Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-04-28
Religious Intelligence.

Rev G. NJ. Winch, Missionary in n.
ango county, having removed his rosidona,
from Plainfeld to Barre, requests all come come
nications intended for him, addressed aec ,,rI
ingly.
Rev. T. p. Briggs of Whitinpham h.
accepted call from the Baptist church "a'
Caremont, N. H., commencing his labors n
first Of May.
Rev r. NJ. Haynes, Baptist formo,.
Of Walingiord, goes to Lewiston, Maine.
Subscriptions to the amount of s8Go,
for an Episcopal house Of worship at Cbos,o,
have already been made, and the commit
have decided to proceed to the erection c, ,,Iv
this spring.
Tho fifth pastor in Ncwbury was R..
CLARK Perry he was dismissed june 15a
1885. The same week that he preached ~,
farewell sermon, he also preached the Gnos'l
sermon Of Dea. VIM. Borroughs. Recent
Rev II n. Burton preached his farewell ~.
mon and also preached the funeral sermon ~
Dca Jonas Meserve.
-. The people of Wells River have sub.c,a
ed some $1,000 towards repair and onaroo.
ment of their church cdifce
Tho religious interest in Westfod on,
tinues without abatement Some coo per.or.
were lately present at a prayer meeting +,
Music Hall The dailynoon prayer meelpo.
are well attended.
Tho Park street church, Boston. Is abon
10 establish pastors library to cost SlOoo
at the outset, and to be kept up by Sinai.
yelrly appropriation.
Pope Plus has invited Henry Wal
Bcecher and George b. Cheeyer to attend M
coming @cumenical council at Rome and rs,
plate their sins. A timely suggestion
One hundred and sixteen recent convert.
of the African Methodist church in Ouino,
H., were to have been baptiscd last SUNDAY
but the minister gave out after baptizing sIr.
ty-six
Rev Mr. Surgeons congregation CAV.
last year 100000 100000 for bcncyocu,
objects
"A correspondent Of the Springfield Re-.
publican says Wendell Phillips is Calyinit
He is not a very rigid one, evidently.
The Old South Church in Worcester ba.
resolved that the manufacture, sale, or use of
any intoxicating liquor as a beverage Is m.
christian.
"A Sunday school teacher gives his NJ.
pills the following recipe for content
"A sabbath well spent,
VIII bring a week OF content
And hope for the ioys of tomorrow
Whatever may be- gained.
Brings with 10 nothing but sorrow.n
The American Home Missionary Socie,,
has had under appointment during the pas,
year 9Os missionaries, of whom 65S were re-.
appointed Five hundred and sxty.fye have
been pastors or stated supplies Of single con.
gregatlonsi 255 have supplied two or three
congregations each aud 80 have had sam
larger fields. Forty-eight churches have been
organized - have become self.supportinr
% houses Of worship have been erected 80
young men in connection with missionary
churches are preparing for the ministry.
-lnthe Friendly Islands, where fityyear
ago there was not one native Christian, but
gross aud unbroken darkness, the regular at.
tendants on worship now exceed 10000. anl
contributions to religious objects are over
sl5'O0O year. Two hundred and fifty day
schools contain 10000 pupils.
The Elmira N. " Young Mems Chr..
tan Association lately paid Clara Louisa
Kellogg $1,000 for singing one night in that
city, and cleared $1,000 on the entertain.
ment.
The brick Presbyterian church at Roch-
ester \. Y, has lately received an addition
of l49 persons by profession, the fruit Of the
recent revival there Among the number
were IS heads Of families, and ll3 members
Of the Sabbath school There was also an un.
usual number Of young men among them
More churches Of the east end Of Long Island
have experienced reyivals within a year than
in any previous one for the last twenty wears
-Four or five hundred communicates have been
added to the churches IN the towns of South
old and East and South Hampton. the
result Of an unusual degree Of religious inter.
est in Vineland, n. j., during the past win.
ter, sixty-fye were received to the first Pres.
byterian church, April 4th making the
church which was organized less than six
years ago to consist Of more than $50 mem.
bers
"A Miss Rankin, of New Hampshire. has
been doing missionary work in Mexico on her
own hook, and mostly at her own expense. for
year past She has visited thousand fam.
lies, and in only one instance was copy Of
the Bible refused. She has now become
missionary Of the American aud Foreign
Christian Union
-Iion's Herald thinks Rev. DR.. Storrs, of
Brooklyn, will accept the call 20 the church
in Boston, over which Rev. John Todd has
recently ministered.
Bishop Huntington has begun his labors
IN the diocese Of Central New York with
much eclat. He held service in Grace
church, Utica, on the eyenngof the 18th, and
confirmed over fifty persons, according to the
local paper chiefly females in the morning
OF life" by which is meant girls, we presume.
The American Congregational Union
have aided in completing ffty-onc houses Of
worship the present year, and have nearly
hity more IN process of erection, but have not
the means of completing them.
Atoms Herald says: 1.-Two ministers
have been driven from their pulpits by church
debts, Rev Mr. Todd, of Boston. and Rev
Mr. Osgood, Of New York. One hundred
and seyenty-eight thousand dollars is the bur.
den that broke the formers back.
The following resolutions were passed at
the late meeting of evangelical churches in
Springfield, Mass
Rssotucd That II Is the Of this Convention that
there should be united effort of all the Christian
Churches In the County 10 enlist the entire membership
oi each church In doing some definite work for Christ
hesohed That we recommend that the churches Of
christ In each town unite In adopting some method ny
which each in that town shall be reached b. some
personal effort for their salvation.
WIN, Sturges the Chicago bankrupt, has
made up the list of his liabilities, which con.