Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-11
Religious Intelligence.
GENERAL.

Religious Intelligence.
GENERAL.
In the Polynesian group OF islands there a
said TO be 300 900 Christians--a remarkable resu
OF missionary effort.
The report Of the yearly meeting of the s.
cety of Friends shows $500 members in Ne
England.
The aggregate contributions to the leadir
religious societies of the United States, durir
the past year, were s6,4l2,9S7.
The Jewish temple on Fifth Avenue, Ne
York, closes its doors at the commencement of IL
services, and allows no one TO go out until IL
close.
The Rhode Island Baptist Education societ
is now in its eightieth year.
There are seventy-six Seventh Day Baptii
churches in the United States Reports froI
hfty-four Of them give membership of 6,67l.
The First Baptist church OF New York cit
recently celebrated its one hundred and eghtiet
anniversary Worshippers in this ancient churcl
met together as early early l745 in Cart
and-Horse street, now William street, but wer
not regularly organized until June 10, 1862.
There are in Rhode Island three association
with sixty Baptist churches, and forty-four pas
tors, and nine thousand three hundred and sixty
three members. The oldest church is the First
Newport, which was constituted in 1888, and is
thus two hundred and thirty-two years old.
The early settlers Of Sheffield, Vt, were
mostly Freewiu Baptists. In 1900, six years afte,
the town was first settled, the Baptists of this
town and Wheelock united, and the first church
was organized There were II members from
both towns. Id4S29 church was built
CONGREGATIONAL.
Rev. Ferdinand w Dickinson, who.is to leave
Turner, Me-, August l, goes to Coventry, VT
The regular meeting of the Addison ASCOT
alton of Congregational ministers has been post
poned until October
Its estimated that 81 900 900 will be necessary
to put the various Congregational Theological
Seminaries in the country upon proper found
ations.
The Trennial Catalogue Of Andover Semin-
airy shows the total number of students who have
enjoyed its advantages to be 1885, the whole num-
Der Of graduates being l,Gl8.
The church in East Hartford, Ct, was organ
lied in 1906 and, during the l75 years since, has
had but sevenpastors; only two during the first
81 years.
Rev. Adm circuit, for thirty-tive years mis-
sionary among the Zulus, has returned to this
country with his family, and proposes to make his
home in Springfield, Mass.
The "Congregationalist" shows that since 1881
the denomination has in Massachusetts added 2lS
new churches and over A, 900 members, thus near
ly doubling its ministry and more than doubling
its membership in the last 40 years.
The It'll of September is set for the public
celebration by the Congregationalists of Orleans
County, VT, of this 25Oth year since the landing
of the Pilgrims. mass convention of those in
terested in such commemoration is to be held |
on that day in the Agricultural Hall at Barton |
Pres. Angel of Buringtonis to deliver an address
in the afternoon, while the forenoon will be occu-
pied with brief actresses by several clergymen and
laymen of the county
EPISCOPAL,
he Springfield Republican says of a new mis- /
sion work Of the interchangeable rector of Spring.
field, DR.. Burgess; the High Churchmen evil
IDENTIFY mean business, for the foundations of a
new church or chapel are now going in over at
West Springfield.
The late Chester Adams of Hartford, has
left some $4,000 to different church institutions
Peter Badly, senior warden of Christ Church
Danville, gives $4,000 to the Episcopal fund OF
the new diocese in central Pennsylvania.
There were special services in st. AIMS
Church Brooklyn, and in other Episcopal
Churches appropriate to the day, on the 4th OF
July.
The tree-seat system, the only one in accor-
dance with the Gospel is rapidly spreading in all
parts Of the land, and always the result is a
pecuniary as well as spiritual gain to the
parish that adopts it. The Bishop of Vermont,
advocating it in his late address says. "We
hold that all men are equal before the law And
there is something specially grateful to the q
American mind to hear that there L. --Athar r
place also where all are equal, in the House of :,
God. In all new congregations it should be .
adopted from the beginning; and in our esta-
blished parishes, as soon it may be-" And he
also adds the inseparable condition Of the free
seat system, ''the method Of supporting the
church most agreeable to Scripture and the
primative practice is by voluntary contributions,
to be made Lords day" IL
The Rev. Dr.. PnkDey Of Washington is elected /
as assistant Bishop of Maryland. The present c
learned and beloved Diocesan was unable to c
speak aloud at the Annual Convention, his own c
address being read By of the presbyters. Ie
says.of Hymns ancient and modern, they care {
obviously Winning their way to general favor" {
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
Rev. J. B. Morse will preach in Shrewsbury,
Sunday, August l.
-rrof. o. Cone Will preach ia shoreham, Sum
day, August 7.
Rev j j. Lewis will preach in Wiuiston,
Sunday, July 81, and also Sundays through the
month of August.
Rev. George S. Guernsey will preach in South
Woodstock, Sunday, August 7; in Waitsheld,
Sunday, August II; in Shrewsbury, Sunday, Au-
gust 81 in Hancock, Sunday, August %. II
AT a recent centenary meeting in the Uni
versalist church, Springfield, Mass, $4,000 was
subscribed to pay a church debt II
The pastor of the Uniyersalistgsoci in Bar
re, the Rev. f. S. Bliss, has presided over that
church thirteen years. II
METHODIST.
-There is to be a Camp Meeting at JohnsburghI
Corners, N. ", commencing on the 18th of Aug
ust
The New Haven, VT, Camp Meeting begins
Monday, August Goth. Ii
Camp Meeting begins at Lyndonville August
90.
Camp Meeting at Mortified, Vt, August %.
Quarterly meetings at Brattleboro, Guilford
and Albany, Vt, August 9th and It'll.
Fourteen persons united with the Methodist ;
Episcopal church in Williamstown, VT, July ,
2Ath; twelve by profession. L,
Rev. DR.. Newman accepts Brigham Young'sl I
invitation to discuss polygamy at Salt Lake City,
and soon goes on for the battle.
The finest Methodist parsonage in the coun-
try is said TO be at Newark, N j. 1t cost s25 900,
and is elegantly furnished. Ii
Rev. Mr.. Hawley, the venerable father of the | 8
ex-governor and general, has been supplying the
place Of Mr.. Whitaker, pastor of the Methodist 1
church at WestAeld, Mass, during his three t
weeks absence. II
- The Boston Theological Seminary has en-
gagged the Rev. DIR. j. p. Thompson for the next l
course to lecture on Egyptology.
The Wesleyan Methodists in England, especi- I
ally in London, are troubled by what they call
''connectional leakage" G., the loss by removal