The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-06-20
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The Rev. Dr. Bi,scIl, Rector Of Trinity
Church, Geneva, ~ Y, and form lly OF
this State, preached last Sunday in St.
Stephens Church in this village.
The Congregational Churches of Addi-
son County contributed, for benevolent
objects, during the year ending May /,
1856, as follows -Bridport, S2lI4t;
Bristol, SIG; Cornwall, S3l41l; Fer
ri'bnrg, 81; Mildlcbury, 800 % :;
New IIavcn, 2309j2; Orwell, SjG3 G5 :;
lipton, 5000; Salisbury, sol; Shore
ham, 4lS2 s.; Ncrgcnncs, S32S % +;
Wcybridgr, %lG2 lG. Total, -, 1856 43.
OF these sums, about $775 wee given
TO Foreign MIs,ons $40 to the Hon,
Missionary Society, and SGl5 TO assist
the Freedmen, and little more than
$500 TO the Tract Society. Other causes
received smaller sums. Only four of the
Churches gave contributions to the Bible
Society, aggrcgaling only clOO10 Only
half the Churches gave to the Cuncrcoa-
ii5nal Union; their contribution amount
ed TO Sl73ll. Only one Church re.
mcmhrrcd the Education Society; an |
only on, the Mis- ion, among Sailors.
The contribution. for benevolent objects
average about 40 per cent. on the Grand
Lit Of the Societies, where asccrtalncd.
In Bridport, they averaged SILL to
each resident mcmtcr; in Bristol. 81
in Cornwall, 50 90; in Fcrri.burg. 81 60:
in Middlcbury, S2G2; in New Haven
Sis; in Orwell, S397; in Ripton.
81 SO. in Salisbury, s 02 in Shorcham,
SlGS; in Vcrgenncs, $2OS; in Wcy.
bridge, $500.
Mr. NJ a. Munson was ordained pas
tor Of the Congregational church in Pitts
ford May 3lst.
Bishop Hopkins will soon publish a
history of the Episcopal Church.
The Champlain Association of Uniycr.
salists will meet at Willi,ton, June 9th,
and hold two days.
OPEN COMMUNION IN ENGLAND
Open communion, it is said, is making
rapid progress among the Baptist church.
es in England. We find it stated that
the denominational colleges existing there
are, with scarcely an exception, presided
over by open communicates. The ma
tuTal result is, that the graduates general.
! II hold to the free views of their instruc.
tors and still further, the churches
holding TO close communion, which arc
now receiving the ministrations of those
graduates, and which will continue to dc
so, will ultimately embrace the views o.
their pastors. To counteract this grow.
ing tendency TO liberal views regarding
the Lords Supper, some of the English
Baptists purpose to found new college
for the education of their young minister.
on strictly close communion principles.
UNITARIAN MINISTERIAL STATISTICS
There are in this country three hundred
and forty recognised Unitarian ministers
OF whom two hundred and two are EN-
ployed as stated pastors. OF these fifi,
have hsen settled within year, or one
fourth of the whole number, and three
fourths have been settled less than fer
years OF the whole number only thirty,
three, or one-sixth, have been settled
above twenty years and two have beer
settled fifty years, 1t is easier to regre
frequent changes than to prevent them,
The Annual Meeting of the Addison
Co Conference Of Ministers and Churchei
was held in the Congregational Church il
this place Tuesday and Wednesday o