Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-03-15
Baptist Convention, are requestad TO d.
rect to him at Bristol,

There Is au increasing religious IN |
terest 10 the Baptist church in Windsor, |
of which Rev. S. X. Dexter Ia pastor,
Fourteen have been converted and 9th.
ers are auxlously inquirlng what they
must do to be saved, Meetings are held
through the week
tn, American Home Missionary So
ciety acknowledges Tor the month OF
January, from Vermont the sum OF
Sl95,9 90 $685. from the third Congre-
gatlonal church o, Burlington, and
Sl57 from The sabbath School OF the
Congregational church at West Rutland
Vermont contributed to the Amer
lean Bible Society during the month OF
January, $4,000. The whole amount
of the receipts of the American Bible
Society for the month Of January were
s73,544,17
There are probably very few, II any.
towns in New England so well supplied
with church accommodations or where
so large percentage OF the whole pop
ulatiOn attend public religious worship,
| as in Povincttown, Mass. That town
has a population of $500 and church &C
commodations for $500. There are five
Methodist churches there, and they are
now building new one which will cost
$4,000.
Bishop Potter Of New York is in
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clergy. Two of them have lately ex-
changed with nom Episcopal clergymen
the very offense for which they were
disciplined about year ago. There is
also difficulty on the opposite wing,
growing out Of new hymn book pre-
pared by Rev. Morgan Dix Of Trinity
church, in which characterization
and the worship of the Virgin are in
CulCated, The evangelicals call on
Bishop Potter to save old Trinity from
being carried over to Rome.
The title OF the bishop whom the
bishop of Capetowu is about to conSe'
crate. in place of Bishop COleusC, will
not be the bishop OF Natal but the
bishop Of Pietermarit2burg,
An effort is to be made IN the Brit,
ish parliament for the adoption OF mea.
sures to restrain the excessive devel,
Opement Of ritualsm in the Church 0.
England One object is to secure 3 !u(
Ter attendance on public worship.
THE SOUTH.
The venerable DR. Breckiuudge ~
Kentucky has issued an appeal to Pres
byteriaus throughout the United States
in reference to the reelection of com
missioners to the next general assembly
He says For myself, | look upon tht
} present troubles in our own and all sis
! ter churches In this country. as being
{ little else than the sinful continuation
} and working in 3 religious form, Of The
criminal spirit and designs OF the in
surrection in temporal affairs and
am persuaded that neither the country
nor the church Of God can have peace
or aecurito until the religious poison is
healed or purged out
"A COZ respondent of the Christian
, Register UNI tarian) thinks taat liberal
theology is not likely to nverspread tn,
. ! South but that St Louis, Louisville
and Baltimore will be the outer line o.
posts Of the denomination, The fact is
he writes, Unitarianism is looked at not
only as northern, but Massachusetts
idea, and that is enough. Unitarians,
he thinks, have suffered too much from
Massachusetts ideas. You may get
Unitaranism into Charleston, if it come
from an Englishman but not if it come
from a New Highlander
REvIvALs.
ReviVals increase and are heard from
all over the country. Western papers
say there has been no such excitement
since 1858. There is unusual religious
interest at Pttsael, Mass, and a large
number of inquirers. There have been
twenty-five conversions at South Will
berham, under the labOrs of Mr.. A. W,
Bennett, who is now holding successful
revival meetings at Monson.-Three
hundred persons have been convert cd
at Corning, n. Y, recently, and about
as many at OwegO. There have been
many aCCessions 10 the churches at CO.
hoes N. y At Jacksonville, ILL.,, the
Methodists are experiencing q powerful
revival and over It hundred CONVEX
SONS are reported.
The Methodsts regard this general
revival interest as being in answer to
prayer which was offered in all their
churches on the first Sabbath in Jan
uary for the blessing Of God upon the
centenary year.-The New York Chris
tan Advocate and Journal says "For
the last three weeks we could have near
ly filled the Advocate with revival COM
municatiOus, but have been compelled
for lack Of space to give them in the
briefest possible form" A Correspon-
dent Of the same paper says that with
in the bounds Of the Hoston conference
in East Tennessee, recently organized
by the Methodist Episcopal church, of
members that belonged to the southern
Methodist church, eight thousand at
least, have professed conversion aud
united with the church, and the work is
still progressing, In Towanda, Pa. the
revival is so powerful that the places Of
business are nearly all closed, and law
yersr doctors, merchants, mechanics, the
rich and the poor, are equally interested
and laooring to promote the work. In
! Indiana and OhiO fba wayr; Wi 10 1850.