The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-10-17
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE,

Rev. Mr.. Hyde Of the Congregational
baths Last Sunday the pulpit WAS occupied
in the forenoon by Rev. DR. Edredgs of Conn,
and IN the afternoon by Rev. J. Steele of Mid
dlebuiy.
SPRITU LIST Mrs. A. /: Brown spoke in
the Court House last -undny and was to speak
again on Tuesday evening Of this week he
will give an address at the school house in r.
Wrg IS district in ornwall next sunday,
and at East Nidlebury Oct 18th. Subjects St
lected by the audience.
Rev WIN. F. V. Bartlett. of Brooklyn Y,
has receive! n unanimous call to he pastoral
of the South Congregational society in Concord,
n II, as the successor Of Rev. II enry +. Par
ker, now Professor of Latin in dartmouth
C olege
The Congregational society sat Brighton,
Mass are about to build a church elifce ; and
they have extended a call to Rev. d. 7. Pack
ard, who has just closed his labors at Somer-
yille.
Rev. Mr.. Abbott, a graduate of Middlebuly
College in 1888, late pastor of the Congrega-
tional church in Bristol, n , diel at his es-
idcnce in that place on Thursday evening, sept.
10Th
RELIGIOUS IS1EREsr.-A powerful religious
revival has been in progress in Natick, Mlassr
for four or five weeks. II. +. Durant, Esq,
has been addressing the un.,n meeting there
on sabbath and one weekday event 3, and
sometimes speaking Sabbath morning in the
di iierent evangelical churches. From one to two
hundred persons are inquirers and many cases
Of conversion are reported, some OF them from
ranks Ct men not easily reached.
The General invention Of the Unversalists
met Oh September 18th at esburg ILL., Til,
meeting was not so largely attended as had
been expected. The Missionary ommittee re-
ported that Instead Of the ..l01, 900 which last
year Convention had resolved to raise, only
STOOD had been received, mostly in New
York. A series Of resolutions, embracing one
IN favor of impartial suffrage, was UNANIMOUS
ly adopted.
AMERICAN BIBLE UNION. This Society which
has prepared and pu lishe Btptlst transla-
ton Of the New Testament, held its 18th an
nual meeting at the First Baptist Church in
Broome street last week. The Treasurer re.
port showed an expenditure for the current
year of s ,770,S6 AID the gross cash receipts
from all source amount to $40,0l2 y.
EPIsooPAL In the 81 States and Territories
OF the Omitted States there are now laboring
missionary bishops an 202 other missionaries
The report closes with an ear lest ap2 peal to the
Church to supply for the current year the
sum Of 100000 to meet expenses that are GER
tain to be pressed before the en- I of the ysar
The House Of bishops Of the Epis;opll church
at their recent session in New York erected the
territory of Montana into a Missionary Diocese,
and chose as first Bishop thereof the Rev. b, S
Iuttle' Of Morris, N. V This gentleman has
rare qualifications for this field Of labor, but is
probably the youngest clergyman ever elected
to this high office, being not yet quite thirty
years Old.
CHINESE JEws-There is a colony of few
hundred Jews living in KaefungfOo, the ,pital
Of the province of Poonang, about ! 900 miles
northwest of shanghai, in the midst of Mo
hammedan population, by whom they me sub
jected to every kind Of trial and indignity.
They are in the most abject poverty, which
has seriously threatened their extinction
Learning that they had valuable manuscript
copies of portions Of the Old Testament, Bish-
OF Smith sent some Chinese Christians to Fro
cure them They succeeded in purchasing six
Hebrew scrolls, which on examination proved
to be complete copies OF the Hebrew Peu;a.
touch.
The manufacture Of Unitarian ministers is
not very brisk the Cambridge divinity school
has min students and expects tire more |!
Meadrille has 10 new students and IS in all