Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-07-29
Religious Intelligence.

ton contributed to benevolent objects in
1868 the sum of $4,000.
The Baptist church in Londonderry
was organized in 1911.
There are FIVE pastors in the Barre
Baptist Association.
The sabbath schools Of the churches
in the Danville Baptist Association have
2,1j2 volumes in their libraries.
There are 1903 scholars connected
with the sabbath schools in the Lamoille
Baptist Association.
The membership of the churches in
Windham county Baptist Association, is
l 1856.
The Vermont and Salisbury Associ-
alton meets at Bennington the last
Wednesday in August. Rev. L. b. Hurl-
burt preacher. Rev. w. II. Rugg writer
of the annual circular letter.
The third annual session of the Wind
ham County Baptist Association was held
at Brookline, in 1S37-M Bruce, modera-
tor Il. Howard, clerk Rev. NJ. Bruce,
preacher At that time there were thir-
teen churches. The baptisms the preyi-
Gus year were %, deaths IL, and the MEM
berships 1,00l.
The fourth annual session of the Yer
mont and SALISBURY Association was held
at Hoosic Corners, y. Y, in 1SjS-Rev.
John Goadby, d. D., moderator; Rev. j.
Huntington, clerk : Rev. y. Clark, preach
er; Rev ). Adams, author of the circular
letter. There were at that time twelve
ministers in the Association. There were
admitted to the church the previous year
2S7 by baptism and 40 by letter. The
total membership was ! ,673
The whole number of churches that
have been connected with the SALISBURY
Association at different times is eighty
five
CoNGREG ATIONAL.
The Congregational church in Shore
ham was organized September II, 1893.
There are i ,10j Sabbath school schol-
ar connected with the Congregational
churches in Bennington County
There were 81 adult, 30 children, 81
baPti-m- in 1868 in the Congregational
churches in Caledonia Cour ty.
There are $50 families connected
with the Congregational ch urchcs in La
noble County.
There are but two pastors and one
acting pastor of Congregational churches
in Essex County.
There were sixty three removals by
death, dismission and expulsion, from the
Congregational churches, in Washington
county, in 1868.
There are 80 males, ~ females,
1902 members of the Congregational
churches in Franklin county.
There are 1S3 nonresident members
Of the Congregational churches Orange
county,
There are 29i msmbers OF the Con-
gregational churches in Orleans county.
less than 30 years of age
There are fourteen churches in the
Royalton Association.
The average congregation in attend
ance upon the Congregational churches in
Rutland county is 1,.So.
There were admitted to the churches
in the White River Association. in 1868,
profession 40, letter 3d. 142 new mem
bers
The Congregational church in Spring
field in 1865, contributed to benevolent
objects, the sum OF 81, 123 80.
The average congregation Of the
church at Winooski Falls, is 125.
From 1917 to 1927, the second decade
in the history of the Vermont Domestic
Missionary Society, its receipts were $685.
600, exceeding by $4,000 the receipts of
the FIST ten years.
Rev. Levi Parsons, in his Journal for
1900, thus describes the dark moral as
pect which Vermont presented half CEN
fury ago. Speaking more particularly of
the northern part of the State, he saws ::
''1nfdelity has here assumed its boldest
appearance. The Holy Scriptures are re-
Jected, the work of human invention,
and the Sabbath treated with avowed and
public contempt. Profana.
ton of the name of God is a prevailing
vice. Children are taught from their
cradles to speak with contempt of the
Savior"
Rev. w. S. Kimball of Newburyport,
Mass, graduate of Amherst College and
Bangor Theological Seminary, has been
engaged to supply the Congregational
church at North Troy, for two Sabbaths,
July 18th and 25th.
Deacon Loring Frost OF Coventry,
was generally surprised the other day by
call from three or four young ladies,
members OF his class in Sabbath school,
who presented him in behalf of the class
an elegant steel plate engraving of the
;" Parable of the Lily" framed in black
walnut, and also copy of Campbelps
poems. The Deacon has had charge of
the same class of young ladies for about
five years past, and this presentation was
made by them as token of their appre-
citation of his value as teacher and in
structor. Deacon Frost may be said to be
the father Of Sabbath schools in this town
II not in the county. In the summer of
1913, he organized the first Sabbath
school in town at the Center, and at the I
same season one at the village, one oil
which he would attend in the forenoon
and the other in the afternoon, and in
one capacity OF another has been connect.