Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-29
Religious Intelligence.
Rev. F. c. Williams, Cougregatonalist,
breaches at Hydepark.

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breaches at Hydepark.
Rev j. G. Wilson has accepted cal
90 80 rs-,--atc cf tho Congregational churcl
h stoae Rive
heuswai religious exists in tn,
Methodist Socioi5 % ia. and also a
uaabJ borough
There ar' how ftarteaa loigegationa
eAtreh IS % NcHrsta oo was formed
CO.'S yaa
fha of oIege ,nl collegiat,
insiimtis uppored aai He'd by tn,
Methodist denomination inc.
Tho f-st convention oi gregationa
churches ministers. SOD -s of tn,
-oaia, eas holi Noyrmaa and 20, al
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Tho Ecclesiastical Council, called al
Greensboro, Dec. Is, to consider the question
of the dismission of Rev. 4. w. Wild, de-
clined to advise a dismissal.
The lecture.room of the Congregational
church at Middlebury has lately received a
fine piano, with seventy hymn and tune
books.
The Rev. Germont Graves late rector Of
lions Church, Manchester, has accepted a
call to the rectorship Of St. Luke's Church,
Cambridge, n. Y.
Rev. Alfred Stevens, Congregationalist,
was ordained and settled pastor February,
iS43, at Westminster West where he is now
laboring. During this long and successful
pastorate, he has been prevented only three
times, by illness, from preaching on the Sab
bath.
The vacancy in the standing committee
Of the Diocese of Vermont caused by the
death of DR.. Hicks, has been filled by the
election Of Rev. DR., SWEET and the commit.
tee have recommended to the Bishop for ordi-
nation to the Diaconate, Mr.. james o. Drumm
and Mr.. Henry NJ. Wright late ministers in
the NJ. Il. Church
A fair has been in progress through the
past week in Middlebury, under the auspices
OF the Catholic church. There has been a
large attendance of tho Catholics from Mid
dlebury and surrounding towns, and the fair
has been success There must have been
between $4,000 and 81, 900 raised from sale |
Of articles given to the fair. SO says the
Register.
Rev. y. b. Hurlbert, whose dsmisson
from the Congregational pastorate, at New
ven, was recently announced, came directly
itHa andover Theological Seminary to that
n.noa apd he was ordained October 20, 1859.
During Us 'stry of a little more than ten
YEAR 1oe la4fted and scventy-four persons
rare uait0i iie church, all but thirty
ssfe His departure from our
aate i ue rac ted by many. and their
hest wishes w' end him to his new field
= 'a,or 'a ser rsey.
-thc f..soyrerians especially the New
school, have for a year or two past been very
active In Kansas, where they have, within
eighteen months, grown from one presbytery
to synod, and from two ministers to thirty.
The union Of the Old and New School Synods
will give about seventy ministers and church
es. As many as twenty Presbyterian church.
es have been organized during that time.
The statistics for the year, of the Epis-
eopal Church in this country have Just been
completed, and show 80 dioccses, 81 bishops
and bishops-elect, 2,7ll presbyters and dea-
cons, 2,5l2 parishes AZ new churches conse.
Grated, 29,529 baptsms, of which three
fourths were infants, 20793 combinations,
lS5,9l5 Sabbath school scholars reported
s4,205 ,2O9 contributions reported, and about
100000 communicates in the whole Church, |
as judged from the report of l76,6s6 in 33 |
dioceses, Of which 90 show an increase of
1886.
~,
Disnop Oiark once met a female parish
Toner on the street whom he had not seen for
several weeks. HIS cordial greeting was met
py rigid reserve on her part lie inquired
the cause. She replied, 81 have been sick
Tor three weeks and you did not visit me
snrrv 10 haar ~, W. W. 'no u''noP' an
10 have nhvs;o;an ~ .. yOt .N enousn
svar,, 40, !, H. A., It,a'",y NC oa'no
s;oL ~ c -; nv Auo" you were
III, ..T.no !, a,,a.'a.aI ~, -" "aS no' 70 20
yo,, had son, g.. n,a 7 ,ro,,IS - o'.aI, ""u !, :,
rho ,,o;,,, ~ a. .,'aaao.a na'0 oon. W.
coon r., ,,oo,,a 's. ~" poss,oiy ps
the ;nat,ep,;an &c tSs;r nas,oSs ''P'"" VI
There has been quite an awakening of
evangelical interest in Paris lately. re-
union of all evangelical pastors had been call
cd, and active and aggressive measures had
been decided upon to reach the population of
faris with religious influences. English
christians have for some time been working
IN mat direction and have done much good
but the French pastors have not heretofore
oeen 50 iuliy impressed with the Importance
o. this WORK, vi late however, they have
peeh awakehed 70 the necessity OF more effort
IN the same direction and Il was decided at
that sort 81 co,nor,a .'v,S pai. y, 'he cry ;
~. y, Nv'P'i'ase "o'h shouiu DC cohi-