The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-04-11
RELIGIOUS INTELLIG ENCE

quarter before eleven a. NJ, and in st.
Stephens church at l0d A. NJ, and p.
NJ. Services will also be held in the Con
gregational church Of Weybrdge at the
usual hour.
SABBATH SCuooIn-T'he monthly con-
cert Of the Sabbath school in connection
with the Congregational Clutch in Mid
dlebury, last Sunday evening, had a very
full attendance and showed the healthy
condition of the school. The Supeiin-
tendent, Rev. Mr. Steele, made the state
ment that the average attendance in the
school during the month was IA.
Rev. G. w. Emerson has been engaged
as acting pastor at North Brooklield,
commencing last Sabbath.
The churches in Burke, Essex, Lyn-
don, Milton and Waterford, are in want
OF pastors
Every church in Orleans County, cx-
cept one, is now supplied with preaching,
state of things which has not occurred
before within the memory Of 'the oldest
'nhabitan:."
Rev. DR.. Drake of Royaton has been
able to preach for the last four SabbathS,
but does not dare at present TO con inuc
to do so. Mr.. Morley, Of the present
Senior class at Anlover, has been cngag-
ed to supply his pulpit during the vaca-
ton.
The church in Bethel are building its
outer walls. The Sabbath school has
been largely increased, and about $1,000
subscribed for repairing the house.
Within the past year the church and
society in West Rutland has contributed
$1,000 TO benevolent objects, raised nearly
$4,000 for an organ, added $500 to the
salary of the pastor, Rev. ii, NJ. Grout,
and made him cash donations to the
amount of $500, to say nothing of fuel
and other valuables. A good record.
Rev. j. X. Chase, for the past eight
years settled over the Baptist Church in
Romncy, N. H., has received ana accc It.
ed call to become pastor of the Baptist
church at Hydeville
The next General Convention of Con-
gregational Churches and Ministers will
be held at Newbury in June. 1t was
previously appointed at Windsor, but the
churches at Newbury and Windsor have
arranged to have it as now stated.
A rienary Council of all the Roman
Catholic Archbishops and Bishops in the
country is to assemble this year at Balti-
more.
A Roman Catholic Tract Society has
been established in New York. under the
auspices Of the Pauist Fathers Branches
will be established in all the large cities
of the Union.
The Troy Annual Conference will meet
at Cambridge, n Y, on the 18th inst
Bishop james will preside. On the Sab
bath a grand and solemn pageant will
take place. The bones of Embury, the
first Mcthodi,t clergyman in America,
and the founder of the oldest landmark of
Methodism in the country-the old John
Street Methodist church, New York
will be removed from Ash Grove Gene
terry, where they now repose, to the
Cambridge Village Cemetery.
There is great religious awakening in
the Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist
churches at Saratoga Springs, the result,
it is thought of the union meetings held by
them during the winter,
In the course of the present year a
National Synod of the Roman Catholic
bishops of the United States is to be held.
Archbishop Spalding of Baltimore will
preside
The Episcopal Diocese of Florida has
withdrawn from the General Council
of The Protestant Episcopal church IN the
late Confederate States, and reunited
with the church in the United States.
The General Council" we believe, con.
ssis of the Bishop Of Virginia.
Ralph Wells, the enthusiastic and
eloquent advocate of Sunday-schools in
New York, recently stated the follow in
fact, which was told him by friend, to
whom Daniel Webster related it -
"While Mr.. Webster was visiting
Thomas Jefferson at his home in Vir-
Ginia, and overlooking the valleys of the
Blue Ridge from the portico of his dwell
ling, he sad to him, MIR jeff rson,
what is to be the hope of this country? 2
A.H,er bordering little, he replied, Mr..
Webster, i.f this country is ever saved, it
is going to be by raining the children for
Jesus Christ : and added with remarka-
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