Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-02-22

The committee appointed to award pre-
MUM of $500 Offered by the late Rev
Thomas A. Merrill, d. D., Of Middlebury,
Nt) to the author of the best treatise on
The Right Way, or the Gospel applied to
the Intercourse of Individuals and Nations"
have awarded the premium to tho Rev.
Joseph a. Collier, pastor of the Reformed !
Dutch church at Geneva, n. Y. Mr.. Col |
lier's Treatise forming volume of three or
four hundred pages, is now in press, nnd'will |
he issued in a few weeks by the American
Tract Society, the donor having provided, in
addition to the premium, the sum requisite
for porpetuating its circulation by that
Society.
The receipts of the American Tract Society
mp to the first day of February inst, are
about ten thousand dollars in a3rance Of last
year, to the same date The friends of the
Society should be encouraged to roioublc
their diligence.
Rev. Edwin f. Hltfed, who has for TWEEN
~ years been the pastor Of the 9TH Pr3shy-
terrain Church in New York city, was dis
missed on Monday last by his Pres5ytcry to
become pastor of the North Presbyterian
Church, now onterprisa at the upper put
OF the city. Mr.. Hatfield is ono Of the most
laborious pastors in New York, aud hi.
church has been the theatre Of a constant re-
vival since he came to it,
A missionary Of the Presbyterian Board,
writing from Texas Of tho priyations Of some
Of his fellow -laborers in that State says, 90 |
have known acknowledgements mimic
ters-hcre, to live whole weeks without a
morsel Of meat OF any kind and one who
lived on boiled corn for a month 80
The emperor Of Austria has signed decree
relating to Protestants 1t is liberal, exert
in prohibiting the marriage Of Catholj,
priests converted to Protcsiantisn Govern
ment has been already obl.eI to restrain t.,
Italian bishops in their administration Of thD
concordat
According to official reports, published il
the beginning of 1883, the capital of France
with population of 900 600 souls, la
ouly fortys-ix churches besides, they arc mos
unequally divided, The tenth district ha
ten houses of worship for ll4,00O inhabi
tants, or ono to 400 while the iourt
district has only one to $4,000 souls,
At the Anniversary of the Montreal Bill
Society on the Gath ult Rev. NJ. J.. ScudIel
the general delegate of the American Biol
Society, in his a .dress, as reported in tn
Montreal Gazette, remarked
The Bible is unlike any other book respect
jn- the attachment which men have to it
There is no other book of which you may NJ
he surfeitcd. Bat the more you read til
Bible the more interesting are its sicra
RACES 1t is related that when the Pc
Scott, was on his dying bed he slil to NJ
L1ckhart, Bring me the book. OF pJctty
No. 'Of the history which consulted
the preparation Of my own history No
What book Do you ask what book :.
the diving scholar, there is but one book ar
that is the Bible Reference has been ma.
to the circulation of the Bible in the Crime
After giving you all due credit, We can =
that we. too. in the United states have be-.
doing something. vt an carly day we So
out an agent to Constlntlnople. From them
he went to the Crinea. There he found a
French soldiers greedy for the Bible and
distributed among them all his Bibles
Thereby hangs tale.
Some three or four years ago Napoleon 81
the ignorance Of reading among the s)lIio
Of his armies and hired IA teacher fot the.
And what was the first book which he n
them to read 1t was French TRANSLATE
OF the Gospel of st. John. This expln
why the French soldiers were 50 greedy I
the Bible They had been vlccinp:ed vi
that tract. no man having drank oil wi
straightwav desireth new. Iuo Bible p'
ssscs n wonderful Reproductive power. Il
has 50 provided that what is intended for t
phvsicil support of man is endowed with
productive powers. Christ says Tle -
is the Word Of God Behold a sower "
for Ii t. sow