Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-24
keiigious Intelligence.


The Baptist church in Webster, Ma
is experiencing a wonderful refreshiB,
| from the Lord.
REV. d. Dame Of North Danville, VI
has received call from the Freewill Ban.
tist Church in Lowell, Mass.
The London Baptist Union inclua
10S churches in and around London, wit.
over $4,000 members.
The pulpit of the Baptist church, S,
Adams, has been supplied for the last .wr
Sundays by the Rev. Mr.. Lane of Newtoz
Centre. Mass.
The Baptists = Massachusetts dur.
ing the past 10 years have lost two church
es, and gained 1901 members. There az.
in the State 266 Baptist churches and 90
S51 members.
When Rev. J. E. Clough arrived q,
Nellore, little more than five years since.
only fifteen or twenty converts were found
connected with the mission. Now tn
number considerably exceeds one Ao..
sand.
| CONGREGATIONAL.
The Congregstionalists of New
Hampshire have 191 churches and 201
ministers.
twenty-five persons recently unitei
with the church in Malone.
"A German Presbyterian Theological
school has been started in Newark, n. J
The Evangelist computes that of ths
missionaries of the American Board q
are Presbyterians and SO Congregational
lists.
The churches of the Franklin ann
Grand Isle Conference are to meet, by
their pastors and delegates, at st. Albans.
Tuesday, March 22d, TO nominate lay and
clerical delegates, to represent them at
the Convention of Congregational churchas
at Chicago, April 9th.
EPISCOPAL.
AT the late conservation of the new
Bishop of Oxford, in Westminter Abbey.
DIR. Mackarness, there was present within
the altar rails, in the most gorgeous vest
ments of purple and gold, an Eastern
Patriarch, Alexander Lyourgus, the
Archbishop of syria, in Greece. The
Church of Rome has no more determined
or inveterate opponent in the world than
the Greek and Oriental churches, which
now embrace eighty millions of Chris
tians, and but little short of 300 bishop.
RIGS.
Rev. Mr.. Drumm, lately from tLs
Methodist ministry, has accepted the
rectorship of St. James church, WOOD
stock.
The Boston Courier has been put
fishing in succession a course of sermons
on Holy Matrimony, by Rev. DIR. Bolles
of the Church of the Advent, and say
of them "These discourses have attract
ed extraordiornary attention and interest
Nothing could have been more timely I.
show, by the contrast of Holy MatrimOny
with the vulgar sentiment too common
to-day, how wide is the departure from
the right view"
"a tOll tO-AACAAbo VI t4S NstNS IftfftAAtt
Hartford says: The finest professional
hymn he ever heard was in a Methodiv
church in New Haven. 1t was all RICH
there, but if it had been in one of our
churches it would have been Romish. So
much for names and preiudiees"
st. Johns parish, Bridgeport Conn.
are about to build a new church, to cost
$4,000.
The Episcopal Female Tract SOciet
of Pennsylvania published in 1869, 5000
copies of tracts, and distributed in difel
emit parts of the country one hundred al &
twenty-four thousand pages.
The Bishop of Albany has been pr
sented with a very elegant Episcopal seal
by the parish of the Advent, Boston, OF
bloodstone set in solid gold. The size
IA inches long, by l 1-2 in width. Il
has upon it besides scriptural emblems
the coat OF arms of the city of Albany.
Six or eight members of st. Paul.
parish, of Indianapolis, have shouldered
the debt upon the parish, of $4,000.
"A layman of the Diocese of Albany
has purchased 1000 copies of Rev. T. K
Beecher's sermon on the P. E. Church, Il
supply rectors and missionaries gratuit
ously.
There are in London 651 Episcopa
churches. In 1859 there is weekly com
munion psalter chanted in over 300
daily service in 1872; supplied choirs il
1877, and free seats in 200.
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
q. H. Shinn has accepted call to tb-
Uoiver-alist parish in Gaysville, VT.
Re- NJ H Harris is to become pastor
of the UnlNersalist society at BrattlebOro
Rev. VIM 7. Stone, formerly paste.
of the Universalist church in BrattledOro
is preaching in New Orleans.
The American Unitarian Conference
has made erraugerneut~ with John krizar
Bishop of the Unitarian Consistory d
Hungry, TO have parts Of Claiming
works trtnzt.,rd into Hungarian.
METHODIST.
a revival il in progress in AlbuIgb
There are Is, SIP German Methodist r
this country
The Methodist Sabbath School u
Brattleboro has just received \ library Of
about 200 volumes.
AN extensive revival Is in progress liz
Wtstfield, Mass. Seyenty-eight were re-
Gently baptized in the Methodist church
The publishers of Zion's Herald have
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