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Religious Intelligence A..

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The annual convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in this State was in ses-
sion on Wednesday and Thursday. June Sd.
and 4th., in st. Paul's Church in this place.
We understand that oil the clergy of that
denomination in the State, with two ex-
ceptions, were present, and the delegations
from all the parishes were very full.
The following minute account of the pro-
ceedings and exercises, is furnished for our
columns.
The Missionary sermon was delivered on Tues
day Evening by Rev. Mr.. Webbe, Of Middlebury.
Rev. Mr.. Wadeigh, Of Arlington, reading service.
The Convention was organized and the usual com
mittees were appointed on Wednesday morning at
o'clock. after which Rev. Mr.. southgate, Of
Bratueboro', conducted Divine Service, and Rev.
DR.. Mauser, of Bennington, delivered the Conven-
| ton sermon. The sermon indicated marked abil.
ity, and closed with charge to Mr.. A. D. Spalter
who was to be ordained to the Daconate. The
| Candidate was presented by Rev. A. H. Bailey.
Professor in the Vt. Epis Institute, and ordained
by the Bishop. In the afternoon all the gates
| Of the convention, clerical and lay, were carried
out to the Episcopal Residence and grounds Of the
Theological Seminary, where after visiting tho
site of the future Institution and having witnessed
the progress Of the enterprise, they partook Of
Treatments furnished by the parishioners of St.
Paul's, Burlington.
harmonious meeting Of the Board Of Trus.
tees of the Seminary held after which tho
guests dispersed. Evening service was celebrated
at the church, Rev. Mr. Shelton, of Montpelier,
and Rev. Mr.. johnson, Of Sheldon, reading service,
and Rev. Mr. Hawey of the West Indies preaching
tho sermon. His sermon will ong be remember
ed by its hearers with great pleasure and sdmirs-
ton. Convocation met after service. On Thurs
day after morning prayer, conducted BY Rev. A.
D. Spalter, and Rev. Mr. Randolph, Convention
again met, as also in the afternoon. Sixteen hun
dred copies of the Journal are to be printed, con.
tanning in the Bishops address valuable teaching
relative to the duty of requests to religion. One
hundred and sixty three persons have been con-
hrmed since last years convention. Over thirty
thousand dollars have been secured to tho Semi
nary; an earnest self sacrificing, liberal spirit
towards the enterprise is manifested throughout
the diocese, as we'll as abroad, and altogether the
Episcopal Church in Vermont was never moro
prosperous or in more promising state for tho
future than now.
On Wednesday, May 9th, an Ecclesiastical
Council, called by the Congregational church
in Cuttingsville, Vt. ordained Mr.. Edward
b. Bassett as an evangelist. The congre
cation is made up of several denominations,
Congregationallsts, Baptists and Methodists,
who unite in sustaining Christian institu-
tions, no one denomination being able alone
TO sustain minister.
Rev. Warren Lincoln has closed his
, labors in Chicopee, Mass, and has entered
| upon his duties as pastor of the Baptist
church, Bennington, Vt.
/, The reports of the different officers Of the
Unitarian Association, read at it's recent an
niversary in Boston, show the association
to be in very prosperous condition. The
total receipts during the year have been
!, Sl7,3l2 OS; balance remaining in the treas
ury last year was Sl6O7 40; total for the
year, Sls.6l9 As. The expenditures of the
year have been 7,447 SO, leaving a bal
} ance in the treasury of Sal 50. Its pub
' locations for the last year were twice as
large as the year before, and as much as for
any four years previous to the last two years.
The number of quarterlies is 1880 for the
, year, and the whole number of pages of
publications for the year, was 6, 500 900
The missionaries of the Cape of Good
Hope found, on investigation, that the rea-
son of the eagerness of the Cafirs to obtain
religious tracts was that they considered
them the best wadding' for their rifles
Have not others besides the Cafire reason
for their religious likes and dislikes that
has direct reference to the main-chsnce.