Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-09-07
Religions Intelligence.

An Ecclesiastical Council has been called
9th Of September next, for the ordination of
George c. Knapp, G. G.. Torrcy, and Edward
Aiken, as Missionaries to the Heather, under
the direction of A. b. c. +. NJ. Mr.. Torrcy
is a nephew Of Prof. Torrey and graduate
of the University of Vermont, lie is to la
Dor among the Choctaws.
\ camp meeting will be held in the town
of Swanton, three miles south of the Falls,
commencing on Wednesday, September 9Th.
The receipts of the American Board Of Com
missioners for Foreign Missions during the
year ending July, were $50, 427,T1, and the
expenditures during the same period were
S3lS,S93 L. The debt of the Board on the
LIST Of August, 1854, was Sl2,Oi2 ~. BY
the excess Of expenditures over receipts du-
ring the past year, this debt was increased to
.,2O,j07 30 On the first Of the present month.
Fifteen con,icts in the prison at Auburn,
y. Y. were baptiscd week or two since the
convicts having been happily transformed
into converts. Twenty persons have united
with the Congregational church at West
Amcsbury recently, and others are proposed
for admission. The annual camp-meoting in
Montgomery county, Md, has an attendance
oflj,OOO persons and 200 tents are pitched.
Tho Vermont State Convention Of Uniycr-
salists held its Annual Session for 4. d.
I-ji. at Barre, on the Doth and 30th) ult
The general Convention Of Cnivcrsalists in
the United States will hold its next annual
session, in Middletown, Ct, on the 10Th and
Goth of September next.
BArT1s1s The Baptist Bible Society have
made grant of 10 ,000 cheap testaments, for
gratuitous distribution among the colored
people of the South, to he forwarded to any
known individual who will see to their
proper distribution.
An illustration Of summer worship in the
cities is given by correspondent Of the Bos
ton Transcript Of last week, who says, that
out Of one hundred and iortyeight families
belonging TO the congregation worshipring
in Kings Chapel, all are now absent from
the city except twelve
The Mcthodists OF Boston held Il very in
tcresting meeting on the 18th, on the occa-
sion Of the Goth anniversary of the LAYING of
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tine turnover 81 NhuFc") III Nl't city y
collation. was part Of the proceedings, an in
.,rcs,i,, r,o,nr, Of which was tn, presontl-
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Hanover Street ChurcH.
The presentation was made BY Father Tar-
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pastor "s '' ."''"I0 " nun INV ''"Vis'
love feast followed, at winch Key. james
Porter give a history of Mcthodism.
II, rcco,,otod the nro,rcss of Metho1i,,n
and II. o.hiev,mnnts since it's first orrln
;7,tinn in ondon. ON the lst of Nav. l73S.
wh.n lortv or ffty persons agreed to meet
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~ i,n Sr;rturcs and Christian conversational
- VA ,rascnt fine when thcv baye in
c.o,t nr;toin 3II3 effective trovnlliny
,'roochoro G(tecn mr. sixteen thousand lncf1
,.rca.hors and I1G oS3 members in Enc.
f'nJ Iost roor ei3G 500 we're raised for mis.
.inrs marc than is contributed by any other
,i,,,rch nnt,yitLstondino the Wcsj.vans have
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