Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-09

VOOoeOck JOnn WeO0S Esq, OuSuU8De
vile.
Tho Directors Of the Champlain Con-
ference, . month or two ago, ssreed to
hold aynsstiDg Of the Ooo8ersnos in
Montpelier somstins in tn. autumn. It
is now ysspssed T. ~ t11snsstins CALI
ed ~ Tuesasy - II aAd > lsttef has
just been received from Rev. RiShmond
Fisk, President Of 81. Lawrence Univer-
|ity, At 0aaAsn, NY, promising to attend
ifpoasible, and preach before the Confer
eace. Br. Fisk was settled for many years
1t Auburn, n. r, over one Of the largest
Universalist Societies in the state and
though quite young, has high reputa-
ton for ability and eloquence. His ser
mon will probably be preached in the
afternoon of Tuesday, the services COM
mencing at 2 o'clock.
The new Green Mountain Institute
(Universalist) building at Barre is said to
be the incest school building in New
England. The rooms are all to be fur
nished alike. The building is to be warm
ed by steam, the apparatus costing &c.,
600.
METHODIST.
AT the commencement of the fall
term of the Vermont Conference Semin-
ary at Montpelier, ON Wednesday, over
800 students were present.
The Methodist Society are building
church ON Main street, West Concord
The building will have basement under
the whole. It is surmounted by beanti-
full steeple, which will be supplied with a
good bell in due time.
The old Methodist Church in Bird
port is about to be remodeled and repair
ed, and q committee has been appointed
to attend to the matter. 1t is intended to
commence the work soon
From the twenty colleges under the
charge of the Methodist Church, not less
than four hundred students are taking
their diplomas. Between onc-tenth and
one-6fth of these design to enter the
ministry. At least one hundred Metho-
dists are graduating at other colleges, Of
whom like proportion will enter the
ministry.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
The French Catholics have COM
menced building their church on Carnar-
Won street, Fairhaven. The foundation
is already laid, and the frame will be put
up next week.
The Boston Pilot says there is pro-
badly not less than one hundred colored
mon now in Rome preparing for the
priesthood, and that the majority of them
will become the teachers of the freedmen
of the South.
DIR. Alemany, the Roman Catholic
Archbishop of California, claims the ex-
elusive control of the Sunday religious
services of the Roman Catholic children
in the Industrial School at San Francisco,
with the right to send clergyman to say
mass for them on Sundays. He claims
SAA"S wv eAAos Va lhC CuiluIeu dTc Va
tholics, and that every Catholics is ''most
strictly bound to assist at the holy sacri-
flee of the mass on Sunday" The Pro-
testant clergy oppose it. ON the ground
that the present religious services are
"broadly liberal" and that sLe proposal
would convert the whole into Roman
institution. Also that, the Ca
tholic parents and people having neglect
ed the children, the State should give
thsm a liberal culture.
Rev. Jacob Abbott, the author,
breaches ut the North Church in 81,
Johnsbury on Sunday, Sept. 18th.
The annual camp meeting of the st.
Johnsbury district was held by the
at Railroad Grove, Lyndon.
vile, last week. The weather was not
favorable for crowd, yet the exercises
were well attended and interesting There
were thirty-fv tents on the camp ground
and Barton each had board
ed house. and Newark and Eden built u
house together, and had thinga all in com
mon.