Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-15
NeiigiOus Intelligence,


twentieth anniversary Of the Presd.
Doar1 oil foreign Missions was held in
-New YORK on Sunday evening. The receipts
oil The Society for the year have been s2O5,-
'oo' ana the expenditures S2ls $50, being
| the first time in its history that a debt Of
any considerable extent has been incurred.
i"ir'y-t"o missionary laborers have been
sent out during the year Nine others have
been appointed Connected with the mis-
sions are Y ministers, l32 assistant mis-
sionarles from this country, 69 native help
efs, % schools and ,2s4 pupils; 81 churches
and $40 COMMITMENTS
Hannah Corcoran was recently reoaivaj
oack into the bosom Of the Roman Catholic
church at Charlestown, her leaving which
about five years ago was tho occasion of 50
much excitement
Rev j. 7. Gooihue was disnissej st Iis
request from the change of the Congrega-
tionai Church in Shoreham, April 29th.
lie has been Pastor there nearly twenty
five years.
The late Hon. Josiah Burton, of Man.
chester, Vermont, bequeathed the following
sums to the religious and benevolent socis.
ties named below, as follows -
500 to the American Bible Society
Sooo t9 the Am. Home Missionary Society.
Sooo to the Vermont Domestic Missionary
Society. $500 to North Western Branch
OF the American Education Society. $500
10 the a. q. {. +. Missions. $3.50 to the
American Tract Society, n. Y.
A wealthy merchant of New York. in
order to induce an increase of students for
the ministry, offers to pay $500 a year.
from one to four years, towards the support
oil every man Of suitable qualifications, who
Will agree to devote himself to the work of
the gospel ministry, at the end of the stipu-
lated time, without reference to creed or
sect. t.-Amos A, Lawrence of Boston has of.
fered the American Sunday school union
5 $1,000 year for AL indefinite poriod, if the
union will Immediately send Sunday school
to labor in Kansls.
The salary Of Rev DR.. Chapin, pastor of
the Broadway Unvcrs4li3t Society of New
\ ork, has been raised TO $4,000.
Rev. Henry Ward Bcechor has taken up
the glove thrown down by DR.. Bellows in de-
tense.of the stage. Mr. Beccher delivered a
lecture on sunday evening, which is sketch.
ed as follows.
"Mr. Beechcr strongly advocated the no.
cessty ofenarging the sphere of legitimate
amuscments and recreation for the Young.
hut he denounced tie theatres as calculated
only to delnoralize and to do mischief. His
arguments were manly directed against the
theatres as they have hitherto been conduct.
ID. lie admitted that theoretically the
irama was not evil in its aims and prinoi-
pies yet he maintained that practically il
was rAdiatlng centre OF yico and dissina.
ton, and could never O.. lAAJo otherwise.
however much 1t might he reformed Even
were II possible to coutcml late its reg,n.r-
'tlon, 1t must still from its very mature.
liways be the ready gate and open way by
'hich the young ard the weak would be
einpted to moral destruction lie spoke IN
he severest condemnation Of Dr.. Bellows
nd the principles he had Put forth in this
onnection. The movement he thought.
vas Ca alculated to swell the crowd already
hronging the popular avenues of dissolute.
ess ana vice to an extent which no rciorn
i the drama would ever compensate for "