Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-29
Religious Intelligence.

Religious Intelligence.
BAPTIST.
The thirty-seventh annual session of
the Vermont Baptist State Convention
was held at Hy deville, in 1852. Rev.
Alvah Sabin, moderator; Rev John Goad-
by, D. D., preacher. During the previous
year there were 90 baptisms in the State ;
membership of the churches, 7.131.
The Baptist church in Rutland was
organized in 1923.
The Baptist Sabbath school in Rut-
land has 16 teachers, 1876 pupils, and a
library containing SAG volumes. The
contributions of the Sabbath school in
1868 were SS1.75.
The benevolent contributions of the
Baptist church in Rutland. in 1868, were ::
Foreign missions $S4, home missions $i7,
State convention $4S, miscellaneous SIS,
minutes of convention 50. Total, $250.75.
The National Theological Baptist In
stitute and University holds its annual
meeting in Boston, on Thursday, May
Goth
The Rhode Island Baptist Anniver-
saries are to be held at Providence, April
26 and 81.
Persons desiring entertainment dur
ing the Baptist National Anniversaries in
Boston, should send their names before
May IL, to Geo. w Gardner, care of \.
F. Graves, No. 26 Cornhill, Boston
-Remittances for New England to the
American Baptist Home Missionary Soci-
ely, can be sent to the Rev A. p Mason,
50 Washington street, Boston.
The annual meeting of the Evan5eii-
oal Baptist Benevolent and Missionry So
ciety will be held in Boston, on Tuesday,
May 4th.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The Lamoille Congregational Associa-
ton is composed of nine churches, all of.
which are supplied with ministers but
two.
1t is estimated that the Congroga-
tional Churches in this State have 3,101
members, who are not yet thirty years Of
age. :.
The number OF Congregational Pas
tors in Vermont is 81 the number of
acting pastors is y, making the ministers
-, a., u
charge 154 churches, leaving 30 dcsti-
tute Churches There are also % minis
tiers with charges, making POS in all
there are ;}54 members of Congrgga-
tional Churches in Rutland County who
are absent from the State
The humber of members of 1ungre-
gationnl Churches III RUTLAND County
under 80 years of age, is BIG.
The Congregational chu.rh in I.ut-
land was organized i'll l1SS
The blowing are th.e statistics of the
Congreg ,tional church in Rutland in
1868: male members, lao; female, 29j
total, 49,. Members OF the church not
resident, l0-t; admitted by profession. )
by letter, 20; total %; dismissed, 4
baptisIns, adult. infants, s. the mum
Der in the Sabbath school, 80.
The Congregational church IN Rut-
land has contributed in fifty years, to the
Vermont Domestic Missionary Society
the sum of S4,429S0 The contribution
e l. - Al
SS2.15
Mrs. Silas Aiken, Mrs. Mary Barney,
James Barrett. Mrs. M. Barrett, c. c.
Dewey, Rev S. p Giddings, Mrs Julia
Kellogg, Miss Rhoda Long, John B. Page,
Rev. Norman Seaver, d. d are life
members of the Vermont Dsa.estie Mis-
sionary Society.
The month Of May Is the time for
taking the collection IN the Rutland As
ISOLATION for the Vermont Domestic Mis-
sionary Association.
AS long ago, as 1882 the 'Salem Con-
gregational church" was organized at Co
lumbus, LOwndes county, Miss, and has
ever since maintained its solitary exist
ence, being the only Congregational
church in Mississippi. 1t has pastor,
Rev. S. G. Feemter, 40 members, an aver
age congregation of 100, Sabbath school,
black and white. of so. They have
always been opposed to slavery, and been
surrounded with enemies, and yet have
prospered.
EPISCOPAL.
The amoant contributed in the Epis-
copal churches in Vermont to the Mis-
sion to tho Freedmen in 1868, was $685.
OF.
The following are the statistics of
Trinity church in Rutland, for 1893 !:
families. 1O4; individuals, 43O; baptisms,
adults 3. infants ~ 10; confirmed, 8 !;
communicates, 141 marriage, /: buried,
Z. There are about 100 children con-
nected with the parish.
The following are the contributions
Of Trinity church in Rutland for 1868:
Bishop HopkinS expenses to England,