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Religious Intelligence

Rev. j. i. Rankin, for the past two years
pastor Of the Presby terian church in Pots
dam' ~ Y, has been invited by tho Cong.
society Of st. Adams to become their pastor.
lie has resigned his pastorship at Potsdam,
ana 1t Is understood will accept the call.
Kew Samuel Smith has resigned his pas-
toral charge Of the Baptist church at East
Iiardwick, VT
The Rev. a. ii. Stearrs has removed from
Jamaica, Vt, to Clarcmont, Mass. having
accepted call from the Baptist church in
the latter place
Rev. James 7. Hyde, who supplied the
pulpit Of Rev DR.. Bushnell during his alb
scnce in California, has received unan.
nous call from the Congregational Church
and Society in Middlebury, Vt
The Board Of Trustees Of the Vermont
Episcopal institute, have accepted the le.
gacy OF the late DR. Willoughby, of $40 900
to found professorship and the Rev. A. II
Bailey, of llydepark, las been elected bro.
fcsgor
y revival is in progress in the Seminary
OF Newbury, Vt. About twenty conversions
are noted
The y. I Independent mentions the er.
sstence of unusual religious interest in
some fifteen churches, Presbyterian, Con-
gregatonal, Baptist and Methodist, in
Brooklyn and New York
In Boston Mr.. Finney and Mr.. Dav con.
tinuc their labors, preaching nearly every
evening to large audiences, and reyiyals are
in progress in several churches in that city
and vicinity
Rev. l.. \. Grimes baptised eighteen per
sons last sabbath all OF whom united with
the Twelfth Baptist Church Boston, Of
which hc is Pastor. Into this church up
wardc ninety have been received since the
commencement Of the year In Lowell
good deal Of interest exists in the Third Bap.
list Church, as well as in churches of other
denominations. In the Church mentioned,
81 persons have been baptised during the
last two Sabbaths, and others are..waiting for
the ordinance Some Of the converts ars
young men who have been connected with
'lniidel debating clubs in that city. At
the Northern Street Methodist church in
Low ell last Sabbath, fity-two received the
ordinance OF aptism-torty- three by i'm
merslon and nine by sprinkling. During
the last month seventy have been received
into the church
In Rhode island States Prison, within six
months or more, the ordinary services of the
Chaplain and Bible class exercises have
been especially owned of God and some
twenty-five OF the convicts have been hope
fully converted.
The Rutgers street Presbyterian church.
New York city, under the care of Rev. DR..
hrebs, in iilty-tye years has sent out thirty
three ministers. most of whom are alive and
ministerinG in the Presbyterian Church -
Rev l.. VI. Pelse, the Five Points missionary.
NAork, has been obliged to retire from his
work ON account Of i'll health 1t is estiina-
ted that during the seven years of his mis-
sion five thousand children have been re-
claimed from vice and vagrancy.
Intelligence was received by the Niagara,
Of the death Of the Rev. David T. Stoddart,
Of the HISTORIAN mission in Ooromiah. lie
died after long ILLNESS of typhoid fever.
The HISTORIAN mission in common with the
whole Christian community, will deeply la
mcnt his loss. Mr.. Stoddard revisited hi.
native country in 1915 and did much du-
ring his visit to strengthen the missionary
spirit at home.
We have been called to chronicle within
a brief period of the deaths of several of the
most eminent laborers on heather ground,
among whom were Or. Lobdell of Mosul
En- smith OF Constantinople and also one
OIL the Oldest LnglIsh laborers in China