Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-19
Religious Intelligence.


School Convention is to be held at Rut-
land, June LIST.
Rev. Mr.. Mattison of Brattleboro
baptized eight at Dummerston, on Sum
day, May 8th.
The Church. in Dummerston, has re.
ceived twenty rdditions from the fruit of
revival. -....
Rev. Mr.. McClymont of Hamilton
Theological Seminary is supplying the
pulpit at Dummerston.
Rev. Ell. G. Dewitt has been preach
ing at Wilmington. Sixty or seventy
have been converted.
The Lamoille Baptist Ministerial
Conference is to be held at Johnson, May
31st.
Rev. J. X. Chase writes the Boston
Reflector:
al closed my labors in Vershire, Vt,
last Sabbath. The day will long be re-
membered. Four converts, all in the
morning of life, followed Christ in bap-
tism, three of whom are children of the
clerk of the church, and two heads of
families. Five received the hand of fell
lowship. 1t was hard to leave this dear
people, but we trust it is at the call of the
Master"
The First Baptist Church at Lewis
ton, dedicate their elegant house of wor-
ship on the 18th. With the lot it cost
$4,000. 1t is of Gothic style, with truss
roof, English clear story, finished through
out in black walnut, with fine glass and
fresco work The auditorium seats 700,
and chapel % by 40 feet is connected by
folding doors with convenient ante-rooms.
G.. E. Meacham of Boston, is the architect.
Rev. E. III. Haynes, the pastor expects
the presence of Rev. DIR. Woods of Alton,
Ill, former beloved pastor, at the ap-
preaching dedication.
"A Council of Baptist Churches is
called, by the Baptist church in South
Acworth, N. H., to consider the propriety
of ordaining Mr.. Cornelius J. Wilson, to
the pastorate of the church, to be held at
South Acworth, May 10Th. Among the
churches invited to send Pastor and Dele
gate, are Windsor and Bellows Falls, on
the Vermont side of the river.
Rev. Mr.. Whiting, pastor of the Bap-
fist Church in Windsor, Vt, preached
last Sabbath, p. m, his twentieth anniver-
sary sermon in the Gospel ministry. He
was ordained May Sth, 1850, at Hartford,
ct, He sailed shortly after for Assam,
India, and after eleven years abroad, re-
turned to this country, where he has
since been preaching; seven years, he was
pastor at Colchester, thence he came to
Windsor.
CONGREGATIONAL.
There are 1925 scholars connected
with the Sabbath schools of the Congre-
gational churches in Vermont.
There were So baptisms in the Con-
gregational churches in Rutland county,
in 1869.
There are 104 members of the Con-
gregational church in Rutland who are
not resident here.
There are male "a, females 154l PAS
members of the Congregational church in
Rutland.
Rev. P. B. Fisk has declined the call
to preach at Lyndonville.
-Forty-fve persons united with the
Congregational church at East st. Johns
bury, May LIST.
-Twenty-three persons were received
into the church in Laconia. n. H, Rev.
FL. NJ. Stone, pastor, May LIST, by profess
sion.
Rev. William Warren and Rev. o.
P. Allen, Missinary from Harpoot, East
ern Turkey, are holding conventions to
be continued till the last of June, in New
Hampshire and Northern Vermont.
Rev. P. T. Barnard was dismissed
from the Congregational church in Viii.
liamston, May 4th.
EPISCOPAL.
From the Army militant to the
Church militant, Capt. Charles Carroll
Parsons U. S. A. and Professor at West
Point, has been entered as candidate for
holy Orders in the diocese of Tennessee.
The Bishop of California has just
confirmed in two churches of San Fran
cisco, GO persons.
The Parish of st. Luke's Church
Cambridge, n. Y, Rev. G.. Graves Rec
tor, is making a worthy effort with the
help of its friends to be rid of its debt of
$1,000, $523,13 have been received from
outside, and with couple of hundred or
so more the Parish would stand debt free
A new and snug little church building to
be consecrated as soon as paid for, and
most devoted rector are among their solid
encouragements.
"A beautiful altar and reredos of Caen
stone are nearly complete for Bishop Nee
ly's cathedral in Portland paid for by
the gifts of the Cathedral parish children.
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
Rev. George Z. Guernsey will preach
at Shrewsbury, on Sunday, May %.
Seven members were added to the
Universalist church in Whining ton at
the annual church meeting on Wednes- |
day, last week.
Sixteen members were recently re-
oeived into the church in Iowa City where
Rev. Miss Chaplin is pastor.
The Nay Sunday School Anniversa-
ries at New York will take place in DIR.
Chapin's church on the 18th inst.
Nashua, n. H., started the Centenary
ball in the Granite State. It raised $1,000 |
as its portion.
The last sermon preached by Rev.
Rowland Connor before his society ex-
hailed, was on "The Religion for To-mor-
row." and the Christian Register asks: OF
what conceivable use can Religion for
Tomorrow" be to society which is dv-