Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-01-23
RELIGIOUS 1nteIIiarnte.

APPEAL OF THE AMERICAN BoARD.-S. L.
Pomroy, Secretary of the American Board Of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions. has issued a
circular, giving the reasons why the contributions
for missionary purposes in the year 1857 should
reach the sum of $3.50, 900. He says that as the
missionary system expands, the expenses, also,
must increase. A reduction of expenditures can
only be made BY disbsnding schools, stopping
the press, dismissing native helpers and recalling
missionaries. While the estimated cost of the
year 1857 viii be about $3.50, Ooo, the present
rate of receipts give promise of little more than
$500 600. In view of this fact, the pastors of the
churches are requested to lay the subject before
their various congregations and members OF
churches are called upon to adopt some well con-
sidered plan of systematic benevolehce, and give
as God has prospered them.
To the children and youth who have built and
sent forth the missionary ship, Morning STAR
he says -
The schools for the children and youth in the
missions, cost about $4,000 year. Now we
have divided this School Fund into 1--WE hundred
thousand shares of ten cents each. If they
should all be taken, then we have the $50 ,00o.-
We ask, then, viii not our young friends, the
stockholders in the " Morning Star" and others.
just put their little shoulders to this great wheel?
An advance of twenty per cent. in the dona-
ton viii give the required amount.
A New RELIGIOUS SECT IN FRANcE.-Forty
six persons belonging to the religious sect of the
Morniers, kind of Methodists, were tried before
the Correctional Police of Lyons on Thursday,
for having held meetings in defiance of the or.
ders given by the authorities. 1t appears that
the Morniers, who are distinguished by the Sc
verify of their religious doctrine and discipline,
are spreading rapidly in France, and reckon
amongst their members many rich and influential
persons. In Lyons magnificent chapel has been
erected at the expense of rich merchant and
viii shortly be opened. The Morniers wished to
hold meetings in the commune of St. Bel, in the
reimbursement Of Lyons, but the authorities re-
fused their permission and expressed their suspi
ciohs that some political object was intended
The Morniers, headed by preacher named
Charpiot, nevertheless met in prayer which led
to the present trial. The prisoners were defended
by NJ. Belmont, the eminent member of the
Paris bar, but were condemned by the tribunal
each to fine of 16 francs and costs-Charpiot,
their spiritual head, being fned;8OOO francs.
PREACHING IN THEATRE.-Recent English
papers report that a fresh and novel effort has
been made in Ipswich, England, to bring the
gospel to the ears of those who will not visit the
Church of God Rev. Isaac Lord, dissenting
pastor, has held a series of meetings on Sabbath
afternoons, in the theatre, which was densely
crowded with masses of people who were mostly
strangers to the sound of the Gospel. The at
tention of the people was earnest and uninter-
rupted throughout the service.
70 1t is said that on the Feejee Islands from
$4,000 to 10000 are daily brought under the di-
rect teaching of Christianity and into close con-
tact with the word of God. The grass has gown
over the ovens where human victims used to be
prepared for food, and thousands assemble every
Sabbath day to hear words whereby they may
be saved.
70 The Christian Messenger hears " from
private sources of revivals in progress in various
parts of the Troy and Vermont Conferences, and
of an extensive prevalence of the revival spirit
where conversions are not yet reported'
90 In a late synod at the west, four Choctaw
elders were present, sitting as members Of the
higher ecclesiastical courts of the Presbyterian
church. Such fact is well fitted to awaken
gratitude and joy in the Christian heart.