Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-12-02

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the pleasure d spsading sabbath In
Rutland, VI, and ~ . Hstsasr In the
congregation Of Rev. =. 1fills, ths sotivs
and work-loving pastor u the Baptist
church. Br" Mills Is greatly beloved BY
his people. although he has besn With
them but little over year. The church
has the appearance II fully organized,
well-disciplined army. every one know
ing his post and delighting 70 do bis duty
Under his pastor@te the church has
entered upon now and more vigorous
life. The Lord il blessing his labors there
The Sabbath previous three we're baptized
That day in the morning he preached his
first anniversary sermon.
The now Free viii Baptist church
in Starksboro is nearly completed. and
will be dedicated December 18th, at half
past ten o'clock a. m.
Rev. J. r. Haskins, late Of Kempton
Mich, has accepted call to the pastorats
of the Baptist church in Bellows Falls.
"A Freewill Baptist church was or
ganized in ST. Johnsbury, ON the 10Th
inst, by council called by the Wheelock
Quarterly meeting.
The sixty-sevcnth session Of the
Massachusetts, Baptist Convention brought
out the fact that the first Bap-
fist church In America was built In
Salem. Tho building IL seventeen by
twcnty-feet, and Is still standing.
--Spurgeon took forty 10 fifty children
into his church. last year. He says oui
Of Zoo church members bc has never yet
had TO exclude one who joined when ho
was child.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Rev l.. ii. Byington, late Of Wind.
sor. is preaching for a few sabbaths at
Evanston. Ill.
Two persons united. with the church
in Thetford, by letter, on the 7tb.
Rev Mr.. !Mighill Of Brattleboro, will
preach in the Congregational Church In
Bellows Falls, tomorrow.
The repairs Of the Congregational
house of worship at Royalton, have been
completed. at an expense Of $4,000. and
meetings are now held in it.
Rev James T. Hyde Of Middlebury,
has been elected to the Professorship of
Pastoral Theology and Special Studies Of
the Chicago Congregational Theological
Seminary.
Rev. l.. T.. Wild of Craftsbury, who
on account of ill health has been resting
from his labors, and staying in Brsintree,
has returned to his charge. though still
laboring under physical debility.
Rev. Otto S. Hoyt, for many years
pastor of the Congregational Church at
Hinesburgh. greatly beloved and respect
ed in the ministry and the churches, died
at New Haven, on Saturday. the 18th,
in the seventy-seventh year of his age.
The installation of Rev. Fl. p. V.
Bogne az pastor Of the Congregational
church ina Nergenner. will take place on
Thursday, Nov. 25,h. Rev. George q
Spaulding Of Dover, n. IT,. ia expected 70
preach on the ocsa-ion.
Rev. Asa Billiard Of Boston, Secreta-
ry Of the Congregational Sunday School
and Publishing Society, occupied Rev.
Joseph Chambers desk at West Brattle-
ooro, isst Sabbath week. He stated that
though the church's hired servant, he
pays hi own salary; all the money con-
tribnted being strictly applied TO charit-
able purposes
-Congregationalists have for a namber
of years past given over $4,000 per an
mum for educational work in the South.
The Church Union, now under the
editorial charge of Henry Ward Beecher,
has changed its name TO the Christian
Union.
quarrels between his parishionert' and
makes sermons on them-fction foun ded
on facts. with no names given.
The Congregational churches in Mas
saehusetts raised, last year, for the Home
Missionary Society, $4,000, $4,000 Of
which was expended in the State. The
Home Missionary Society established "a
ne churches, and rendered 90 self-sup-
porting. LAST year.
METHODIST
Six per-ons were admitted into full
connection with the Methodist church al
Richford, sst Sunday.
The good people OF Fletcher have
pledged the money and are soon 10 erect n
church. to be owned. one half by the
Methedists. and one-half by the Bapiists
The Methodist chapel at Essex Gen.
ter, Vt, was re-dedieated on Wednesday
of last week. Sermon by Rev. +. p. Ray,
Presiding Elder. The chapel has jus,
been thoroughly remodeled and re-fur-
ni-hod inride, and newly painted outside
The Methoii-,s and Baptists have
been holding meetings nj the school
houses in the vicinity Of East Greensboro,
for he past few weeks, and their labors
are rewarded with quite a revival. There
Is talk Of building church ont Of funds