Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-04

In Liverpool a meeting for business men is
held every Monday. Wednesday and Friday,
from hall past II till half past l, 2. Nj, un.
der the auspices of the Young Mems Christ
ian Association of that town. This move
ment must be considered one of the "signs of
the times and who can tell whereunto it
shall grow
The Ohio State Baptist Convention was re.
Gently held at Granville, Licking county.
Twenty missionaries are in the employ Of the
Baptist church throughout the State, through
whose labors four hundred and seventy four
persons have been added to the general mem
bership.
Rev ]. W. Russell, of Uxbridge, on re-
cent Sabbath, baptized two persons, "a king
the aggregate received on profession a. faith
into the Baptist church, of which he is pas
tor, since the Commencement of the year,
sixty-two,
The First Baptist Church of Cincinnati,
Ohio, Of which Rev. N. Colver is pastor, has
raised $500 to employ missionary and as
sistant, within the bounds of the church.
The Roman Catholics of Cincinnati have
adopted regulation that but six carriages
shall be permitted at funerals.
Rev Mr.. Strickland, an ex theatrical man
ager, is preaching n New York, with spiritu.
al advantage, to numbers.
Owing to continued ill health, Rev. John
Weiss has again rendered his resignation as
pastor of the Unitarian church in New Bed
ford.
Mr.. Henry A. Cook, of the Baptist denom-
ination, who has been preaching with good
acoeptability and success to the Unitarian So
ciety in Westboro', the past year, is about to
m IL III
the Baptists of that place.
Rev. Emerson Davis d. D., of Westfeld,
Mass, is preparing q work designed to in-
clude brief sketch of all the Orthodox Con-
gregatonal churches in New England, from
1920 to the time Of its publication. Such a
work carefully executed, will prove yaua-
BILE contribution to the ecclesiastical literature
of the times.
The Rev. Lowell Smith, pastor of the Sec
ond Hawaiian Church in Honolulu, arrived
from the Sand witch Islands last week Mr..
Smith has labored twenty five years as a mis-.
sionary, witt out once leaving his post. He
has yet to see the first railroad. He visits
our coast to recruit his heath.-Sas Francis
60 Pacific.
Rev. DR.. Chandler, of the North Parish
in Greenfield, recently preached semi cen
tennlal sermon, in concentration of his fif-
tleth year of service in the pulpit. He has
been settled over his present charge for TWEEN
ty-six years.
Rev, h. c. Larned of Canterbury, Conn,
was at his own request dismissed on the
Sd inst, from his charge of the Congrega.
tional Church IN that place, expecting TO be-
come pastor of a church in Berlin.
Rev. q. M. Preston, late pastor in Stur.
bridge, after several months labor in Medford,
has been invited to the pastoral oversight of
the Baptist church and society in that place
Rev. w. H. Charming of Liverpool, Eng
land, now in this country, has received call
to become pastor of the Unitarian church, re-
Gently under the charge of Rev. J. 1. I.
Coolidge, Boston.
Rev. l.. IL. Angler, who closed his labors
last Sabbath with his people at Concord, has
been invited to preach six months for the
new Congregational Society worshipping at
the chapel i'll South Maiden.
new Congregational church and society
has been organized in Falls Village, North
Canaan, Ct, and Rev. Fl. a. Russell, late of
Wlnsted, Is the minister.