Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-02-17
Religious Intelligence.

Montpelier.
REV. NJ. l.. Severance congrcwtionalist,
was installed at Orwell on the 3D. inst Ser.
mon BY DR.. kitchell Of Mi1dlcbmy.
Bishop Bissell was with Christ Church,
Montpelier, last Sabbath l7ih iust) Six
explanations took place
Rev. j S. Clark has been pastor OF the
congregational church in Morgan, forty-two
years lie is now inhis scyonty-oighth year.
Rev. G. Gravesof Middlcbury, has been
invited to the Rectorship Of Zion Church at
Manchester.
Ten were added to the Congregational
church in Thetiord at the lastconmuuionupan
profession Of faith This church has lately
appointed Committees in each School district
to visit every family and awaken all age- TO
interest in the Sabbath school The plan
works very happily.
1t is stated that, at Brattleboro, after
the experiment Of few weeks, in dcyotiue
the afternoon to the Sabbath school, the prop
osition to make the arrangement permanent
has been adopted without dissent
The amount raised for foreign benevolent
objects, by the Congregational Church and
Society at Chester. in 1865, was s69i2i
Seven persons have united with the Congre-
gational Church at Chester in the past year
AT the recent annual meeting Of the
Trustee. of the Green Mountain Central In.
stitute. AT Barre. il was reported that $40.
oOO k,a boo, ,,o;d ,or,o,ds .Lo ,,,,,...,.,;,.,
Of the building, S47 600 had been subscribed.
and a $4,000 Endowment Fund was resell
we'd upon. Hon. II. Carpenter, Of Mortified,
was elected President Byron Goodwin. Of
East Montpelier, Vice President; Hon. Har-
vey riden Of Barre, Secretary and Treasur.
err and &. w. Tilden, Of Barre, Collecting
Agent. They hope TO have the school in OPP
Grafton on September LIST.
-Bcv. Dr. Lamson, in the Boston Watch
man and Reflector cautions clergymen against
giving their names in approval OF enterprises.
books and other things, of which they know
little or nothing--a fault to which their kind
ness OF heart often inclines them. lie says
he recently invested several dollars in a huge
volume, well recommended, which he hnds to
be worthless Thousands oflaymen who have
been taken IN and done for" on the strength
OF ministerial recommendations Of poor wares,
WIZ N''o" NO" 10 sy'npa'hize WIN IT. Lam
SUD-
Infant baptism has increased in the past
five years from 1,190 to 1921 which is
yesys '''' wy f'0''''' "
,ooo
carry 4VVu persons nave neen added
70 inc DaP'isV churches IN virginia during
inc pas. year ana III many places revivalf
arc sun going on
kew Il ID Dattar tha a.~ou.a.ltaf a.. I.lI
ing meetings in Iowa. At Marshaltown the
interest was so great that banks and stores
were closed a part oil each day. that the clerks
might at'enu 'he meetings, ana one oil the
A. 80 N'i.ne9 "as n'iou c Nun inqu'iors'
~ i nam MI WI w conversions
J.roIa-aJ M 49,, "oiN u si"0o was
liz oh;o I'D p.a-;1a-, E rco''n"es ~ OD W
,ho oo,rn.,a ,,,,,a, ' sLaS : '"nIJ INSISTS 'n"'
ouet. Al Milwaukee Fond dn Ioc and Wan.
tesha. Wis. there are revivoIs In noorly
all the towns along the Hudson r;yer thers
are REVEALS and at Buffalo the excitemcnt !.
great. At Portland. and many other Mace.
in Maine, there is great and increasing inter.
est. A Sunday school missionary in West.
ern New York reports reyiyals in many
schools, and in one town over 300 conversions
The managers Of the American R;hlo 60
eiety have voted to hold no anniversary meet.
ing in May. and it is thought other societie,
will follow their example, and anniversar,
week, which has been declir u. will soon die
out.
In London the increase Of Rantist con
greeations within fifteen years has beon twic,
that of the Independents or Conversational
lists and tbrce t;mas tbot ~ tho WooIo,,o,,s
fact largely ascribed to the Rev. Mr.. Spur
geon's efforts.
- Several voung Snon;sh pro,es,a,,s or,
pursuing the study Of theology in France
who viii soon return to their own country as
missionaries; and a number of Spanish ladiei
are also preparing themselves in France tc
become teachers and Bible-reoders in theii
own country.
Rev. Crammond Kennedy, much pettec
recently by the Baptists as their boy preach
err" is now under cloud because he has be
come an open communionist. The Fifth Az