Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-04-06
Religious Intelligence.


he,uay night March SUth, ngcd 20 yenfN-heN
W. l.. Noyes, of Sutton, has accepted a call L
become the pastor Of the Frcowll Baptist churcl
Of st. Johnsbury, and will commence his labor
the first sabbath in April.--There are in Obi,
~ .Iaj Baptist communicates. and q, POI in Ind
In Ind. the increase last year was 632 The Bap-
lists of PENNSYLVANIA note an Increase during
years Of l7,G06 members.-lhe Baptists have
in England and Wales 2 4i3 minister's ca in Scot
land, and 81 in Ireland In Europe and the Cot
onies they have 200 churches and SO $50 mem
bers--Prof. VIM. j. Knapp has been Tor seven
months in Madrid building up a Protestant mis-
sion there. lie has had four halls in the most
dcnsely populated parts Of the city, capable Of
holding 100 people, and the lowest ESTIMATE
gives 500 hearers per nights complete is Mr..
Spurgeons ecclesiastical system that it includes
not only Bible classes, pastors college an or
phanage, almshouses, schools, outlying chapes,
and ministrations, all complete and in regular
harmonious working but, says Mr., Sturgeon
himself, 4" have 4 200 members on my church
books, and if one of them got tipsy should know
it before the week was out
CONGREGATIONAL.
In st. Johnsbury East, the revival which com
menced with the week Of pnyor still continues
The church has bat about fifty resident MEMBERS
and there have been nearly or quite that number
of conversions. The pastor prepared for the work
by very faithful visitation of the parish, and
the church entered with a very paycriul spirit
upon the new ycar-Rey. Z II Ellington has
been supplying the North Church in st. Johns
bury for about two months Prof Brainord is
supplying the church in New llayen.--Rey \.
$. Barton is supplying the church in Chelsea
Rev Calvin Chapman, of Evansville, n Y, is
engaged to labor with the Congregational church
at Windham.-Rey W A. James, having been
detained in Chelsea two months after his dismis-
sion, by a revival Of religion which began after
the week of prayer, left his field Of labor for rest
March |. The revival resulted in fly or sixty
conversions Delegates to the Chicago conycn-
ton Winooski Association, Rcys. c. Z. Perrin,
and 5. L. Bates Grand Isle and Franklin County
Conference, Rev. c. b. Cady and Mr.. L. l..
butcher, Primaries Rev H. c. Riggs and Mr..
George Adams, Substitutes. White River Asso-
citation, Rev j. II. Edwards.-Mr. j. T. Graves
of the senior class Andover (Nlass.) Theological
Seminary, will spend the coming spring vacation
in missionary labor at East Calais. Mr.. c. i.
Mitchell, of the same class, will labor at Plym-
outh during the same time.-Rev. Cyrus Offer
was installed pastor of the Congregational church
at East Smithfeld, Pa. March &. This church
was plantcdby colony from Vermont GO years ago.
The general assembly Of the Presbyterian church
IN the United States meets in Philadelphia, the
18th of May.--Rey. DR.. Stone collected in Boston
for the Pacific Theological Seminary about ST.
OO0.-The Sabbath School connected with the
Congregational Church in Greensboro, was or
ganized in 1914, by Colonel A. Washburn after
wards of Montpelier, and has been in operation
without interruption to the present time. It is
said to be the oldest Sabbath School in the State.
Mr. John L. Porter has been member Of the
,hool from the time it was first organized which
lifty-six years.-The Lalayette-ayenue Church
(Rev. DIR. Cuyler's) Brooklyn, n. y. have re-
ceived one hundred new members since January
iirst.-Two of the doacons in Park Street church,
Boston, have gone 10 other churches and a third
has resigned his Office, because they do not agree
with the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Murray.
EPISCOPAL
Rev George c. Pennei, late of Buffalo, has as
sumed the chief rectorship Of Christ's Church,
at Rouses Point, n. Y.-The Episcopalians are
opening church reading rooms in Boston.
building is to be secured at an expense Of Sl0,-
O00.--Forty-one persons were confrmedby Bishop
Eastburn in one church in Lowell, Mass re
Gently. --Rev. Ralph lioyt has accepted the call
to the Episcopal church at Bennington
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
Rev. l.. Warren, Uniyersalist, is to preach in |
North Montpelier, during the present year Rev.
j. b. Morse breaches to the Uniyersaiist society !
in South Woodstock The Boston Unirersdhsf
having charged that the Untarians were trying
to " swamp Universalism'' in Vermont, and that
the Champlain Liberal Christian Conference was
nm imposition and nm offence in the eyes Of
many Uniyersalists,' the Repository replies at
some length 1t says the Uniyersalists have al
ways been large majority Of every meeting Of
the Liberal Conference, and have always had il
all their own way that it is as far us possible
from being Unitarian concern" inasmuch as
the President Secretary and half Of the Board Of
Directors are Unyersalists, ami the entire control
Of Missionary work and the expenditure of money
is in the hands Of q committee Of old-time trusty,
and well-known Uniyersalsts that the Confer
ence is harmonious and has helped the Uniyer-
salist cause in the State and it deprecatcs such
an offensive opening Of controversy on the sub
.iect.--Rey. w. II. Ross of the Cambridge diyin. |
ity school has been called 10 the Unitarin church
at Casteton. ---Rev Robert Laird Collier an
nounced to his Chicago congregation, Sunday, |
that he had under consideration call to the pas
torate Of the Church Of the Unity, Boston, which |
announcement caused such an affecting demon
stration in the congregation that he sprang up
md said that he had determined to live and die !
with them.-Ihe Unitarian Society at St. Adams
have voted to extend the leave Of absence Of their
pastor, Rev. l. G. Ware, for three months Mr.. |
Ware, when last heard from, was at Venice lie
preached in the Protestant chapel in Florence
few Sundays since.
METHODIST.
Enough money has been pledged to secure the |
erection Of new Methodist house in Montpelier, |
and the work is to be commenced upon at once
The Annual Conference Of the Troy NJ. +. Church,
will meet at Burlington, on the 2sth of April
Hubbardton, Rutland County, is the scene Of an
interesting religious revival Rev. j W. Nudge
Of Providence, Rhode Island il assisting The
ordinance Of baptism was recently administered to
wenty-seyen persons in the Benson Methodist
hurch. Forty were admitted on probaton.-
The Advocate sums up 3,l9l clerical votes thus
far in favor and SIS against lay delegation 1t |
reckons that the remaining votes will make a to-
tai Of 4,4i6 and zoe against it, which would
make 30 negative votes in excess the one-quar-
ter necessary to defeat the measure. It is Ger
tain that there is great doubt whether the meas
ure will be adopted. It's strongest opposition
comes in the Eastern conferences that are yet 10
vote,-rhe annual New Hampshire Methodist
conference Will commence its session at Nashua
on "Wednesday Of next week, Bishop Simpson pre-
siding.-At the recent Methodist State Confer
encc IN Syracuse, paper was read making the
number OF members OF that denomination in the