Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-01-21
He will sead, it is now expected, early in
February, at the Rutland Opera House.
Religious Intelligence.
BAPTIST.

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Rev. Mr.. Barnaby, Baptist minister
at Hardwick, 81 years old, has not missed
sermon nor meal for 40 years.
A Baptist minister in Texas, grad
uate of Brown University, received but
5000 last year for the support of himself
and family.
Elder Knapp the widely-known
Baptist revivalist, has settled perma-
nently at San Diego, California.
The Church of the Disciples, or
Complexities, includes 100000 members,
las churches in dozen States or more,
! a quarterly review, fifteen monthly mag
azines, nine newspapers, and six colleges.
In Boston and vicinity where, but
| about fifty years ago, there were but ten
Baptist churches there are now forty-nine;
most of them large and prosperous.
-Rev. p. w Fuller, of the Baptist
church in Troy, in his New Years SER
mon, announced that he had preached 1877
sermons in North Troy and Jay, during
the past year; officiated at eight funerals
and three weddings, and had made 10
pastoral visits with prayer, and that %
had been added to the church, II by bap-
tism and by letter.
Rev J. G. Lorimer of the Baptist
church in Newport has been presented
with 800, by his Pensioners.
The Baptist society in Newport, on
Friday evening, January 8th, gave Rev.
\. II Ball. who has been supplying the
pulpit of that church for few weeks,
donation of $103 in cash Mr.. Ball has
returned to Hamilton, to complete his
theological studies, preparatory to assum-
ing the permanent charge of that church,
in August next
CATHOLIC.
The anniversary Of the conservation
Of St Msry's cathedral, at Burlington,
was celebrated, Thursday morning, by
pontifcal high mass. the edifce being
decorated in the style usual ON such occa-
sions.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The Congregationalists have 245 stu
dents at their six theological schools.
There are seventy-two Congregations
nj churches in California, with about ,, 900
members.
Fourteen ministers were in attend
ance on the meoting of the Winooski
Association of Congregational Ministers
on Monday last.
Tho Congregational churches of Bos-
ton give yearly from one-twelfth to one
fifteenth of all that is contributed in the
United States to the \. B. C. I. NJ
The Boston Congregationalists are
discussing the relative advantages of the
denominational and undenominational
methods of prosecuting Christian enter
prises.'
Rev L. O. Brastow took leave Of his
friends at the South church, in St. Johns
bury, on Tuesday evening, and left for
New York Wednesday morning, from
which place he sails for Liverpool on
Saturday of this week. We understand
he intends to 90 directly to the East and
Holy Land. OF the length of his stay
abroad we have no knowledge.
In the Congregational church at
Peacham, five have died in 1868, and
eleven have been dismissed to unite with
other churches. The number of members
of the Congregational church at present
is 242. The additions to the church since
it, organization have been 954 of whom
seven united in 1868, and six more We're
received last Sabbath. This church was
organized. in 1894, consisting Of twelve
mcmbers-of these the ages Of only ten
were given at the time of their death, and
the aggregate is 500 years-an average of
50 years. The church has had from the
first but four pastors, three of whom now
sleep with she dead of their people.
The religious interest in Enosburgh
still continues, and is decidedly a pure
and hopeful one. Eighteen persons were
received into the Congregational church
on the Sd instant. seventeen by profess
sion and one by letter.
The Congregational church in Lyu-
don hove voted to have but one service
on Sunday. The afternoon win be de-
voted to Sunday School exercises.
Rev Frederick Hicks, of Panama, a
native of Bennington, was ordained on
the 23l instant in the Bennington Centre
church.
The annual report Of the College
Street Congregational Society, Burling-
ton, rendered at the annual meeting ou
Monday evening last. showed the eo~;~'.
10 DO wnolly out of debt on both church
and parsonage, and with balance in the
treasury, after paying all bills The
former officers were reelected, with the
exception of G. l.. Sumner. who declined,
as clerk, and who is succeeded by w. l..
Burnap
The annual concert of Bethany church
Sabbath School, of Montpelier, was held
last Sunday evening, and was an occasion
Of marked interest. With this anniver.
sary closed the sixth year of Col. II. d
Hopkins services as superintendent, under
whose efficient charge the school has at
tanned a degree of prosperity and useful
ness second perhaps to no other in the
State. The highest attendance of teach
ers and scholars reported was $50, and
the present average is about 100. The
singing by choir and school was very
noticeable feature of the evening.
The Congregational Sabbath School
in Greensboro, organized in 1912, being
the oldest in the State, held its anniver-
sary on the Eth inst. Whole number of
members, $50; average attendance, 73
number of deaths, 3. Concerts have been
revived with good success, and the school
has raised for books and benevolent pur-
poses S11.32.