Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-26
RELIGIOUS SUMMARY.

| Kew. Y. ". ElllLSN ldDOfS III luSldAu, az
cording to the British Standard, are proving
'savingly useful" His ministrations are
largely attended, and all denominations second
his efforts and cooperate with him.
Within the year that Rev. Mr.. Eddy has
been pastor of the First church at Northamp-
ton, one hundred and eighteen members have
been added to the church, one hundred of them
! by profession.
The Baptist church at Kenosha Wisconsin,
have excluded from their membership their
late pastor, Ira Smith, for immoral conduct.
There are from 5000 to 5000 interdicted
priests in Paris alone; many of these clerical
outcasts have become either walters or cab
men. nu
AT public meeting not long ago, the Bish-
op of London said that "Sunday schools had
saved the manufacturing districts of England"
The female members of the New England
| Congregational churches are more than three
three times as many as the male members.
A Right Kind of Surprise PreSentdtion.-At
| Ipswich, one stormy evening last week, the
door bell of the Methodist parsonage was rung,
when an individual was found at the door, who,
presenting a small package, hastily withdrew.
! The package contained a beautiful silver COB
let, of the value of some twenty dollars, and
| fifty dollars in bank bills gift to thea pastor
prise without the usual accompaniment of tres
| pass and trouble. The Methodist church in
| Ipswich is enjoying good degree of prosperity.
A Pittsfeld correspondent writes to the Con-
gregationaist: "In the examination of Rev.
| Mr.. Foster, last week. for settlement over the
| South Congregational Church in this town, he
| gave as his highest authority for preaching the
| gospel, his letter as a member of a church.
| The question arose in the council, whether
| there was a vacancy in the pastorate, as MIR.
Boynton, the former pastor, had not been dis
missed by council 1t was decided that va
cancy did exist, as the resignation of Mr.. Boyn-
ton had been accepted by vote of the church
and parish"
The afternoon of Sunday, Feb. 16, witnessed
one of the largest congregations ever as
sembled in the Oxford eng, Town Hall for
religious purpose. The hall will hold from
| 1000 to 800 people, and hundreds went away
unable to gain admission. The opening SER
vice was conducted by the Rev. David Martin
of the Congregational chapel, George street,
and nothing could exceed the decorum and
| fixed attention manifested throughout. The
bulk of the hearers were literally working
men, with their wives and families, and
not a few of that class who seldom enter a
place of worship.
Rev. Mr.. Tuck of Ludlow asked for dis
mission from his people, and council was
| called on Tuesday of last week. But finding
his people united and Strong in their attach
ment to him, and that his ministry there of
sixteen years had been valuable one, the
council was unanimously of opinion that it was
not advisable to sunder the connection, and he
was not dismissed Since the loss of their
church by fire, they have gone forward with
great unanimity and energy, and made ar
engagements to erect new and better house of
worship, and their prospects were never bright
er than now.
There has been an extensive work of grace
in connection with the Presbyterian church at
! Washington, and also at Newport, in Missouri
A correspondent says: eve continued our
meetings for twenty days in one church, and
ten in the other, and had one of the most pre-
cious and powerful reviyals of religion | have
witnessed for long time. The converts
were from II years old up to seventy four.
One hundred and four joined the two churches
| Changes of the Pastoral Relation in the
State of massachusetts, of one thousand
three hundred and twenty -four pastors re-
ported last year. only nine hundred and
siXty-gve are now over the same churches. 1t
is doubtful whether the aggregate pastors of
any other State change less than Il per cent,
including Methodist and all denominations.
A Stockholm letter says: "The chapter of
the cathedral of Whisky has instituted proceed
ings against e2aeh h6 named Rnsh%tzer
propagated Anabaptist errors.
AS the result of missionary labors in South
ern India and Ceylon, more than 100000 have
abandoned idolatry, and more than 5000 are
communicates in the churches more than 500
are employed as Christian teachers of their
! countrymen, and more than II 900 girls have
| been rescued from that gross Ignorance and
deep degradation to which so many millions of
their sex in India seem to be so hopelessly
condemned
Rev. j. I. Tucker of Holliston will sail early
in April for Gibralter and the South of Spain
on four months vacation, for the benefit of
sea voyage to his health. His society contem-
plate repairing and remodeling their house of
worship during his absence
The Church Journal (Epiecopal) speaking
of the revival Of last year, says Never has
any one of the sects received body of new
members so little imbued with its own sectari-
an ideas or attachments. They have acquired
bulk, not strength nay, the increase of bulk
with the decrease of cohesive power, will only
make them tumble to pieces faster than be-
FORE"
Revivals are numerous all over the settled
portions of Minnesota. "At both of my sta
tlouS, writes heV. A. o. Lyon, VIZ: at Cot
tage Grove and at Newport, good state of re-
ligious feeling has been manifest for some time,
and goodly number have found peace In be-
lieying."
There are II Free Will Baptist churches in
Vermont, with membership of 1871. The
church in Starksboro', which is the largest,
has l03 MEMBERS four others have from rs to
100 members each, and the rest have an aver
| are of 33 members each Thnrp aro pr
dained ministers.