Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-04-09
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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
CONGREGATIONAL

CoNGREGATIONAL
Mr.. Isaac Pierson Of the Senior class at An
dover Is expected to supply the pulpit at Yves
Hartford during the spring vacation.
Rev. Levi Loring closes his labors at saxtor
River on the last of this month.
Mr.. J. C. McCOllum was ordained Pastor oftbs
congregational Church Of Cambridgeport on the
I'D ult Sermon by Rev. Alfred Stevens, charge
Rev. A. F. Clark Right hand Rev L. Loring
The church was formed last spring with % mem
bers, and since that time l6 have been added
Mr.. MCollom is their first settled pastor.
Rev s. W. Hanks, secretary of the Seaman
Friend Society for New England, has removed
to Cambridge, Mass,
Rev L N. Tarbox, Secretary Of the Ameri-
can Education Society, has been appointed Lee
turer on Congregationalism at Andover Theo-
logical Seminary
The church in Lebanon, Conn, propose put
ting up building for pastors library. Ex-
Gov. buckingham has given funds for the OBJ
ject.
The Park street church, Boston, at the sug-
gestion Of their pastor, Rev. W. H. II. Murray,
Is about to establish PASTORS library, to cost
$1,000 at the outset and to be kept up by small
yearly appropriation.
EPISCOPAL
Bishop Bissen officiated in St. Stephen S
Church on Sunday, and two persons were con-
firmed.
Bishop DOane has rendered his resignation Of
the office of rector of St. Peters church. Al
bany, in consequence of his recent election as
Bishop Of the Diocese Of Albany.
Rev. DR.. Mulcahey, of New Bedford, has been
nominated to the vacant professorship of syste-
matte divinity for the General Theological Semi
nary in New York.
The flooring Of the church in Thomaston, Ne.
recently gave way, precipitating $50 persons in
to the basement Two we're seriously and many
slightly injured.
The first service in st. Johns Episcopal
church, Buffalo, since the fire on the Fourth Of
July last, was held on Sunday, the 18th ult.
Trinity Corporation Of New York city, have
recently voted $4,000 for the improvement Of
the grounds upon which the church stands.
The diocese of Missouri has bought a commo-
dious residence for their bishop in St Louis.
Certain Protestant Episcopalians in the diocese
ol limos have published protest against what
they asserted to be the Romanizing tendencies Of
@~~-ANi " NA'N-4S-7N AAAA tNAltAs VI HIS stuuOA-
DR.. Canfeld's church. in Brooklyn, (Episco-
paD opened mission chapel in South Brooklyn
years ago. 1t is now self-supporting, with
200 members, $50 Sunday-sehool scholars A
second mission, one year old, has $50 scholars,
preaching twice every Sunday, and 400 at the
prayer-meetings. Yet a third has developed in
to an independent church, with its rector. There
are evidently men and heart in Christ church,
as well as money.
Rev. DR.. F. D. Huntington, in preaching his
farewell sermon, the 2lst ult, gave a sketch Of
his pastorate. During his administration in Elm
manuel church, Boston, he administered to 35S
infants and Ill adults; $50 persons have
received the rite of confirmation; l27 marriages
have been sOlemnized and the burial service
has been read l92 times. The parish has given
for charitable purposes, since its organization in
1860, Sl5l,715 y.
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
Rev. 5. ". Squire, of Franklin, Mass, has
been appointed agent Of the Green Mountain
Institute at Mortified.
Rev. Jas. Eastwood, Of Brattleboro, Vt, is
supplying the pulpit of the Philadelphia churches.
Rev. Thomas Hill, D. D., late president OF
Harvard College, has received a call from the
Unitarian Church at Waltham, over which he
was settled for many years.
DR.. Bellows church in New York city has
made arrangements to continue the free meetings
in Cooper Union, at an expense of $4,000.
They are under the charge Of the right wing Of
Unitarianism
The Universalists will shortly establish a the
ological school in connection with Tufts College
near Boston. Rev. Thomas j. Sawyer, D. D., a
"a 2
men in the denomination, will be at the head Of
the new department.
Rev. DR.. Eli Ballou, Of Montpelier, Is the old
es- Universalist editor row living, and his paper.
the Repository, IS the Oldest in the denomin-
alton.
Universalism il St Lawrence county, y. Y,
is reported as h0urishing.
The Unitarian Conference Of the Middle and
Southern States, which was in session this week
in Washington, has adjourned sine die, after
electing the following named officers President
Rev. Z. ". Clarke Vice-Presdents, II Ware
and Sayles J. Bowen Secretary, Rev Fielder
Israel Treasurer, Rev L. X Sewau. The
Conference viii meet in Charleston, :. C., next
year
METHODIST.
Daniel Drew gave SIOO, 900 lately to build a
chapel for a Methodist mission School in New
! York city.
The oldest bishop Of the W. E. Church, south,
is Bishop Early, who, now in his s4th year,
preached acceptably before the late Baltimore
Conference.
The Methoiists have organized colored con
ference in Kentucky, at the request Of the col
ored people.
One dollar and fifteen and three-quarter cents
per member is the rate of giving to the nissona-
~ cause by the Wesleyan Methodists Of Canada.
The Methodist churches Of Cincinnati have
given for various objects, the last Is years,
S733, 900 OF this sum, S3J0, 900 were centen-
ary offerings, S252, ass were given for preach
ers' salaries, and S7l ,i45 for general missions.
At the annual session Of the New England
Conference, just closed, at Lowell, Mass, Rev.
A. F. Bailey, of this village, was transferred 10
the Troy Conference. Rev. R. H. Howard.
Brookfeld, Mass; Rev. c. R. Harding, Groton
Junction; Rev c. W. Cushing, Principal Of La
Sale Seminary, at Auburndale; Rev. A. Car
rol has been transferred to the New Hampshire
Conference, and Rev 7. H. Mansfield, to Spring
field Mass
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
Father Kavanagh, who was rejected at Au-
burn, n. y, by the people, has been transient
ly reappointei to the church at Seneca Falls.
Archbishop MeClosky on Monday blessed two
large bells cast by Meneely Brothers for the
Redemptorists' church of New York They are
to complete a set of splendid chimes for that
church
1t is said that Chicago is to be made the centre
of a new Roman Catholic archbishopric In that
case, H., Wis, Iowa, MINI, SC, will be set of
from the St Louis archiepiscopate, and put,
probably, under the charge Of Bishop Duggan.
The following subjects have been selected fol
consideration at the approaching Council Of the
Vatican: l. The temporal power. ,. Fasts and
abstinences. 8. Civil marriage. 4. Eccesiasti-
cal celibacy. D. Church and State On the matter
of the temporal power it is the providential law
and not the divine law, that is to be settled.
of the S125,3S7 received during 1868 by
the Society for the Protection Of Destitute Ro-
man Catholic children, 95,043, or more thar
two-thirds, was received from the public treas
ury-the city giving Obs, and the STATE
| S4,905.
In ineieui inscdOie.
| From the Vermont Gazette, then published at Ben
ningtOn August 30, 1870