Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-26
RELIGIONS SUMMARY.

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Central Congregational church, of whom 90
are heads of families, and sixty members by
profession and twelve by letter to the Winter
street Congregational church. Three hun
dred have been received into the three Bap-
list churches 19l into the two Methodist, on
probation; and 40 into the Episcopal max
ing In all 669 accessions to the Evangelical
churches in that city"
Quite a religious interest prevails in some
parts OF Guilford VT. linton meetings have
been held, and about fifty conversions have
taken place. AT Manchester, Vt, about one
hundred and fifty have united with the differ
ent churches in the town, and, more are looked
lor The work ofreligion is reviving in many
% the towns in Windham county.
very interesting work has been going on
III ID tne First Congregational Society in Frank
IN, N T., under the pastorate of Rev. 5. z.
MARVIN, and about one hundred and fifty con-
versions have taken place.
During the past year, Rev. ]. w. Healy's
church in Gardner Mass has been visited
with work OF grace. 1t has resulted in fifty
persons being gathered into the church. The
Sabbath-School has increased one hundred,
ana the debt on the church of three thousand
dollars, has been paid
A letter from Pittsfield saws, yesterday
was an interesting day to the Baptist church
IN Pittsteld. Our beloved pastor Rev. Dr.
Porter, gave the hand of fellowship to forty
SIX persons, forty-two of whom he baptized
during the past four weeks. OF these, TWEEN
ty-1ve were heads of families and twenty-one
were blooming youth. Twenty more are ex-
pecting soon to follow Christ into his church
through the baptismal waters. Our pastor
stated that the church now numbered 500
members"
Within the past two months there has been
an unusual religious interest in London. A
series of meetings has been held at Bethesda
| Chapel, which has been filled to OVERLOOKING,
ON Sabbath evenings, not less than four thou
sand being present. On Sunday evening,
january I6, nearly four thousand persons were
present in St PauPs and Westminster Alb
hey, Exeter Hail. and St James's Hall, were
crowded to OVERLOOKING.
| The religious influence pervading the con-
! gregation of the Methodist Church on William
| street, Baltimore, on Sunday, the 18th, was
such that the services were protracted from IL
O'Clock in the forenoon till 5 in the afternoon.
! The Catholics are beginning to hold meet
ings in public halls in New York. in which
their laymen take part-an innovation that
may produce serious consequences in the
Catholic Church.
A revival ofremarkable power is in progress
| at Aberdeen, Scotland. 1t is stated that such
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there.
There are in Vermont 104 Baptist churches,
with an aggregate membership of 1921, an
average of 70 to church. The aggregate is
third less than it was twenty years ago
The largest church is at Fairfax, numbering
266 members. -Four other churches have a
membership of 200 and upwards, and twenty
have between 100 and 200 members. Ten
churches receive aid to the amount of 81 ,625,
from the State Convention. The number of
ordained ministers is SO.
Professionalism in Frunce.-The Annuaire Pro-
testant for 1859 contains the following inform
alton The Reformed Church of France pos
sesses los consstories, 1915 places of worship,
Of which 926 only are churches, and 1139
schools. The Lutheran Chnrch possesses Al
consistories, 403 places of worship, of which
| 344 are churches, 95 of which are submitted
to the Simultaneum Act Ghat is serving both
for the Protestant and Casiolic Worship, and
500 schools.
There are 81 Freewill Baptist churches in
| Vermont, with a membership of 1911. The
church in Starksboro', which is the largest,
has 1913 members four 6thers have from rs
] to 100 members each, and the rest have an av-
erage of SO members each. There are AZ Or
dained ministers.
The Baptists in Great Britain and Ireland
RE largest carch u Papk sEee 81
London, the renowned Mr. Surgeons which
has 1046 communicates
Pdlestine-NumJer of Je,cs.-According to
DR.. L. A. Frankel, there are now 1859 He
brews in the Holy Land, 5000 in Damascus,
$50 in Beirut, and 24O in other places.
About forty years ago, at meeting of the
German publishers in LEIPZIG, a respectable
Jew, also publisher in the grand duchy of
Baden, presented himself to be admitted as
member. There was great difficulty and
few only Of the members would give their con-
sent to the admission of Jew into their socie-
ty ; however, at last he succeeded and was re-
ceived. What change has taken place since
that time, when the leader and President of
that same society now is Jew, the celebrated
DIR. Felt of Berlin
Rev. Uriah Clark publishes the Spiritual
Register for 1852 containing the statistics of
the new sect. The estimates are made Gin
round numbers" and are not assumed to be
very exact. The actual Spiritualists in the
country are estimated at million and half;
the nominal Spiritualists at four millions /;
public advocates, four thousand mediums
forty thousand; places for public meetings,
one thousand; periodicals, thirty schools,
three and several humanitary movements
and associations.
That good man, the ateRev. d. G. Grafton,
suggested that churches in praying for a min
lister, should be sincere, and pray for just what
they wanted. Their Lltany in such case made
and provided he would have run somewhat in
this fashion 30 Lord, send us another under.
shepherd, Who shall be able to go in and out
before us-a man of pleasing address-of good
personal appearance, neither too tall or too
short--too fat or too lean-having hair neither
too light nor gray-a scribe well instructed,
but not given to doctrinal preaching-a man,
in manners a gentleman, and in spirit slave"
The Rev. DIR. Cunningham, the successor of
Dr. Chalmers in the chair of theology in the
Free Church College, Edinburgh, has been
presented with the sum of f6 500, (S30,0009
subscribed mostly by gentlemen in Edinburgh
and Glasgow, in Acknowledgement of his SER
vices in the Free Church. Dr. Cunningham
was at the same time presented with service
of plate. The entire subscription amounted
to $500.
George Candee, of Mckee jackson county,
Kentucky, writes to the Independent that he
is preaching there, at all his appointments,
against slavery, intemperahce, and all other
forms of sin, just as unhest.tingly as he could
in Oberlin, and only in one place has there
been any attempt to interrupt him. There
are only five or six slaves in the county,
though a majority OF the people are pro-
slavery.
ANOTHER MoRTARA CAsE.--Itappears from
the Genoa papers that a servant girl of that
town, emulous Of the fame of the maid (ser-
vant) of Bologne, who baptized young Morta-
ra, committed the same offence upon young
jew, Leone Levi. The parents of the Child,
however, prosecuted her, and she was SEN
fenced to fifty scudi fine and six months i'm