The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-04-02
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
RESIGNATION OF REV. MR.. BURFoRD.
THE T-wESTY-rHIRD A OF LENT,
A. D., 1870.
In b name Of the Father, and % the Son
and OF the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Guided, as / trust, by the most
solemn convictions of duty and hum
bly, looking to God for mercy, 1 offer
my resignation as Rector Of the
Church of the Holy Innocents, to
take effect on Tuesday in Easter
Week, A. d. 1870.
SPRUILLE BURFoRD. Rector.
To the Church WaTdens and Vestrymen
OF the church of the Holy Innoeents,
Evansville, Ind.
TO h Congregation of the Church of the
Holy Innocents.
Dearly Beloved in the Lord;
Tuesday in Easter Week, A. ID.
1870, will witness the close Of my
pastorate among you.
Rest assured it has cost me no
small struggle to reach this conclu-
sion. As your first Rector, l feel that
the ties which have bound us together
cannot be sundered without the deep
est regret and unfeigned sorrow, on
my part.
stood in the chanoel Of this beau
tiful Memorial ChaTch, when the Right
Reverend Father in God, receiving it
as a loving gift from generous and
noble Christian hearts, consecrated
it to the honor and glory Of a Tri-
une God. Ever since that happy day,
/ have gone IN and out before you as
your unworthy pherd. But now,
as l am called to feed another
flock in a distan yiocese, let me as
sure you that d pirit and yearning
affection l shall HDld you in pleasant
and perpetual m1nory.
Especially deeF TO my heart. must
those ever BE. whom the Holy Spirit
has, through mT humble min~istratlons,
led to TeResO TIE s0lenan vo11s of Holy
Baptism, and then, for the first time,
20 receive the Blessed Communion of
the Bodv aud Blood of Our Lord
Jesus Chris. Whereby alone We obtain
remission OF cur sins, and are made
partakers ot She Kingdom OF Heaven.
Beloved let my farewell council
be, that ye stand fast In the liberty,
Whereyitb Christ has made you free"
/" Hold fast the form of sound words,
and the good profession you have
made before many witnesses. he
member how the Great Shepherd has
said. " He that continueh TO the end
shall be saved. BE strong and of a
GOOD courage = y \ and the LORD,
lie it is that doth go before thee.
Should Gods providence ever per-
NIT me to revisit you, nothing will
give me greater happiness than to be-
holdyou continuing 10 follow CHRIST
as dear children" In the beautiful
WAYS OF His Church-to see you not
only IN undivided Parish, but greatly
increased in love for the Master,
stronger In numbers, working zeal
ously for the salvation of souls. Bat,
should suck a privilege be denied me,
may Z not reasonably hope to hear of
yoSr ~afairs-that "ye stand fast in
one S9irit, with one mind, striving to-
gether for the faith of the Gospel.
Receive your neat Rector with the
same warm love and confidence with
which you have blessed your first
Rector.
And. now in bidding you an o6ec-
tomato faresCeI, | shall ever humbly
pray-"O God, Holy Ghost, Sancti-
Ger of the Faithful, visit this congre-
CATION with thy love and favor; en-
tighten their minds more and more
with the light of the everlasting gos-
pei; graft In their hearts a tcve of the
ruth; increase in them true religion a;
nouriSh them with all goodness; and OF
thy great mercy keep them an the same,
d, blessed Spirit, whom with the
Father and the Son together we wor-
ship and glorify as n God, world
without end, Amen.
Your friend and pastor In Christ
Jesus. SPRUILLE BURFORD.
TWenty-third day OF Lent, A. ID. 1870.
Rev. Mr.. FooTE, a missionary OF
the Episcopal Church, at Salt Lake, is
now at the East seeking aid for Bishop
Tuttle's Mission at that city.
During the entire three years since
Bishop Tuttle's arrival, he aad his
clergy have been, (and still are,) the
only Christian Ministers at work in
the territory. Bishop Tuttle found
two communicates. aud twenty-f Eve
others protesting and calling them
selves Christians, and these surround
ed by persecution and treated as out
casts by the Mormons. One hundred
and six persons have since been bap-
tised. A Sunday School has been es-
t@5lished with one hundred and thir.
ty-kve pupils, and a day school with
two hundred scholars. Three young
men formerly Mormons, are now
studying for the ministry of the Epis.
copal Church.
THE New Haven Palladium gives
the following statistics, showing the
relative increase Of the Evangelical
Churches Of hat city and Hartford
during the last nine years. 1t shows
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