Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-08-30
Religious Intelligence.

HE tCIuODl IOufNutlOu Va
meets at Morrisville. Aug. 18th and 18th.
The General Convention of the came denoun-
cation win be held in Baltimore, Maryland,
on the 18th September.
Camp Meetings will be held at West
PIattsburgh, beginning Sept. 4th. and at
Essex, NY, beginning Sept Bird.
The General Association of New Hamp-
shi.e Congregational is to meet at Nashua
on the 9th Aug.
Rev. II. c. Leayitt. pastor of the Baptist
church in Swanton, will close his lsbors on
the first Sunday in October
The salary of Rev. VIM. I. Herrick OF
Clarendon has been raised to $500 and the
use of the parsonage.
The Uniyersalists of CastletOn are building
house of worship, and sustain preaching
one half the time.
At Rutland Liberal Christian Society
has been organized, and an effort is making
to raise funds to build church.
Rev. Mr.. Earle has returned from the Pa
c.fc coast after an absence ofC.even months,
and preached in Park Street Church, BOs-
ton. last Sunday. He has visited various
towns IN California, Oregon and Nevada,
and preached over FIVE hundred times
In Derby recently nine persons were bap-
tized by Methodist minister Of whom two
were sprinkled, standing at the waters edge;
some went little way into the water and
had water poured on them as they kneeled
some went in waist-deep and had water
poured on them and some were immersed;
four ways of administering the rite.
The Rev. o. T. Lanphear, graduate of
the University OF Vermont in 1915, has been
invited to the pastorate of the Dane St.
church at Beverly, Mass.
The Congregationalists of California, num-
bering l,43s in all, have raised $4,000
toward establishing Theological Seminary
on the Pacific Coast.
Bishops Coke, of Western, New York,
and Clark, of Rhode Island, protest stoutly
against the tendeE toward ritualisIn in
some portions of the Episcopal church.
Nine missionaries of the American Board
sailed from Boston recently for India and
China. FIVE on the 18th Of Aug. and four on
the 10th. Six more sail to-day from New
York, including Rev. Mr.. Bliss, who returns
to Turkey. He has secured SIS, 600 for the
erection of q Bible House at Constantine pie,
within $4,000 of the sum asked for.
The friends Of the Rev Rowland Common,
who was recently dismissed from the School
Street Uniyersalist church at Boston for
heresy, have organized new religious sOci-
ETY. to be known as the "Fraternal Uniyer-
salIsts,' and chosen Mr.. Conner as their
pastor.
The Andover Triennial just issued gives q
total of l.567 who have graduated since its
foundation, while the whole number who
have been connected with the institution is
gwen at . ,49l. Within the past year q
graduates have died at an average age OF
sixty and half years which shows life of
study not to be unfavorable to health.
The Unitarians having promised to aid midi
gent young men desiring to enter the Chris
tan ministry, the editor Of the Liberal
Christian gets a response, in which the ap-
plicant says: al don't no what sekt of the
relidgus community you want me to preach
to but II at all plesing to you would like to
enter the Babtist minnistery as mi views of
babtism is the same as yours is
The Herald of the llth says that the an
nouncement that the commission appointed
by the standing committee to investigate the
charges pending against the Rev. S. ii.
Tying, Jr., would not meet until September
next. has emboldened many of the most pro-
minent of the Low Church clergy to chal-
lenge the tribunal appointed to inquire If
the complaint should be tried. They are
anxious to have finally settled the question
which involves the right Of an Episcopal
minister to speak or oiHciate in the ediices
Of other evangelical denominations, and de-
clare that IN case the proceedings against
Mr.. Tying result in trial. they will present
certain members of the High Church wing
for rirualistic practices, and demand the
Judgment of the Trcunial Convention on the
whole subject