Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-27


first Tuesday in February, 1870, at 200
J The Royalten As-ceia ton wiz no.
: with Rev. Mr.. Fairbanks, Al 1"aTestrninsrs
Esst, on Tuesday Febrnsry Let. at 3 p. q
The winasor.~Vi s,s''ivsn, Y
II H, associations o: Gsnsrr.. .fiois4l tniu.
tiers are hereafter to ho q their meeting
together. The union v as consumated n
18th inst, at mssting Of the two ussocis
tons, held with Rev. c. A. Downs of Lei
: anon, N. II.
EPISCOPAL.
u On Tuesday, Holy Innocentis Dsy
28th of December, nearly three thoussn3
children met in ST. Johns church, Varisk
street, New York There was q eisu.
Christmas tree in front of the chance
lighted witha calcium light. This chaps
of Trinity Parish now maintains ors
|, colored Sunday-school, one colored indu,
trial school, one German Sunday-schod
! and general industrial school, all unde,
! the care Of one Miss @. A. Butler. L.
the festival above named over eight
hundred Roman Catholic children partie
ipated.
4 Says the eloquent Bishop of Albany
in his most stirring annual address: "Baa
as / think the compulsory celibacy Of
Rome is, and / think it is very bad,
think it is surpassed by the meanness tha.
sets premium on an unmarried priesf
because he is cheap, or looks out for q
clergyman who has inherited or married
pittance of property, wherewith he can
exc out the dolings of a stinted support.
Tho Rev. Frederick A Fiske, Con.
gregational minister at Raynham, Mass,
has Just been entered before the standing
committee of Massachusetts,, as a eandi
date for Holy Orders.
The Bishop of Illinois has just re-
marked in his annual address: "Thank
God that Radicaiism has so few within
this diocese, and ritualism fewer still
have no conscious sympathy with any Of
| these extremer views, and have never al
| lowed myself to be seduced or driven into
partizan afinityswith either"
The Bishop of California a few weeks
ago was present at the anniversary of
Chinese Sunday school of Advent Parish,
San Francisco. In the evening, at the
same church, the sermon was by the Lord
Bishop of Honolulu, the next diocess
west of California.
On Christmas day the Bishop of Long
Island visited St. Mary's church, the
leading free church of the diocese. Says
our informant: "The chants were sung
by an antiphonal choir and the eongrega-
ton, and also the responses to the ten
commandments by the same-for in this
church the people areSallowed to sing. A
little less starch in the people, and full
choral service, will place this Parish in
advance of all others in Brooklyn"
The first German Episcopal church
of New York city was consecra:ed last
week situated in East Fourteenth street,
and cost $4,000.
The one hundredth anniversary OF
Trinity church, Woodbridge, n. J., Va.
celebrated last month. 1t received ils
charter as a Parish from King George Ill
in 1862
Rev. Mr. Dix of Trinity, New York,
lately preached one OF series of sermons,
by different distinguished preachers,
in st. Clements, Philadelphia. This
church has now crowded congregations,
largely in consequence of the adoption
of a supplied choir and choral services;
forty men and boys in the chancel and
forty more in the Organ gallery. Until
lately this church has had but slim at
tendance.
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
Rev Charles Woodhouse of this place
is giving himself heartily to the Centen-
sry work. He is selling quite a large
number of the Life Of Murray" and de-
voting the entire profits to the Murray
Fund. He proposes also to deliver lee
ture on John Murray.
Rev. Eli BalIou breaches in Roehes
Ter, Vt, Jan. % and in Shoreham, Jan
Both.
Rev. George s. Guernsey breaches in
Shrewsbury, VT, Jan. 23d.
Rev. j. T. Powers of Bellows Falls
breaches in Washington tomorrow and
next Sabbath.
Rev. Phoebe A. Hanaford has re-
ceived a call from the Universalist society
IF New Haven, Conn. She accepts, and
will take charge in April.
The collection Jan. 1st, in BrattIe-
boro, East and West, from the family mis-
sionary boxes issued by the Uniyersalist
General convention, amounted to S29.7
Contributions ranged all the way from
four cents TO six dollars.
Rev |. H Porter of Wenham, Mass,
has been invited to the pastorate of the
Unitarian society in Peterboro, n. II.
The American Unitarian Association
has now 100000 invested as permanent
tund. The aggregate receipts of the As
ISOLATION last year were sos, 345, of which
s21, 107 was received from the sale OF
books. About 100000 copies of books.
and tracts were circulated during the year.
METHODIST.
Five persons were received into the
NJ. +. Church in Higbgate, on the 18th
INST.
A successful revival OF religion is in
progress in the NJ. E. Church, Isle La
Motto. Over thirty persons have been
hopefully converted.
"A series of revival meetings has been
progressing at the Methodist church in
East Arlington, for the past three or four
weeks, with good results, some 90 or 30
having been converted.
Six Catholics and nearly sixty other
persons recently joined the Methodist
church at Chicopee, Mass.