Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-08
FORTY-FIVE.
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

/, A Congregational church was organized a
= CambridgepOrt, Vermont, April l6. 1868
| consisting of twenty-five members.
Mr.. j. c. McCollom, member of tn,
Rutland county bar, about six months since
lett the legal profession, and commenced
preaching the gospel in Cambridgeport
HIS labors have been very acceptable to the
community. Several cases Of hopeful con
version have taken place. Mr.. McCOllOm
has engaged to remain there for a year from
the first Of May next.
St. James (EpiseoraD Church, at Arling
ton, is without Rector and anxious to Sc
cure one, at 81 900 salary, and parsonage
The Repository says There is a religious so
eiety in Northfeld Centre, of some 80 adult
male members, which was organized about
year ago. under the sounding title of the
- Northern Vermont Independent Christian
and Moral Reform Society,"" by Mr.. D
I. Ross, Of Vergennes. a brickmason by trade.
who went to Mortified as a volunteer itene-
rant.
The Society uses Second Advent singing
books, but its profession of faith is copied
from that prescribed by the Vermont Conyen-
tion of Universalists for candidates enterino
the ministry.
Rev. c. Ransom, who has spent A ministry
Of twenty-six years in Moriah, n. Y. has
engaged to settle with the Congregational
Church at Wadham's Mills, Ny.
Rev Mr. Bramble ofthe New York confer
ence, has been engaged to supply the pulpit
of the Methodist Church Of Bellows Falls.
and will doubtless be ''thorn in the side,
to evil-doers in that quarter.
The Yergennes Vermonter noticing ser
mon preached in that city last Sunday by
Prof Buckham, says
"Prof. Buckham has the rare and enyiable
gift of lively, natural tone in writing and
speaking, combined with simplicity and
cOmpactness Of argument difficult of attain
ment, but carrying with it convincing and
converting power. He cannot preach to an
uninterested audience
We find the results of the late Madame
Feller's Mission at Grand Lgne, Canada,
thus set down:
She arrived in Canada in 1885. In 1886 she
opened a school Of twelve children of families that
If . H. l. : D. IL
TO twenty, and also an evening school
for adults. In 1897, the heat being insupport-
able in the garret where they were held, the ex-
ercises were conducted in i barn. Friends IN
Champlain, Pattsburg, and Montreal built
house, that served for place OF worship, school
house, and dwelling. small church Of sixteen
members was also formed On the instruction
in Canada they left for Champlain, many Cana
dians following them. On their return the mis-
sion increased, and now embraces 40 parishes,
l2central stations, 10 organized churches, en-
ploys 20 laborers as pastors, evangelists, and
colporteurs, and over 1000 persons have been
convinced Of the truth Of the Bible through its
\ great Jewish Temple is going up on
Fifth avenue, New York, belonging to the
Reformed Jews. They believe in organs.
The congregations will sit together in fami-
lies, and not the men and women apart, as in
other synagogues. The leading families eat
nam and oysters, arguing that the prohibi-
ion in the law was sanitary and not moral,
md the question is now being discussed BY
hem whether worship shall he held on Sat
lr,lav or ON the Lords Dav