Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-01-16
Religious Intelligence.

The new Congregational church recently
erected at Island Pond, was dedicated on
Friday, the 81 inst. The services were Of n
solemn and instructive character. The en-
fee which is capable Of seating 800 persons,
has been built entirely from contributions
/ gathered through the agency and the infu-
ence Of Dea. Charles Cummings. Of Morgan,
VT, and has cost about $1,000 The different
clergymcn Of Portland, Ne, have arranged
to supply the pulpit the present winter.
The site Of tins village was wilderness
when tie railroad WIS opened there 1t now
| contains some 10 families
At a recent meeting Of the Caledonia
County Bible Society the sum of sos Sc was
reported as contributed to that cause in that
cou during the past year.
There has been, we learn, a considerable
attendance upol the Il" spir itual' discourses.
which have been delivered for several Sunday
afternoons and evenings past at Concert
Hail. through medium, Mrs MS Townsend,
y text Of scripture usually forms the basis
Of the remarks. I he names of the spirits from
whom the communications profess to come is
not commonly given. The doctrine taught,
if we understand it Alright, superseIes the
Bible and the most fundamental teachings of
christianity, but inculcaJes the necessity of
a moral life in order to progression in the
next li!c,which is represented as simply con-
tinua!ion of this in somewhat different
form.
We have revival intelligence from many
sections Of the country, and from all denom-
nations. Ia Philadelphia, it is reported,
seventy, mostly Sabbath School scholars,
were added to the First Reformed Church, Of
which Professor Wyle is pastor.
An interesting revival Of religion is in
progress in Yale college, and twenty or more
of the senior class are among the converts.
Tie new church of the first parish in West
Cambridge, Unitarian, was dedicated on
Thursday, New Years day. \ pleasant
feature of the exercises the participation
in them of the clergymen of all the other
denominations in the town.
The Puritan Recorder sums up the stats.
tics Of evangelical religion in our country as
follows Over thirty thousand working min
listers of the gospel, sustained by four millions
Of COMMITMENTS, and heard bv sixteen mil
lions of church going people. Church prop
erty, seventy millions; religious contrbu-
tions, twenty four millions per annum.
The Mcthodists of Philadelphia are about
30 build ian itinernting chapel, to be moved
from one part of the city to another, accor-
ling to the necessities of the people.
Rev. Asa Bullard, of the Massachusetts,
sabbath school society, has been collecting
statistics to refute the common saying that
the children of ministers and deacons are
worse than other children. lie finds in 24l
antilles of ministers and dcacons ll64 chill
lren over fifteen years of age, and of these
I I, more than three -fourths, are hopefully
'ious, while only II are dissipated.
The clildren's subscriptions for the mis-
ionary ship, Morning Star, have reached the
um of 500 600, an excess of $4,000 above
cr cost. The ship has been reproduced IN
lass models, for which Sabbath schools pay
. each,