Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-06-09
Religions Intelligence.

MIR. iJrCy, OF Union lncoluglcal CCifl'
nary, has engaged with the Congregational
church at Simonsville (Andovcrl
--Rcv II. n. Burton, Of Newbury, has
been called to Newburyport Mass
Rev. G. G. Grew, formerly Of Chester,
has become pastor Of the Baptist church at
Railway, Nj.
REV. Levi Loriug late of Saxton's Riy-
or, has accepted a call from the Central Con.
grcgatona church in Madison, Ohio.--Rev.
John Thyng has removed from Londonderry
to West Townshond, where he supplies the
church.-Rev W. G. Bowen, Of Wardshoro,
is engaged to preach at Jamaica.-Rev. Da-
vid Shurtlef, Of Bloomington, is engaged to
preach for year in Fayettcylle.-Rev. f.
H. lIcrrick, who has been preaching recently
at Colchester, is to minister to the church at
Wilmington for time
District Preachers meetingat st. Johns
bury, on Tuesday, June Sth
sabbath School Institute Of st. Johns
bury District at st. Johnsbury, June Sth.
twenty-five persons have united with
the Congregational church in Wcybridgc,
during the last year
The Y. NJ G. A. of Fairhaycn, is re-
ported as actively engaged in its good work,
and as having recently received some addi-
tons to its numbers.
On Saturday last, a bell was raised to
the tower of the Congregational church edi-
fee at Clarendon, and for the first time the
ringing Of church bell ia that place was
heard
The Vermont Baptist Association was
organized in 1855, in Manchester in Elder
Joseph Cornell's barn
Eleven persons were baptised last Sab
bath, and received into the Freewill Baptist
church, at West Derby.
Tho Franklin County Sabbath Schoo
Convention and Teachers Institute is to be
held az Swanton, june 10
The annual Windhom County Baptist
Sunday School Convention, will be held at
Wilmington, on Wednesday, june 9th.
The Congregational churches in Addison
county contributed s2l7s for benevolent pur-
poses, in 1868.
The Congregational churches of Bird.
port Shorcham and Orwell, hold but one
preaching service on the Sabbath.
The churches in Addison county have
been favored with revivals during the winter,
and about two hundred have been added to
them, one hundred and fhy-eight by profess
sion.
The Congregational church at Spring
field, which is now one Of the finest in the
State, was occupied for the first time since
repairs, on the 23d ult.
The First Congregational church Of
Cleveland, Ohio, received thirty-eight at its
last communion; the church in Colamer,
thirty-two; inWakeman, seventy-two as part
Of the fruitof the latereviva in East Clevc-
land, forty-two, since March LIST.
The first annual meeting of the National
Christian Association opposed to Secret Socie-
ties, win commence its sessions in Farwell
Hall building, Chicago on Tuesday, June Stb,
at y p. Nj.
The 44th Anniversary of the American
Tract Society, New York, was held in the
Madison Avenue Presbyterian church on
the 18th ult. The society reports a year Of
successful work. Receipts, s4sS,000.
The indianapolis Sentinel of the oath
ult. says; "A saloon-keeper in the southern
part of the city opened his place yesterday,
displaying an open Bible and pitcher Of
clear, cold water on his counter. As his reg
ular customers dropped in he invited them to
queneh their thirst from the waters of life
The Methodist church South, has reject.
ed the offer of the church North, for reunion,
the Southern church complaining that the ac-
ton Of the other since the war has been such
% fo Oh of E,aliuo, ,xbi.k t,na
reunion impossible.
"A, vote on the introduction of lay dele
cations with the Methodist Episcopal church,
was taken in portion of the churches of Chi.
cago, ILL.,, Sunday There was but one vote
against the proposition
The British and Foreign Bible Society
have published in Chinese, 100000 copies of
the New Testament.
The number Of converts to Christianity
in China, amounts to 5000 including men Of
all classes.
Miss Fay mentions, as an argument for
girls schools in China that the women ar,
almost the only teachers of idolatry--th,
priests requiring the mothers to take theil
children to the temple at an carly age for in
struction.
"A little girl begged to give her pennie
to the missionary, and to do it " aoio, that i
may Begin quick to do good." A good hin
to those inclined to by-and-by benevolence.
The venerable DR., Spaulding, the oldes
living missionary, isnow 10 years of age, an'
still hard at work at Ceylon. Mrs. Spauld
ing, though now seyenty-two years of age, ha
her class Of girls on the house veranda, as il
younger days. DIR. S.went to Ceyon in 1879
Forty-nine years of work in the ministry !
as much as most men enjoy in cooler eli
mate.
"A dispatch from the city of Worms q
Monday last says The Protestant Con
gress which assembled here to-day was al
tended by 10000 persons, including repres
entatives from all the States of Germany
The Congress by unanimous vote resolves
against the Papal exhortation to return /
the Roman Church. and in condemnation {
the Encyelical letter and Syllabus.
Recent accounts from Jerusalem spea
of the rapid progress and important resuI,
Of Lieut.. Waren's explorations in the ST
cred City. More than fifty shafts have bee
sunk, revealing archways, galleries. burie
halls, reservoirs, and water-courses, thus &c
ting gimpses of the city as it was. By or
of these shafts the foundations Of the oil
walls Of the old Temple area have been foun
ninety feet below the present surface. III
exploration of the Birket Israil, or Pool {
Bethesda, has revealed vast vaulted reese
voir nearly 100 feet in depth.
Rev. DR.. Price, of Wales, distinguish
ed Baptist preacher, now in this countr,
spoke, last Sabbath, Of the movement in Il
British Parliament to disestablsh the Chur,
in Ireland, as the beginning of the end
Church and State. 1t would be next owe
thrown in Wales, then in Scotland, then
England, and 50 on everywhere
The wealthy and select AscensiC
(Episcopal) Church of New York, are ope
ing the doors of their stately and beautif
edihce on Sunday evenings for all to come
upon equal terms and hear the gospel II
the once it is to be an entirely Free CAurc
The experiment. in such place of all other
has our best wishes