Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-05
RELIGIOUS SUMMARY.

| of the people of England In Ireland, too,
Professionalism is gaining so rapidly from the
Catholics as to excite the alarm of the Pope.
The Corning journal of the 18th ult., states
that Rev. Z. b. Smith, who has been supply
ing the pulpit of the Baptist church in Corn
ing for nearly year, lately resigned his charge,
in consequence Of views concerning immersion
and close communion. He has been received
into the Presbytery of Chemung.
The Theological Seminary at Bangor is now
calling upon the churches in Maine, by whom
| it has been adopted, and to whom it belongs,
for pecuniary aid. 1t is interesting to know,
that, at the same time, it is paying back, in
| something better than money, for what it re-
ceives. Within the last few months, no less
than eleven of its alumni have been settled,
either as pastors or stated supplies over church
es in Maine.
The receipts of the American Board for De-
cember were S24, $50. Massachusetts contrib
uted S4647 of the sum-a much smaller pro-
portion than usual 2,26S is from Worcester
More than eight thousand dollars were received
from Connecticut, which takes the lead this
month The Board has received, all told,
| $4,753 as thank offering from recent converts.
Forty-fve thousand dollars have been con-
tributed for Andover Seminary, for the re-en-
dowment of the Professorships.
1t is officially announced that National
| Sunday School Teachers Convention will be
held in Philadelphia, on the 22d day of Febru-
airy next. Each evangelical Sunday School in
| the Union is invited to send at least one dele
gate.
The Centre Congregational Church in Hav-
erhill, numbering 260 members, lost but one
by death during the last year, and that one by
old age. In all the congregation beside, there
three other 10 his tlyn of wi
infants, and one a little child.
Mrs Dolly Everett, late of New Ipswich
n. H., bequeathed $4,000, and her homestead
to the two Congregational churches in New
Ipswich, to become theirs when they shall be-
come united into one church.
The First Church in Dorchester, Rev. Mr..
Halls, has subscribed 81 200 towards the re-
moval Of the debt Of Antioch College Ohio.
DR.. Pratt, in writing from Marash, in North
ern Armenia, speaks Of the great change
which five years has wrought there He says:
Last Sabbath nineteen were received to
church fellowship, making the whole number
96-all gathered in four years. | saw a sea of
600 faces before me five years ago the most
was go, The community now numbers 900
Protestant souls; then it was less than 40.
A revival is going on at Nicetown, Penn.
Rev. Mr. Richards baptized six on last Sabbath
afternoon, in the presence Of about thousand
spectators, and other candidates were detained
in consequence of sickness in their families
The Westinghouse is crowded to excess every
Sabbath morning and evening, and the meet
ings through the week are largely attended.
At Mahomet, ILL.,, Rev. W. r. Combs has
just closed a deeply interesting meeting in his
church, during which they received upwards
of twenty additions, which make $40 additions
to the church during the past twelve months
There is a great revival of religion in the
Baptist church at Phenixville, Pa. Thirteen
have been baptised, and many are ready to go
forward in that ordinance next Sabbath A
large number are under deep conviction for
sin.
The history of the turning to God among
the Karens, it has been said, reads like the ac-
count OF PentecoStal conversions in the Acts.
There are now $4,000 church members among
Them They have received the truth with
great readiness.
1t is estimated that Seyen thousand persons
have listened to the preaching in the Newark,
IN. J.) Theatre, in the five Sunday afternoon
services thus far held and that, of these,
fifth part, at least, not in the ordinary sense
ofthe term, church-goers. Many of them have
not seen the inside of church for many wears
DIR. Jewett writes that there are now t,oenty-
MAN Mission, and nine in the Southern In the
former, church of seven members has lust
been organized at Yozgat. The Sabbath au-
dience there averages SO.
In Boston there are about seventy deaf
mutes, who meet every Sabbath in the Com
mittee Room of Mt. Vernon Church. Three
or four OF this number are now anxious for
their souls salvation. They talk wholly by
signs. They appear devout and intensely in
terested in their services.
Conversions are multiplying in Boston, and
new openings are being made in different parts
of the city.
There are now t,oenty-tiyee missionaries in
the employ of the Boston City Missionary So
ciety They hold fifty or more neighborhood
prayer meetings weekly, and have under their
care number Of mission schools.
Forty eight persons have lately united with
the Baptist church in Lowell.
The meeting at Globe Hall, Boston, is still
thronged, and the word of God seems to be
taking effect.
The National Theatre is about to be opened
for preaching Sabbath evenings.
In Philadelphia the word of God is revived
with new power. The places of meeting are
becoming too strait, and they expect soon to
be obliged to remove into larger places than
tnose now occupied.
In New York city also the work is revived
afresh.
In Pittsfeld, Mass, God has again revived
His work, and about sixty persons have lately
been converted.
In a village in Vermont dancing hall has
lately been converted into a place of PRAYER.
The proprietor and wife were both converted.
AT the celebration of the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the settlement of Rev. Samuel Os-
good, DID, over the First Church in Spring
field, it was a noticeable fact, that the musical
performances were conducted by Col Solomon
Warmer, who offcia ed as chorster at Dr.
Osgood's ordination. The DR. stated that,
during his ministry, there had been added to
the church ,257 members. One hundred of
them joined in 1885. He had attended 1875
funerals, and 844 marriages, and ofiiciated at
800 baptisms of children.
Rev. A. L. Stone preached sermon last
Sabbath morning, commemorative of the 10th
anniversary Of his settlement over Park Street
| Church, Boston. Nearly 700 persons have
joined the church during this period, it was
stated, and there has been dismissed to other
churches, 150 The present membership is
between nine and ten hundred, and the society
is in very tiourishing condition.
Mr.. John r. Thurston, graduate of Yale
College, and of Bangor Seminary was ordain-
ed on the 10th ult., as a junior pastor of the
| Oldtown Church, Newbury. Rev. DR.. With
ington, the senior pastor, has been settled over
the church forty three years.
The blessing of long and unbroken pas
torate-that Of Rev. DIR. Train, in Haverhill,
is realized in an enlargement now maturing
into Second Baptist Church. Of the new
society. Rev. Benjamin Wheeler, late of Ran
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