Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-09-21
Religious Intelligence.


connection with the Congregational church in
Ludlow, VT. the 1st of November The
post-ofco address Of Rev. p. b. Fisk. late Of
Pcacham w. is Lyndonvllo, Nt--Rev DR..
Seavor late Of Rutland w. now Of Brook.
Ign, n. Y, has been very i'll Of typhoid fever,
at Rutland, but it is said he is now recover.
ing.--Rev G. H. Hubbard and wife Of Ben
ninrton, W., we're handsomely greeted by
their people on their return from a European
tour Their friends in the State also bid them
wclcomo.--Rev. John Clark Of Plymouth, \.
H., is supplying the Congregation church in
Hebron, for six months-Rcv Joseph Blake
Of Gilmanton, n H. is still unable to resume
his pastoral labors.-Thc Olive street Chapel
in Nashua. n. H.. which was removed last
spring to the lot in the rear Of the parsonage
has been thoroughly repaired, and is now
nearly ready for usc.-Fourteen persons were
received into the church at Thctlord, Sept 4,
eight by professionally gil Of Charles f..
Latham, deceased % Mason a Hamlin Organ
has been placed in the Congregational house
at Thetlord.-Prof Park has arrived at An
dover in thorough physical health.--Prcsd-
ent McCosh Of Princeton is to lecture next
winter on the Evidences Of Christianity
At recent communion three Cinnamon were
admitted to the Congregational church in
Oakland, Cal This is said to be the first
case in which Chinese converts, brought to
Christ in California, have been received into
full fellowship with any American church.
They had first been taught in the Sabbath
school.-Rev. Mr.. Phelps Of Amherst Mass
has moved to Lowell and will supply the
Congregational pulpit for the next year
Rev. A. A. Smith has rendered his resigna.
ton, but the church have thus far refused to
accept it, choosing rather to supply substi.
tute and retain Mr. Smith as their pastor
lie is universally popular, and it is hoped
that his health will so improve as to enable
him to renew his abors there at the cxpira-
ton of year at least.--Rcv. G.. Hand Of
Brooklyn n. Y, among other charitable be-
quests, left 81 900 each to the V ermont C6ngre.
gational convention, the Congregational So
cety Of Shoreham, VT, and $500 to the Yer
mont Congregational missionary society
Bnphst
Rev. Mr.. Smith administered the ordinance
Of baptism to four young ladies at st. Adams
Bay, on Sunday afternoon. In the evening
the candidates were given the right hand Of
fellowship, and formally received into the
Canaan, n. H.. has entered upon his labors
as pastor Of the Baptist church, in Preston,
Conn.-Twenty persons have lately been re-
ceived to fellowship by the Baptist church in
Ludlow. Captain Wilson, Of Menomonee,
Wisconsin, is building Baptist house worth
$4,000, helping to build another at Cedar
Falls, and sends the Whitehall church S25.
Mississippi hasn't one doctor Of divinity
among its six thousand Baptists, while Chi.
cage has thirteen,
Methodist.
The English Weslcyans are moving for
statue TO John Wesley in Westminster Alb
bey.-The North Ohio Methodist Conference,
by considerable majority, has after a long
discussion, re-afhrmed its last years rule re.
quiring all candidates for ordination to pledge
themselves not to use tobacco.-The Boston
Theological Seminary, Methodist, opens its
next session in the fine new building on
Bromfeld street Besides the ordinary the
illogical curriculum, is offers instruction in
Theological Encyclopedia Missionary Sci
ence, Music, German, Rabbinical Hebrew,
Samaritan, etc.
Episcopal.
A Rectory is in process Of construction at
Poultney.-The ladies of the Episcopal church
at Sheldon, recently gave an entertainment
which resulted in adding some s2j to their
treasury for repairing their house of wor-
ship.-Rev. John Eaton Smith, for the past
six years an Episcopal minister, first at Water
bury Ct, aud afterward at Westport, died at
New Haven on Thursday, of consumption at
the age of 80 Miss Stocker, of Boston, has
left legacy Of $4,000 to the Assistant Bish-
op Of Ohio in trust, for the education Of
young men for the ministry.-The Church
Journal of New York has been purchased by
X. S. Houghton, NJ. D.-The Episcopalians
Of Portland claim to have "the first Angli-
can Cathedral" ever built in New England
Last year Al Episcopal clergymen died in
the United States and only two were under
80 years of age The oldest was SO and the
youngest 27.-The first session Of the House
of the Evangelists begins this month. This
is an institution connected with Rev. s. II.
Tying, Jr.'s, church in New York city, and
designed to train young men for oyangelistic
work among the poor in this and other cities.
Catholic.
Several of the professors in the colleges of
Rome who refused to sign the petition for
the PRONUNCIATION of the dogma Of niallibilty
have been dismissed. --Twenty-six German
professors of law and medicine at Munich,
Bavaria, have added their signatures to the
protest of the theological faculty against the
results of the qcumenical Council About
200 prelates remain in Rome during the va
cation of the Council, many of them in the
greatest poverty. The Pope is said to look
strong and happy and to entertain pious
confidence that he will not only see the 10Th
year Of his ponti6cate, but also the Jubilee
the year after, and close the Council
miscellaneous.
Bishop John, theological professor in Mos
COW, has been appointed Bishop of the Greek
church for America and the Aleutian Islands.
We believe he will have his residence in San
Francisco.-All the different bodies interested
have appointed committees to meet in confer
ence on the subject Of an organic union be-
tween the different Presbyterian bodies in the
Dominion Of Canada, and it is believed that
the result will be union at no distant period.
For August the receipts Of the American
Board were $4,000 against $4,000 the
same month last year.--ln Mr. Geo Muller's
last report, he says that since the beginning
Of his work for orphans he has received
in answer to prayer done G467 600, with
which nearly 10000 children have been
taught in the schools, and buildings erected,
at a cost of ell5,000, to accommodate
2,O5O orphans. During the past year, ! =
1856 orphans have been cared for in the
Ashley Downs Orphan Houso---Last
year the receipts of the American board
for August were upward of $4,000,
and it was hoped that this year the sum re.
ceiyed the same month would not be less than
100000, as ii was seen that something like
this amount would be requisite to meet ex-
penses and put the treasury in good condi-
ton. The new financial year commences
nominally September J. but as usual. the