Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-05
coNGREGATIoNAL.

CONGREGATIONAL.
The Congregational church at New
castle, N. H., is 1919 years old.
Rev Benjamin Merrill of Pembroke,
N. H., resigns, and, it is said, goes to Au-
sable Forks, N. Y.
Rev. B. T. Perkins, recently of Mis-
souri,, is engaged to preach at Stowe, Yer
mont.
Rev Corban Curtice will close this
ministry of twenty-seven years with the
church at Tilton, N. Fl. formerly Sam
bornton Bridge, on the last Sabbath in
this month, and seek new field of labor.
The Addison Association of Congre-
gational ministers, at a recent meeting in
Middlebury, elected Rev. Harvey F. Leav-
lit and Joseph Steele to represent them in
the Congregational Convention to be held
at Chicago on the 9th inst.
There are fifteen ministerial associa-
tions connected with the Congregational
churches in Vermont.
The average attendance upon the
Congregational churches in Rutland
county is 1880.
There are 375 Sabbath school scholars
connected with the Congregational church
in Rutland $3.50.
There are forty persons less than 80
years of age connected with the Congre-
tional church in West Rutland.
EPISCOPAL.
The annual Easter offerings, gathered
from the penny offerings on Sundays, of
the children of Trinity parish, Rutland,
amounted to $54 The offerings were
sent to Nashotah House, Wisconsin, an
institution devoted exclusively to the
training of young men for the sacred min
istry, and depending entirely for its sup
port upon the free-will offerings of Chris
tian people, received through the daily
mail. Nashotah has sent out since its
foundation in 1928, 116 clergymen, and
has now fifty students in preparation, and
has no endowments.
st. Stephens College, Annandale, on
the Hudson river, has sitty-pine students
looking forward to Holy Orders.
"A wealthy lady of Scotland, lately
deceased, has bequeathed money and
property to the amount of 100000 to
the Scotch Episcopal Church. The will
provides for the erection of a cathedral in
Edinburgh, and a yearly stipend of $4,000
for the incumbent of the same.
Rev. j. A. Morgan, Presbyterian
minister, has been recommended to the
Standing Committee of the Diocese of
Long Island, as a candidate for Holy
Orders.
OF the seven Episcopal churches in
Hartford, all but two are free.
AT the erection of new font in the
Wesleyan Chapel (Methodist) at Burslew,
England, recently, there We're deposited
in a cavity, beneath one of the stones,
bit of the coffin, piece of the shroud and
a lock of the hair of the Rev John Wes-
ley, who died presbyter, in the Church
of England, in 1901. The account says
the announcement by the resident minis
ter was received by the spectators with
Rev. Theodore Edison, D. D., has just
passed the 46th anniversary of his rector
ship in ST. AIMS parish, Lowell, Mass.
1t is the largest Episcopal parish in
Massachusetts. A beautiful stone chapel
has just been built for this parish, and
on Christmas day an eagle leotern, of
polished solid brass, was presented by a
daughter of the junior warden. On last
Ernbor Sunaay the bishop confirmed 40
young persons in st. AIMS Church. Not
long ago, in one year, there were 1919 con-
irmed in the same church. In the par
sonage is a Reotor's library of three
thousand volumes, the property of the
parish.
w. B. Everett, III. D., was lately or
dained in Baltimore, and is to be assist
ant to the rector of Deer Greek parish,
Hartford county, Nd. This parish, first
in 1857, has now two church
buildings, three congregations and a
fourishing church school for boys. 1t
had for its first rector the present rector
of Rutland, and it was his. first rector
ship.
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