Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-11-24

devotion; to instruct our children in re
ligion to endeavor to promote the saliva
ton of our relations and acquaintance
to walk circumspeotly in the world; to bt
just in our dealings to fulfil our promises
to be exemplary in our department; te
abstain frem tale-bearing; calumny, and
excessive anger to abstain also from the
sale and the habitual use of Intoxicating
drinks and tobacco; and to be jealous in
our endeavors to promote the advance.
ment of the kingdom of our Savior"
Two years ago there were in the State
of Missouri only "a Baptist Sunday
Schools. As the result of the State Sun
day School Associations work, since that
time AZ conventions have been held, and
now there are 500 schools, with 10000
scholars and 5000 teachers. This is a
growth in two years, hardly paralleled in
our church history.
CoNGREGATIo OVAL.
Rev. L. H. Stone closes his labors at
Pawlet.
Rev. I'll. A. Hazen late of Lyme, n.
II is invited to Pittsfeld
While workmen were engaged put
ting on hard finish at the Congregational
church at Randolph, ON Wednesday OF
last week, the staging fell, carrying all
with it, and Mr.. Mozart Hayden received
some severe bruises and it is feard inter-
nal injury.
In the Franklin and Grand Isle
Vermont Conference, there are fourteen
churches with an aggregate membership
of 1929. There are thirteen ministers
six pastors, six acting pastors and one
without pastoral charge. The entire av-
erage of Congregations is 1896, and the
number connected with the Sabbath
School is 1889.
AT meeting of the North Congrega.
tional church in st. Johnsbury on Mon.
day evening, it was voted to invite Char.
les M. Southgate of Woodstock, VT, to
become its pastor. A committee of four
was appointed to wait upon Mr.. South
gate and receive his answer. Mr.. s. also
has call pending to one of the Congre-
gational churches at Rockville, Conn,
Mr.. Southgate is native of Michigan, q
graduate of Yale College, and of the last
graduating class of Andover theological
seminary, and has not yet been ordained
EPISCOPAL.
Bishop Niles now resides at Concord
He officiates at Sanbornten Bridge, Sun
day Goth.
Only four Episcopal Churches in Ohio
discard the use of the surplice.
Bishop Bissell ofioiated at White
River Junction, Friday evening, Nov. IL
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
A neat little church was dedicated at
Hammond, st. Lawrence County, N. Y,
on the Goth ult. The sermon was preach
ed by the Rev. Professor Lee of Canton.
The telegraph reported on Monday
morning that at a meeting held in the
Universalist church in Cincinnati the
evening before, $1,000 were raised for the
Buchtel College. 1t is expected that the
subscription when full will reach $1O,.
900.
The Universalists enumerate their
educational institutions and estimate their
sssets respectively as follows Lombard
University, Galesburg, ILL.,, 100000; ST.
Lawrence University, Canton, n. Y,
$280,000; Tufts College, near Boston,
100000 Smithson College, Logansport,
Ind, S55, 900; and Buchtel College, Ak
ron, Ohio, $4,000. There are, in addi-
ton. academies at Westbrook, Me-, Gin
ton, N. Y, South Woodstock and Barre,
Vt, Franklin, Mass, and Jefferson, Wis. ;
and theological schools at Medford, Mass,
in connection with Tufts College, and at
Canton, n. Y. The combined assets OF
these institutions are not far from $4,000,
900, and all have been established within
thirty wears.