Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-06-23

ings for this object are solicited. ANY
sums, however large or small, will be
gratefully received by the Society, al
ready thankful for the aid granted to
them. Donations may be handed to the
pastor, Rev. W. Fitz, to the Treas, l. d.
P, Rowell.
"A Memoir of the late Rev. DR.. Stow
is in preparation; all interested in the
book, and all who can aid the author BY
sending any facts or items Of interest, OF
copies of letters written by him, will con.
fer great favor. ALI communications
may be addressed to Mrs. Elizabeth L.
Stow, 90 Harrison Avenue, Boston. II
is to be hoped that the friends and &C.
quaintances of DIR. Stow will bear this in
mind.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Repairs of the house of worship in
Hartland, VT, are in progress.
Rev. E. n. Ellington declines the call
to the pastorate of the North Church, st.
Johnsbury, vt.
Rev. Myron A. Munson, late of Pitts
ford, VT, has engaged to supply the
church at Mortified, Mimi, during the
month of June.
Rev. J. c. Houghton, who has labor
ed with the church in Coventry the past
year, is now at Island Pond.
D. ID II por,or5 Iata Of William,
town, Vt, has accepted call to the pas
torate of the church at Westhampton,
Mass, and he desires all communications
for him to be directed to the latter place.
The Caledonia County conference Of
Congregational churches held their an
nual meeting at Peachman, Tuesday and
Wednesday, June 14th and 18th. The
attendance was not large.
The Congregational Sunday School
of Middlebury, had present at its weekly
session on Sunday about two hundred
members.
Proposals for building the new Con-
gregational church in Manchester, are to
be opened on the 10Th inst, and the con-
tract awarded,-provided any of said
proposals are satisfactory to the building
committee,
Rev. A. A. Smith of Lowell, Vt, had
an attack in March of epidemic influenza.
from which a hoarseness of lungs and
slight difficulty of voice remains. Not
heedingit then, and taking few weeks fol-
rest and care, he is now obliged to take a
longer time to secure himself from per-
manent bronchial difficulty.
The Franklin and Grand Isle Con-
ference of Congregational churches meet
at East Berkshire, June 7th. All the
churches were represented except two.
what from the Jubilee year.-most of the
discussions relating to the Congregational
polity and practice. The subject of Tenn.
perance was discussed.
The general Convention of Congre-
gational Ministers and churches Vermont
will meet, as heretofore announced, at
Montpelier June 21st. 1t is requested
that all delegates who propose to attend
should notify Rev. DIR. Lord, of Montpe-
lier, at once, that arrangements may be
made for their entertainment,
1T is said that the richest Congrega-
tional church in New England, is the
Center church, in Hartford estimated
wealth, S15.000,000.
EPISCOPAL.
AT the late annual oon ventiou of the
new code of canon law, which is in every
respect vast improvement upon the for
mer. Among other improvements, vestry-
men must be communicates and in their
election at the Easter parish meeting, the
possession or occupancy of pew is not
economically recognized at all. 1t lies en-
tirely with the vestry to decide how pa
rishioners shall support the Church, in
order, if they be not communicates, to
obtain a vote. Also, the number of ves-
trymen may now range from three to
eleven.
Christ Church, Springfield, Mass,
seems blessed with new life under its
present rector, DIR. Burgess, now less than
one year in the field. The offerings at
Easter-tide were more than five thousand
dollars.
The Bishop of Vermont, in his late
annual address, advocated the custom of
the congregation rising and standing rev.
erently, "when the priest humbly pre-
sents and places the offerings upon the
Holy Table," by which the congregation
joins visibly in the oblation."
Proper steps have been taken toward
the division of the Diocese of Massachu-
sets.
AT the late annual convention of
Pennsylvania, that Diocese was divided,
making now three Dioceses within, the State
of Pennsylvania, viz: Diocese of five
counties, including Philadelphia; the for
mer Diocese of Pittsburgh, comprising the
western third of the State; and new
Diocese between the two. Bishop Stearns
will probably remain Diocesan of the
Philadelphia Diocese.
An edition of the Book of Common
Prayer for gratuitous distribution and the
missionary work of the Diocese has been
issued by the Bible and Prayer Book So
ciety of Albany, which has the Psalter
pointed for chanting and collection of
hymns from ancient and modern and
other sources.
The death of Bishop Kemper of Wis
consin on the Gath of May marks an era
in the history of the American Church.
He was consecrated in 1885, and his Do
cese comprised then what are now the
Dioceses of Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri,