Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-21

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travelling I5r his health in Europe has !.
inst received as gift from Oxford Uni
yersity $4,000 and $1,000 worth OF BOOKS
for college in his diocese.
Rev. G. T. Woodruff has been electeo
to the Rectorship of Christ Church, Hud-
son. 80
Rev. G. w. Foote, rector of st. Mark 6
associate mission, Salt Lake City, makes
loud appeal for help. He says, "We are
the only non. Mormon ministers settled ID
Utah, and still occupy the field alone.
During the three years existence OF TINS
mission, 1O6 persons have been baptizeo'
including "a adults, and Al have been
confirmed by Bishop Little. In the mis-
sion school three young men OF Mormon
parentage are already preparing for the
holy ministry.
The semi-annual delegate missionary
meeting of the Protestant Episcopal
church is in San Francisco in May. On
Easter Monday Bishop Littlejohn and
other clergy expect to leave New York ID
special car westward. On the first Sun
day after Easter, Bishop l.. intends to
preach in Salt Lake City.
Rev. DIR. E. B. Pusey, professor OF
Hebrew at Oxford, and one of the first lin
gusts of the day, has lately said, ANY
revisal of the authorized version OF the
Old Testament, until the Oriental dia-
lects are better understood, would give US
chaff for wheat, introducing an indefinite
amount of error into the Word of God"
1T is announced that Rev. Edward
Husband, who recently joined the Roman
communion in England, has returned to
the English church.
Rev. DR.. Dix, of Trinity Church, n.
Y, is lecturing during Lent on the six
Ecumenical Councils.
Bishop Eastburn, by consent of the
Bishop of N. Y, on Sunday, 3D. inst,
made a visitation upon the parish OF
Eglise du St. Esprit, the French Episco-
pal church of the city. The Bishop con-
frmed seventeen young persons and kind
| " addressed them in French.
METHODIST.
The Troy Methodist Episcopal Tract
Society last year received $l5,417, ex-
pended $20,231, and printed 37,765, 234
pages of tracts.
"A Methodist church has been erected
in Bulgaria, bordering on the Black Sea.
It numbers twenty-one members, and is
the first Methodist church built in Rus
STA.
The Methodist Mission Rooms send
out the statement that ''the largest con-
tribution ever made in one year IN money
to any religious or benevolent society was
made last year to the Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal church
namely, $616, 22661. This is ar advance
of $90,06492 over the proceeding year
I8G8.")
-fhe Baltimore AGgocate, Southern
Methodist, defends the Book Concern
against the charges of DR.. Lanahan. 1t
accounts for bis action by representing
him as man of singular constitution,
whose pet hobby it is ever to De unearth-
ing some enormous and complicated con-
spiracy. It mentions especially his dig
coverv of a camp-meeting massacre and
spring-poisoning conspiracy, with whisn
he startled she public in the early part of
the war.
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
Seven Unitarian conferences have
raised $4,000 to aid divinity students in
Cambridge.
The people of the city of Akron,
Ohio, have subscribed sixty thousand dol
lars to establish an Academical School, for
the Universalist denomination in that
State.
Rev. N. III. Mann, pastor of the Unita-
rian church in Troy, N Y, has resigned
his charge to accept a call from the Uni
tartan Society of Rochester, n. Y.
The pulpit of the Free Congregation
al society at Florence was filed during
the past year by Charles G. Burleigh on
fourteen Sundays; John Weiss on three ::
Giles B. Stebbins, J. L. Hatch, Mrs. e. A.
Kingsbury and G. II. Ellis on two; Henry
B. Blackwell, Francis E. Abbott, T. w.
Evans, DR.. Ellen B. Harmon, Henry G.
Wright, Julia Ward Howe, Frank B.
Sanborn, William Denton, Theodore D.
Weld, Alfred FL. Love, Judge T. J. Boyn-
ton, Miss Z. e. Plummer, Horace Seaver,
Mrs. Maria W. Owen, Mr.. Thorn, Mrs. III.
W. Campbell, S. H. Morse, d. w. Bond.
Warren Clark, William Warner, Jr., Mrs.
Celia Burlsigh, Sallie Holley, w. G. Cor
don, John Alice and Mrs Edna D. Che.
ney, each one Sunday. Also Miss Maria
L. Bond of Florence, read one of T. E.
Abbott's sermons on one Sunday, and the
Sabbath school services occupied another.
MISCELLANEOUS.
-McGil University, Montsaal, under
Presbyterian control, has within few
weeks secured over 100000 for its endow-
ment.
The foundation of Scotch Presby-
terrain church at Rome has been laid 1t
will cost, including ground, $4,000. of
which part comes from America.
The Free Church of Scotland will
send delegation to attend the Presby-
terrain General Assembly, which meets
May 10Th, in Philadelphia.
DR.. A. L. Stone carries away from
Boston $4,000 toward the $4,000 which