Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-08
THE FREE PRESS,
RELIGIOUS Intelligence.

FRIDAY MORNING. MAY Z. ls57.

IN Norwich, Vt. in place Of Rev. A. q.
Pease, dismissed on account of ill-heath.
Rev. j. p. Huntington has closed his la
bors at Newlane and Marlboro, vt and
has accepted unanimous invitation to be.
come pastor Of the Blptst church in Lon
donderry
The New York Anniversaries com.
mence on Sunday, May 10. Tho
Tabernacle being no longer available,
there has been much difficulty in finding
suitable places for the meetings The Bsp-
tist Societies, which met in New York last
year hold their meetings this year in Bos.
ton.
The last religious service in the Old
broadway Tabernacle was performed on
Sunday evening last. The building is to bs
torn down to make room for other struet.
ures
One hundred ana fifty members Of the
Young Men Association Of New York, in
Guiding Prof Crosby, Drs Ferris, Spring.
POTTS. Dewitt, and other clcrgymen of note
have Withdrawn from the Association -
AT recent meeting, the resolution of
Prof Crosby, prohibiting the discussion of
the Slavery question at the meetings, was
rescindej and the $50 reslgnations wasths
result. One hundred and thirty new can
didates for membership have been proposed
to supply the vacancies thus left
The Young Mems Christian Association
at Montreal has publicly Withdrawn from
the confederation of Christian Associations,
on the ground that they cannot fellowship
that kind OF Christianity which does not
equally embrace "all Christian young men,
irrespective Of cate, class, race or color"
The Investigating Committee of the
American Tract Society have agreed upon a
report 1t is understood that they have
agreed that the past course Of the Society
has been an erroneous one, ard that ne
cessity exists for digniGtd, but decided act.
ion against the national sin OF slavery
Ihoy will make report in harmony with
this view. The lnlependcnt and the Chi.
caso Congregational Herald call for a spec.
ial meeting of the Society in July or Au.
kuSt' " NI7Cu5s the report,
lhe Journal Of Missions gives tabular
statement OF the amounts of contributions
to the American Board for the last SIX years.
The total amount for that period is 81, $50.
50S' oi tins Vermont contributed $40, ,93l.
All the slaye holding States together con.
tributed S4i,326, or - COS less than Yer.
mont alone. If the whole amount of dona-
tions be divided into one hun,lred parts. il
will be found tA.t less than three of thes,
parts were received from the savehodinp
States Of the Union, nearly four from for.
eIsn lands, more than six and half from
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, eight from
the Western States (of which nearly four
were from OAio.) near twenty-three from
New York, thirty-ona from Massachusetts,,
and twenty-IOur and half from the other
New Enslnl States, making from all New
hnelani, t'ty-dye and half. There has
been, for this period, in most Of the States.
nothing like steady increase Of contriLu-
uons, though the wants Of the missionary
work urgently call for this The nearest
approximations to such u steady increase
have been in illinois, Michigan, Maine and
Massachusetts,
The American Bible Socety-which is
the first Of the religious associations max
ing reports OF its condition this Spring
has had most prosperous year For the
year ending 3lst Of March, its receipt.
were S44l, sos, which exceeds by nearly
S49, the receipts Of the previous year
and it has distributed 40 600 COPIES of tho
Scrlptures, an excess of I9S 600 over tho
previous year, Contributions have como
in from every State and Territory in the
Union. New York contributed nearly one
third of the entire funds-namelv, $40.
rs Massachusetts, furnished S4s, ,22O;
and next on the list we find Illinois, s37..
S4j Pennsylvania, S3O,l7l Ohio, s2s,.
33l, Connecticut, SIS, ,4Cj; Maryland, SIS.
29l : New Jersey Sl4,Gll and Virginia,
$lO,Sj7.
In Boston on Sunday last Ralph Waldo
Emerson supplied the pulpit of Rev,
Theodore Parker, His topic wa.
American Character Neither prayer
nor singing constituted any part OF the
services conducted by Mr.. Emerson.
Considerable talk has been made in New
York and Boston during the past week by
what is called in the hea iings of the News
paper articles, the differentiation of the
Pulpit and the Stage" Rev. Mr. Bellows
of n \. and Rev. +. +. Hale of Boston,
well known Unitarian clergymen, have been
discussing boldly and freely the question
OF public amusements, and defending the
theatre, as legitimate and useful form OF
such an amusement OF course neither
gentleman denied that there might be i'm
moral and injurious influences attending
tile theatre, but they maintained that there
was nothing essentially wrong in the Stage,
or that should place the theatre under the
ban Of the Church. Mr. Bellows discourse
was delivered (hy request) to an audience of
1900 people in the y, Y. Academy OF Mt.
sic, the proceeds, at 50 cents admission, being
for the benefit of the Dramatic fund
Whatever may be thought of the position
OF these gentlemen, it does not seem to be
bad sign that distinguished clergyman has
been requested by an association of actors
to address them on the connection of their
calling with morality,
y Prolific liEN-The Woodstock Stand
ard makes an item of the fecundity Of hen
owned by Mr. II F. Royce of that town,
which, besides the usual number of " COM
mon-sized eggs, has shelled out since Feb.
last ten double-yolked eggs, weighing four
to the pound, and one pair of good sized
Siamese twins of eggs without shells.