The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-03-28
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE,

THIS being Passion or Holy week, there
are services each day at st. Stephens
church, at 10l A. NJ. and 4 Z. NJ, ex-
cept on Thursday evening, when the SER
vice will be at : o'clock.
There will also be service at the Cath
Ole church Of this place on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, at 0 o'clock A. NJ.
Rev. l.. H. Stone has removed to Paw
let, Vt.
The revival interest throughout the
country appears 10 be increasing.
The General Congregational Conven-
don Of Vermont will meet in June, at
Newbury, instead Of Windsor.
o. 5. Murray, shot recently at Cincin-
natl, was formerly Baptist preacher,
residing at Brandon, Vermont
The Congregational church of Enos-
burgh, Vt, recently adopted the following
resolution
R'sol,ed, That carrying milk TO the
cheese factory on the sabbath, is viola
ton of the command to 'sanctity the Sab
bath
Much interest has been aroused in Paris
b. the eloqucnce OF Il monk, Father Hya-
cinthr, who has preached repeatedly to
audiences of $1,000 persons at Norlre
Dame.
1t is reported that no less than 800
pulpits in New England are vacant for
want of proper support, and that 500 are
so poorly supported as to yield barely
subsistence to the clergy.
The Assistant Treasurer of the Ameri-
can Tract Society makes an urgent appeal
to its friends for ten thousand dollars, to
meet the present applications from mis-.
sionaries abroad, to enable them to carry
on their work.
1 he pastors of the various churches in
Brooklyn, panied at the growing and fla
grant neglect of the Sabbath day, held a
meeting last Monday to consider the best
means TO check the evil. Among Other
plans adopted is the preaching of dis
courses on the subject.
The census gives the basis for an est
mate of the cost of sustaining the various
churches, to their individual members
A Baptist or Methodist, 81, 40; Pres
byterian, Sc; Congregationalist, SO
a Roman Catholic, Sl4 an Episcopalian
S19; a Reformed Dutch, $50 Uni
tartan, S23.
The annual missionary collection wa
taken at ST. PauIs (Methodist Episcopal
church, New York city, ON Sunday weel;
amounting to ten thousand dollars one
thousand one hundred and fifty of whicl
were contributed by the Sunday-schoo
connected with the church.
We learn that quite a revival has bee
in progress in the Congregational churcI
at West Rutland, Rev. Mr. Grout pastor
Some thirty conversions have occurred
and the church and society there seem t.
be made up of active, living members
The revival influence continues to exis
in the Congregational and BAPTIST churche
in Windsor. In the Congregations
church nearly a dozen have mani
tested desire to seek the Saviour, and il
the Baptist fourteen have accepted Christ
while others are enquiring the way O
eternal life.
The Catalogue Of Auburn Theolo,ica
Seminary, shows the following number O
students Senior Glass, Il; Midd
Class, II; Junior Glass, II; Total, 40
The population of Rome, last year, wa
207, 1913. In the distinction of classes
ecclasiasties and students are put down a
4,6Gl nuns and novices, with their pu
pills, 4,Sl7 soldiers, 1881 nom Catho
lies, 4S7 Jews, 1850; condemne
prisoners, 32l.
The prospects of Professionalism in Spa
are small, though frightening. A Pro
'estant cemetery has, for the first time
been consccrated in Madrid. Manua