Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-08
Religious Intelligence.
BAPTIST.

large amount given for the erection OF
Seminary at th:t place.
The 34th annual session of the Yer
mont State Baptist Convention was held
ct Rutland in 1859, Ex-Governor Ryland
/ Fletcher, moderator, Rev. Alvah Sabin,
preacher. The number of bastisms the
previous year in the State was Alp. Mem
berships, S,O97.
The Baptist State Convention OF
Vermont have permanent fund OF
/ 81 ,920 contributed, we presume by will,
by the following named sums Joseph
Rogers, $3.50; Polly Allen. 800; Mary
Robinson, S270; Margaret Chalker, 500;
Jonathan Cutler, 81 900. They also have
meeting house fund of $500, contributed
/ by Jonathan Cutler.
t The Vermont and SALISBURY Bap-
tist) Association held its 9th anniversary
at Brandon in 1860 Rev. 3. n. Leach,
/ D. D., Moderator. Rev. y. Clark, clerk
Rev W. Lincoln, preacher, a. NJ Swain,
author of the circular letter. The Asso-
citation contained IA ministers, 3 licenti'
ates, Is churches Admissions during
previous year, 135. Total memberships,
1873.
CONGREGATIONAL
Rutland Association has seventeen
churches.
The receipts of the General Couven-
ton in 1868, from the Rutland and Bon
nington Association, was 1921.
The whole memberships of the Com
gregational churches in Vermont is lS.-
32S, an average of 81 members to each
church.
The whole number added 10 the Com
gregatiOnal churches III the current year
1867 and 1868 was 2,0G2 OF these.
+ / ,45S were received by profession. and 5Ol
by letter
The Congregational society of South
Royalton publicly dedicated its new
house of worship, Thursday. April lst.
] Sermon by RcT. w. II. Lord, ID. d, OF
Montpelier. The pastor elect. Rev. d.
w Fox. was installed the same day.
+ Mr.. w. \. Hazeu. Of Norwich. was
ordained pastor of the First Congrega-
tional church III Middletown, CT, Mlrch
ION. Sermon " rIor. L. O. Ga, Ill, Of
Andover Theological Seminary. Charge
by his brother, Rev. Austin Hazen. OF
Jericho, Vt Address to the people. Rev.
/ C. J.. Goodell, formerly of Vermont
/ EPISCOPAL.
--Thore are 40 organized parishes in
. the Diocese of Vermont.
The Diocesan Mission fund of, the
] Episcopal church in Vermont is S1,755.93.
The receipts of the convention of the
Diocese of Vermont for 1868, was $GsiS2.
Disbursements, S65612.
The appropriations Of the Land agents
of the Episcopal church in Vermont. june
4, 1868, for the support Of the Gospel. was
$3.50.
There are l,GGS families connected
with the Episcopal church in thi. State
The number of individuals connected
with the Episcopal church in Vermont is
G.27s
The numter Of adults baptisod in the
Episcopal church in the State, from June
1, 1867, to June /, fSGs, WAS - children,
IA Total 2G6.
The fund for aged and intirn clergy
men Ia tie diocese Of Vermont is 3d.
1872 -
Liberal CHRGsTINN.
Rev. II Chosen l. now pastor Of the
Universalist church in Gardiner. Mas.
Rev james Eastwood, of Brattleboro.
is supplying the pulpit Of Uniyersalist
church in Philadelphia
During the exercises OF the I-niver-
salist Conference held last week in Rox-
bury, Mass. Rev f. S. Bliss. of Barre
VT, introduced Il special topic-"Chris-
tian Cooperation or, what the Univer-
salist believer may do for Lis church."
saying that the Universalists a. a deuomi-
nation needed more unity Of thought and
action, more community Of feeling. "A
heartier conservation to the work in hand
What was most needed to vitalize and
unite the body was religion, Christian ex-
perience, the personal contact of the soul
with God by faith in Jesus Christ, and to
produce this should be their first and
chief endeavor. The things needed for
its production were stated to be prayer,
both in the family and abroad, faithful
study of the word of Cod and hearty,
united cooperation.
METHODIST
Some thirty-fve hopeful conversions
are reported of the Methodist Society at
Danville.
More than usual religious interest
the Methodist Society.
Two sensible churches in East Long,
meadow, Congregational and Methodist,
have formed a union, to exist one year
The services are to be held in the Congre-
gational church, and a Methodist clergy
man is to be the preacher.
"A Methodist Sisterhood has been or
gained by the Rev. j. X. McKowan in
Union chapel, Cincinnati. Visiting bands,
consisting of some forty women of that
church, have. been organized to call on
the sick and poor, to relieve their wants
and administer to their spiritual comfort |
Many of the former students of Troy Con.
ference Academy, at Poultney, will re-
member Mr.. McKowan, the clergyman
above referred to, who has become one of
the most eminent preachers of his denomi-
nation in the west.