Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-06-03
Religious Intelligence.

EAPTTsTs.
During the convention year twenty
seven were added by baptism and two by
experience to the Baptist Church in Pitts
ford. Total membership so.
The tenth annual session Of the Tcr.
mont and Salisbury Association was held
At Hydeville in 1864. Rev. w. L. Palmer
moderator, Rev. G. /. Frcnyccr, clerk
Rev. |. II. Wood, preacher. At that time
there were seventeen ministers in the n.
ISOLATION. During the previous year there
were ~ bapti-us 10 admitted Icy letter
- conversions p excluded 81 deceased
Total membership, 1928:
Rev. Samuel Woodbury.. Of New Bo.-
ton, y. IT,, has accepted a call 10 the
church in Braintree, Vt.
The Baptist Congregation in Brattlc-
boro il about erecting parsonage on it,
church site.
Rev J. L. Mattison, Of Sing Sing, y.
Y, has accepted a call to the Baptist
church at Brattloboro.
On a recent Sunday the children ID
the Baptist Sabbath School of Windsor,
by invitation Of the Chaplain Of the Yer
mont State Prison, visited that institution
and attended divine service. The children
sang twice, IN addition TO the music of
the regular Prison Choir. and tho sight of
these young faces with the sound Of their
sweet voices. touched the hearts Of the
o~-.--:".-. --L, I.-5 49,. Ls,-d oI.iil4.n sing
ing for years 1t was an occasion to be
remembered by all present.
Rev. Geo. III. Parker, pastor of the
Baptist church at East Franklin, has re-
signed the pastorate there and accepted a
call from the Baptist church at Panton
Mr.. Parker has been quite successful in
his labors At East Franklin. He formed
the church there, and many additions
have been made under his preaching. He
closed his labors on the 81 inst, at which
time he baptized one convict. Rev. l..
Ashton, of Ira. Is at presnt supplying the
church, and it i thought the church will
extend a call to him.
DR. Alexis Caswell, President Of Brown
University, Of Providence, r. l., has been
for several years President of the Baptist
Missionary Union, and filed the position
aS lac does every ono to which he is ~alled,
with dignity and efficiency. But during
the last year DIR. G. expressed himself as
i,,f IL L
this, says "A correspondent of city paper,
reporting the proceedings OF the Union
at it, anniversary meeting last week,
" some Of the more rigid ones resolved TO
punish him by ,upercedure. In this they
succeeded, by choosing President Amber
son, Of Rochester University. but not by
very gcntlcmanly tactics"
Hon. George Grandey preached before
the Baptist church in Yergenncs last Sab
bath.
Tho Addison Baptist Association viii
hold its next anniversary in Bristol, COM
mencing on Wednesday, June 23l, 1869,
at 10 o'clocl, a. IN. Sermon by Rev. w. S.
blIlsdvll, bridpnrt
Rev Edwin Durham, the Evangelist,
will commence a series OF meetings in
West Cornwall, Tuesday evening, June
Sth, prox.
CONGREGATIONAL
Every Congregational association in
Vermont reported gain of membership
in the churches in 1868.
The net increase of Congregational
churches in Vermont from June /, 1867,
to June /, 1865, was more than LOO.
The Congregational churches in the
year ending June /, 1868, re-
ceived larger additions than in any one of
the twenty-five years.
Nearly every Congregational church
in Vermont in 1868, when the preaching of
the Gospel was sustained reported some
additions, and the average of such addi-
tions by profession was nine and one
third TO each church, which received any
additions at all.
While the Congregational churches in !
Vermont had an unusually prosperous
year in 1868, those within the counties of
Addition, Orleans, Orange and Windsor
with Windham counties were especially
favored.
twenty-five persons have united with
The Congregational Church in Weybridge
Turing the last year.
The next annual meeting of the
Franklin and Grand Isle Conference of
the Congregational Churches will be held
1t st. Adams, commencing on Tuesday.
June 1st. Rev. Geo. F. Wright breaches
The opening sermon ; Rev. L. w. Hatch
breaches the communion sermon Rev
d. Q. Riggs and Rev. A. B. Swift win
'ead paper ON Training Of young