Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-11-06


New London Association ........-.2T 694
| New Haven A. ISOLATION, ............l6 sos
| Total, ......................1l5 2447
The summary of the Vermont General
| Convention, says the Chronicle, presents the
following Churches 100, destitute Al mIA-
listers 2l0, of which there are pastors 81, stat
ed supplies rs, without charge so, licentiates
10; church members 1921, of which there
are males 5 ,405, females 10, 307 There are
also 2,476 absentees, which would increase
the total to lS,453. Admission for the year,
7l5 by profession, 400 by letter, total 1920;
removals 81 baptsms, 33S infant, 257
adults, total sos. Sabbath school members,
1898; average congregation worshippiDg on
the Sabbath 81 ,0l6, which, divided by 100
churches, gives the average OF Ill each.
The Lee street Unitarian Society in Lowell,
contemplate calling Rev. John d. Willard,
the well known lecturer of Still River NJ as
sachusetts, to be their pastor, Mr. w. has
preached for them with great acceptance since
the resignation Of Rev. Mr.. Harcher. His
sermons are among the best, Astounding in
fresh and vigorous thought, and striking and
beautiful illustrations.
Nea0 Congregation. Second Unitarian
Society has been formed IN this city, and the
Rev. Charles j. Bowen, late of Kingston,
Mass, has been chosen Its pastor. Where
best known, MIR. Bowen has, we learn, en-
joyed high reputation for liberality of senti-
ment and religious fervor, and for his elo-
quence, moral worth, and Christian fidelity.
Such qualities will be appreciated in this
community. Baltimore american.
Rev. ]. R. Walker of the First Congrega-
tionul Church, Holyoke, preached three
years sermon October 18th, stating that the
average attendance had increased from I55 to
265-in the Sunday school from 80 to 49,
The church has made net increase OF 80
communicates, and in the three years has
paid off floating debt of 5000.
Mr.. John S. Bachelor, a graduate of An.
dover Seminary in the class of sc, was or
dained pastor of the Congregational Church
in Jahrey, N. H., on the goth ult.
Mr.. Elias Mason was dismissed from the
pastoral charge eff the church in Natick on
Monday last. He is to be installed as pastor
of the Mystic Church in Medford, on We'd
nesday, the 10th INST.
MIR. William Mckinley of the last class at
Andover, has been engaged to supply the pull
pit Of the Congregational Church in Shrews-
bury, for one year.
Rev. s. H. Merrill of the Bethel Church in
| Portland has received a unanimous call from
the church in Southbridge, Mass.
! The Rev. F. Grove, the laboriDus and
! pains-taking author of history OF Central
! America, the best that has been written, and
missionary for the American Bible Union to
I Central America has recently been expelled
by the government from the State of Saliva
dor. His crime was the establishment of a
| school.
The First Unitarian Society in Boston, of
which Mr.. Thayer was formerly pastor, has
now been more than year without a settled
clergyman. Mr.. l.. ]. Fletcher, a lawyer,
formerly Uniyersalist clergyman, supplied
their pulpit last Sabbath but one. Thus we
see the law and the gospel for once in harmo-
ny.
More than one thousand petitions for pray
er, sent into the Fulton street meeting, New
York, the past year, have been preserved in
a scrap book. They have come from all parts
of the country, and some from foreign coun-
tries.
Al the Fulton street prayer meeting, a few
days ago, it was stated that a colored woman,
devoted to her Saviour, in her humble, ear
nest way, determined to select twenty of her
acquaintances, and pray earnestly for their
salvation. She kept her resolution, selected
the twenty, prayed without ceasing for their
conversion, and subsequently had the blessed
satisfaction Of believing that they all had en-
braced the Saviour.
The Boston Baptist Sabbath School Union
held its twenty ninth anniversary at fremont
Temple, last Sabbath evening, George w.
Chapman, Esq, presiding. 1t represents
twenty schools, 452 teachers, and 1878 schol-
ars. The report estimates that there are $500
children in Boston, under sixteen years oil
age, who attend no Sabbath schools.
At the laying of the cornerstone of the
First Baptist Church, in Newark, N. j., DR.
bowling said "a few years ago there were
but 1900 Baptists in the State now there are
in Newark alone over that number
Rev. II. 6. o. Dwight, missionary at Con.
stantinople, writes soliciting aid from the
American and Foreign Christian Union, in
supporting a missionary and teacher among
the Roman Catholics Of Constantnople. HI
|. thinks the field to be one that offers great en-.
couragement.
Rev. Mr.. Starkie of st. Paul's Church, Al.
bany, on returning from Europe, found hi
high-church notions to have been so canvass.
ed in his society, as to cause considerable feel
ing, and therefore, without warning or apol.
ogy, or explanation, he walked into thu
church last Sunday morning, and announced
to his people that he could no longer be then
pastor, and then retired, leaving them with
out the usual services OF the day.
A student of the Allegheny Theological
Seminary proposes to other theological stu
dents OF our country to form company
of twenty missionaries, to set sail for CHM
in the Spring Of 1860.
Fifty thousand dollars and upwards hav,
J been subscribed for the Rev. II. W. Beecher'
church in New York. The highest subsorip
ton was $6O00 the lowest S the first tina
a little boy had ever earned. widow lad,
in Wrentham, Mass, sent So.
The anniversary of the Philadelphia Youns
Mems Christian Association was celebrated il
Jayne's Hall on Tuesday evening, and wal
attended by five thousand persons. Tho AS
ISOLATION now numbers nineteen hundred ant
twenty-five members-an increase of sever
hundred and twenty during the past year
and has library of two thousand, sever
hundred and eighty-three volumes.
Died, at Berlin Heights, Ohio, September
10, 1858, hev. q. W. Butler, formerly q
Now Hampshire. Brother Butler was lon,
known in New Hampshire as an earnest anc
faithful gospel preacher OF the Baptist demon,
nation.
The Pilot has a long and elaborate edltoria
J on the withdrawal OF the Rev. J. l. I. Coo