The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-05-09
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Sr. STEPHENS CuURCu. - Thursday
next, the 10th inst, being the anniversary
of the Savior's Ascension, morning service
will be held in this church, with sermon
and the Holy Communion, at To- O'Clock
Il. m.
There will also be service in the Cath
Ole church in this village, tomorrow,
Thursday, at 10 o'clock, a. m.
Nine persons united with the Congrc-
gational church in Middlebury last Sab
bath, three on profession OF faith.
There is now more attention given to
the subject of temperance in Ncymont
than there has been since before the war.
Six recent graduates of Midhlebury
College are settled pastors of churches
near Boston, Mass. Why don't bur Yer
mont churches offer inducements which
shall retain our promising young men
among us!
There are twcnty-sevcn chaplains in
the navy, Of whom l / are Episcppalians,
6 Methodists, 5 Prespyterians, 4 Baptists,
and ! Congrcgationalist.
In Connecticut parish subscription
paper was recently started for the SUPPORT
of preaching, and laid first before \he
minister for his subscription, as a mem
Der of the parish. lie subscribed $50 ;
no other one subscribed as much. His
pay that year was less than $500, inclu-
ding his own subscription.
The oldest church now existing in
this country is one near Smithfeld, Isle
Of Wight county, Va. 1t was built in
the reign of Charles l. between the years
! 1890 and 1855. The brick aud lime
and timber were imported from England,
The timber is English oak, and was
framed in England.
The Baptist sisterhood throughout the
United States are at work in raising
one hundred thousand dollars. The ac-
ton is simultaneous from Maine to
Minnesota. 1t is in response to the APP
peal recently made 10y the Home Mission
Board for money to aid in educating col
ored Baptist preachers in the Southern
States.
The Board of Directors of the Baptist
Convention of Vermont, also of the
Northern Educational Union, will meet
at Chester, May 1G at one o'clock p. NJ.
The American Baptist Missionary
Union received from Vermont during the
month of March the sum of 1912 %, OF
which $50 was contributed by the Bap-
fist Church in Brandon, and $50 by
F Dea. Samuel Griggs of Rutland.
The amount raised for missions by the
Methodists within the bounds of the
Vermont Conference, the past year, was
IS, 100 SO, being gain over the receipts
? of the previous year, OF 81, l55 IS.
The Boston Gospel Banner announces
that Sylvanus Pickard, who recently
died in that city, and who had been a
liberal friend of Tufts College, Univer-
saliSt,) at Someryille, Mass, left the resi-
due of his property-amounting to more
than 100000 proftably invcsted-to
that institution.
The Unlversalists are now holding q
conference at Cleveland. The subject
OF the meeting is to devise means for rails
ing certain sums of money-S100, 900
for the endowment of Lombard College,
in Illinois, and S25, 900 for missionary
purposes-and to promote educational
and missionary enterprises.
Princeton Theological Seminary grad
uated filty-three young men last week.
This was one of the largest classes ever
graduated at Princeton.
There are six churches now existing in
Boston that were founded in the seven
teenth century and eleven that wero
founded in the eighteenth century.
II. f. Durant, Esq, of Boston, the
lawyer preacher, is only layman not
having been even licensed to preach.
The American Board of Foreign mis-
sions has 2iO native preachers and 500
other native helpers in connection with
their missions.