Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-09-18

Religions summary
Rev. Rush K. Shipper will preach at the
church of the Unity, on Sunday, Sept. 18th.
The annual session of the Wachusett As
ISOLATION occurred with the Baptist church in
| Baldwinville on the 8th and 9th insts. The
session was more than usually interesting
very harmonious and profitable. Rev. K.
Brooks was appointed moderator, Rev. l.. E..
| Wakefield, clerk and Lewis II. Rrsdiord,
ESD. treasurer. The letters from the church.
es were deeply interesting, and breathed a
| spirit of gratitude in view of the manifesto
| ton of the grace of God in the conversion of
sinners and the quokening of Christians.
One hundred and ten have been added to the
| churches by baptism during the year, more
than in any one OF the last fifteen years.
By the minutes recently published it appears
| that the whole number Of Congregational
churches in Connecticut is 2S4; whole num-
Der CONSOLIDATED, 245; churches having pastors
III; churches having stated supplies, 50
vacant churches, 6S whole number of church
members, IS, GO9. The two largest churches
are the. first church in Hartford Rev. DR..
Joel Halves, pastor, and the first church in
Milford, Rev. iona. Brace, d. D., pastor.
Both of these two churches contain the same
number Of commitments, viz: .JGUe hm1ared
andJftty.
Eight thousand conversions among children
were reported by the Methodist Sabbath
schools Of the Philadelphia Conference for the
past year, equaling about one-half the num-
Der in the entire Methodist church the year
preceding.
The African Methodist church of the U.
S., which is of recent date, already numbers
10000 members and 800 ministers. 1t owns
Wilberforce University near Xenia, Ohio,
where their Bishop, Payne, resides. The
buildings have cost 500, 900.
1t seems to be the mission of the Beechers
generally tn stir up the theological world.
Rev. Charles Beecher, the youngest of the
family, settled over parshl at Georgetown,
is accused, in the Puritan Recorder, of utter
ing heresies from his pulpit, one of which is,
that the sinner may repent and God may for
give him in the future life. He is also oppos-
ed to the use of creeds, believing that they
tend to suppress inquiry and the consequent
intelligent comprehension of the truth, and
he incines to his brother Edwards doctrine
of pre-existence.
The AnnuaI Meeting ofhe Franklin Baptist
association was held on Tuesday and We'd
nesday of last week, at Shelburne Falls.
Cheering intelligence of revivals came up
4lOth oCNClbl Vi tue tuuECu6ss Inc largest
accession by baptism was to the Sheburne
Falls church, to which seventy were reported
as added. Fourteen were added to the
Greenfield church, and ten to the church at
Conway. The revival spirit was manifest all
through the sessions of the association and
the expectation was often expressed that the
work is to go forward with yet unwonted
power.
The ninety-second annual meeting of the
Warren Or. ID Baptist Association was held
on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 9TH and
Sth, with the First Baptist church, Provi-
dence. The association was organized by the
choice OF Rev. DR.. Wayland, moderator, and
Rev. VIC. Richards, clerk After the trans
action of the usual business, the letters from
the churches were read, from which we com
pile the following statistics number of church.
es reported, So; added by baptism, l,34l !;
added by letter. 1913; added bv experience,
ll6; restored, 30 dismissed, 22l; excluded,
Al dropped, 1876 died. So; total number,
6,93S net gain over last year, according to
minutes of 1919 962. The reading of these
deeply interesting letters was intermingled
with prayers of devout gratitude and thanks
| giving to God, for the wonderful work of
| grace which has been wrought by his power
| throughout all the land. Rev. John Iilling-
| mast, VI w Gbb 0iE6AWlCUy gave an interesting
| account of the wonderful work of grnce
which had taken place in that town. The
church which last year reported a member
ship of Ill, has just doubled its numbers
In almost every house in that sparsey settled
district, the scriptures are read, and the voice
OF prayer is heard around the family altar.
The English Wesleyan Church is one of tn,
largest and most efficient religious bodies
known in Protestant Christianity, and theil
foreign missionary operations exceed that o
any other Protestant missionary board, the
annual receipts surprising those of the estab
lished English Church. The receipts of the
Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society for tn,
past year were over 5000, O00-and those o
the Domestic Board 100000. A million o
dollars have been spent within the four pas
years for the extinguishment of chapel debts
$l.O50,0OO for erecting new chapels anC
school buildings during the ssme period
During the past year %, 900 church member
have been added, and 100 young men hav
been offered for the Christian ministry. los O
whom have been accepted by the Conference
Many OF these young men are said to be mel
of rare promise. The most remarkable is tn,
son Of Rev. J. G. Moulton, who is an M. A
of the London University, who had success
fully competed for the gold medal, the high
est honor awarded by that University, an,
whose attainments in biblical criticism ar
stated to be very great.
The Boston South Baptist Association he'll
its tenth anniversary with the Harvard stree
church. Boston, on the 9Th and 9th inst Tn
annual sermon was preached by Rev. ]. Til
son, from Phil. 2: 5. The whole number O
baptisms for the year was 7O7, and the net
increase in the membership over 600. On
new church was added to the body, tn
Fourth street church of South Boston, an
one church, the Needham and Dover, for
feited its membership, having failed to repor
its condition by letter for several successiv
years.
A writer in the Christian Allocate an
Journal says that there are at the presen
time between seventy and eighty clergymel
in the Church of England alone who are con
verted Jews.
Bishop Doane of New Jersey has forbidden
Rev. Richard a. Garden OF Philadelphia {
oficiate in the diocese of Philadelphia, be
cause during recent visit to Cape MAY h
invited Methodist clergyman to assist hin
in the admiration of the sacrament.
1
A DARING FEAT.-We learn by the Hart
ford papers, that a liberty pole standing 4
that city, erected by Colt, and said to be tn
tallest in the State, has been without fla
for while, the hallards being broken. !
being desirable TO have 1t in trim at the tele
graphic celebration, young man name
George A. Pollard offered to climb it. III
pole is reported to be nearly 200 feet high
and wonderfully slender, being only 10 niche
at tho base, and 1-2 at the TOP, and III