The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-08-08
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

ORDINATION. Prof Charles NJ. Mapd,
of Andover Theological Seminary, wN
he ordained, in the Congl church. in
Cornwall on Friday of this week. 1t is
expected that Prof Park of Andover will
preach the sermon, which will be in the
afternoon, in the forenoon.
The Aroostook (Me) Pioneer says that
peculiar religious movement is making
in Maine, looking to emigration to Jeru-
salem. A bark is now fitting out at
Joncsport to carry the pilgrims to their
new home in Holy Land She is ex-
pectcd to be ready to sail about the mid
die of the coming month. Land has
been purchased near the ancient Joppa,
where it is proposed to make a permanent
settlement.
The legislature OF Tennessee has grant
ed charter for a college for colorcd
people, TO he known rs the Central
Tennessee Methodist Episcopal College
A site has teen secured on the summit
of College Hill, at Nashville, adjoining
grounds of the Military Academy. A
very handsome college building is soon to
be erected. The college proposes to
furnish a general and theological educa-
ton.
The Congregational church in Bristol,
is about to procure Il bell Tor their house
Of worship.
PRESBYTERIAN - The OH School Pres
byterlans have fifty seven missionaries
laborlng among the Freedmen.
Brazil is to have missionary in the
in the person Of Rev. Emanuel \. piez,
a native OF the country WHO has recently
been ordained by the Old School l'resby-
tcrians as an evangelist for tina; work
BAPTIST The .Wo,mng STA, reports
revivals among the Frcew,l Bapti,is IN
Richmond and Knox, Nc, and in STRAIT
ford, \. H.
ETsCorAI--The Rev. DR.. IIuning-
ton has sign.iicd his acceptance of the
office of bishop OF Maine.
The Protestant Episcopal church of
the L. ). A. has sent to the Archbishop
OF Canterbury, resolution passed in
General Convention approving of the
dealing of the English church with
Bishop Colcnso.
CANADA.-Dr. Wilkes of Montreal,
has received from his people thousand
dollars. OF course in guld-as II token
of their regard and their appreciation
Of his long and faithful services.
An institution termed The National
Theological Institute, has been establish
in Washington, ID. g., for the education
OF colorel ministers. Some thirty schools
have been organized in connection with
the Institute, embracing more than four
hundred and fifty students The school
at Washington, now numbering fifty stud
enis, has been incorporated by Congress.
Elegant ExrRACr.-Thc HcYaW Of
Hartford, the RehJ,ous Herald, has the
following editorial notice of the reccn,
donation of Mr.. Mccormick to the insti.
tuions of his native State he gpstiJas,
&c
"Cyrus Mccormick, the rich reaper
man OF Chicago, profound Presbyterian
and "A profound hater of aboltionist and
republicansm, lamenling that the one hun
dred thousand dollars, with which he
some years ago, endowed the Presbyterian
theological School at Chicago, has been
perverted to an anii.negro walloping
Chris ianity, has lately solaccd his solemn
soul and relieved his pockets by cndowing.
with $4,000 in one case and $4,000
in another, theological profcssorsllps in
Washington College, Virginia, of which
Gen. Lee is president, and in Union
Theological Seminary at IIampden
Sydney, same State. These institutions
are warranted to stay put in the good
old patriarchal doctrines so long as any
of the blood of the first families in
Virginia remains uncontaminated with
the Yankee article"