Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-02-19
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

BAPTIST.
At Hartford the Baptist church is holding re-
vival meetings, largely attended. More IMAM
fifty have joined the church.
Rev. Mr.. Kelley Of MadAias. Maine. baptised
six persons by immersion one cold day last week
The ice required much cact5ng to secure
space of open water sufficient for the work.
ooSGREaAT1osAL.
Prof Parker of Dartmouth College, has been
temporarily engaged to supply the pulpit IN
West Hartford, lately filled by Rev. Horace vel
lington, for some time to come
There is considerable religious interest at Bar
net, in the parish of Rev. L. S. Watts.
The Oldest acting Congregational Pastor YER
mont, is Rev. o. G. Wheeler, who has beer SET
tied at South Hero more than twenty-eight years
Rev. Alfred Stevens of Westminster west, anu
Rev. Sewall Payne of Montgomery, are stiil ac-
tive in pastorates Of more than twenty-five years
each. Rev. Joseph Chandler Of West Bratte-
boro', and William II. Lord, d. D, OF Montpe-
lier, have each been settled more than twenty
years.
The amount raised for foreign benevolent OBJ
jects, by the Cong regationsl Church and Society
at Chester, in 1868, was S694.24. Seven per-
sons have united with the Congregational Church
at Cnester, III the past year.
The catalogue Of Andover Theological Seminary
reports resident licentates, 81 senior, ~ in
the middle, and 10 in the junior class. while g
are pursuing special course. Massachusetts,
sends 80 students, Maine 9, New York 4, Ohio
Z, and Vermont 7. The whole number is "a.
EPISCOPAL
The Rev. G. Graves, rector of the Episcopal
Church in Middlebury, has received call from
lions Church, Manchester, VT, and will proba-
bly, accept it.
The New York Diocese comprises the counties of
NewH York, Richmond, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam,
Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester.
containing 173 parishes and 22,l77 communi-
cants. Their contributions in 1868 amounted to
1887 ,492.
The 45 churches in the county of New York
report :, 496 baptisms, 1856 combinations, H.
5O2 communicates, and contributions amounting
TO S667, S2S IA, for 1868. Of this amount near
ly one half was contributed by Churches Of Rev.
DR.. Tying, Rev. j. Cotton Smith and Rev S. H.
Tying, Jr., all Evangelical Low Church The
amount given by DR.. Tyng's parish was more
than double the sum contributed by the four
Trinity churches, viz Trinity church. st Paul's
chapel, St, Johns chapel and Trinity chapel.
Rev. Professor johnson, of the General Theo-
logical Seminary Of New York, has resigned,
having no sympathy with the unprotestant rit-
ualism which controls it, Rev. DR.. Francis
Yinton, of New York city, has been elected to
succeed him.
LIBERAL CHRISTIANS
At the recent annual meeting Of the Trustees
of the Green Mountain Central Institute, at
Barre, it was reported that $4,000 had been
paid towards the construction Of the building,
h,1 Iaar - . N
Endowment Fund was resolved upon Hon. H.
Carpenter, of Mortified, was elected President
Byron Goodwin, Of East Montpelier, Vice-Presi-
dent; Hon. Harvey Tilden, of Barre, Secretary
and Treasurer, and G. W. Tilden, Of Barre,
Collecting Agent They hope TO haze the school
in operation on September lst
TIE annual Uniyersalist leyee, at Proctorsville
last week, netted SOP.
The Rev. J. F. Ware, Unitarian clergyman
at Baltimore, is Of the opinion that Methodism is
to be the religion of the South, but is to become
- more broad in It's faith and charity" Uni.a-
rianism, he says, will succeed in the West. but
not in the South, where creeds and prejudices
are inherited.
METHODIST
The NJ Z Church in Whitehall still continue
their revival meetings, morning and evening.
Many have been hopefully converted to Christi
anity, and in all the churches are visible signs
Of the good work.
Rev DR.. Stevens, the Methodist historian,
says, in his reply to the proposition ton Aglican-
ize the Methodists
know not one Methodist in the Republic
who believes there can be any Identification Of
the two Churches. There certainly can be no
such union without the fullest concession Of the .
validity Of our ordination, sacraments. etc This
concession will never be made by the High
Church party Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
Infant Baptism has increased in the past five
years from 81 $50 20 10 ,297, which i largely in
excess Of those Of the previous FIVE years.
At their late annual meeting in New York
city, the Methodist Episcopal Tract Society re-
ported that the receipts during the year 1865
amounted to Sl4,S7j, and the expenditures to
: Sol The society waits 100000 for 1863
Nearly $1,000, 900 pages Of tracts were issued
during the year, besides books.
Partial returns from the Southern Methods,
churches in Virginia state the number Of white
church members to be IS ,672, colorei, 954
white local preachers, l46. Contributions for
foreign missions, : 500 IS domestic, S2,304-