Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-02-23
Religious Intelligence.
BAPTIST.

BAPTIST
Rev. L. Chickering of Littleton, N
H., has entered on his labors as pastor Of
the Baptist Church in Weston.
Between twenty-five and thirty per.
sons have presented themselves for mem.
bership with the Baptist Church in Bur
lington, as fruits for the present revival.
Rev. I. V. Lentell, pastor of the Bap.
tist Church in Stamford, has been made
the recipient of 1882 from his parishion.
ers.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Rev. L. s. Watts of Barnet has re-
ceived a cali to the Presbyterian church
in Monticello, Ill.
Rev. E. H. Byington of Windsor has
accepted the call of the Congregational
church in Brunswick, Me.
Secretary Clark of the American
Board, has leave of absence for a few
months, partly for health and partly to
visit the missions of the Board in West
ern Asia. He was TO sail from New York
on the 9th inst.
Rev. III. Fl. Wells expects to close
bis labors at Lyndon, Vermont, in April
next.
The South Church at st. Johnsbury
have resumed their second sermon on the
Sabbath, but have it in the evening in
stead of the afternoon as formerly.
The Congregational church at Derby
Center will be re.dedicated on Friday the
Gath inst
The Congregational Society of Hyde
park will erect church, the coming
summer. having purchased the land for
that purpose.
Rev. P. B. Fisk of Lyndonville, Vt,
issued pastoral letter TO bis people, in
which he says the number of members of
his church is Al, of Sabbath school 1913, of
average congregation 200. The entire
parish subscriptions and contributions
were 81, ,82425.
Col. Franklin Fairbanks. superinten-
dent, has caused to be put into the North
church, st. Johnsbury, very valuable
library for the use of teachers in the Sun
day school The library includes COM
mentaries on the old and new testaments,
works on standard theology, church gov
ernment and worship, treatises on the
Bible, etc, in all to the number of nearly
one hundred and fifty volumes.
EPISCOPAL.
The Episcopal Church of Montpelier
is without pastor, and is likely to re-
main so for the present, es bat little eff
fort is being made to obtain one.
Rev. Mr.. Drumm, rector of the Epis-
copal Church at Woodstock, is recovering |
from his illness. and ia expected to be able
to oficiate next Sabbath. |
Rev. DIR. Douglass, rector of st. |
PsuPs Church, Windsor, had bis pocket
picked at the depot in Springfield, Mass,
and $40 or over taken thsrefrom, while
passing through that place on recent
journey.
Bishop Bissell of the Diocese of Ver-
mont, has lately, during the indisposition
of Bishop Williams, ordained four persons
in the Diocese of Connecticut, and ad-
ministered Confirmation at each service.
In Hannibal, Missouri, are some 300
Scandinavians, go adults of whom have
requested the use of the parish church,
for Sunday afternoon services, to be con-
Quoted, by their own lay-reader. The rec
tor of this fourishing parish is the Rev.
VIM. G. Hopkins, son of the late Bishop
Hopkins of Vermont, and the first rector
of st. Mary's Church, Mortified, where
his work was very much blessed. ,
ST. Georges Church, Schenectady, N
z, has been repaired and enlarged. Its .
rector is the Rev. DR.. Payne, formerly ,
Professor of Latin in Trinity College, I
Hartford, Conn. This Church, built in
1859, has been thrice enlarged, twice un-
der the happy rectorship of DR.. Payne.
Bishop Williams, of Conn, was his pre-
iecessor. Church services were first held {
in Schenectady in 1710. OF the celebrat- ,
ID Union College, located in this impor-
tant town, number of Bishops and
Church clergy have been Professors and
graduates.
1T is said that the Hon. Erastus Corn
ing of Albany, has just given 10000 to I
st. Agnes School, founded by Bishop 1
Doane, in that place. This school -four.
shes beyond even the expectations of it's /.
friends, and is about to remove into larger
and more commodious quarters. May
such liberal donations to the cause of re-
igion and learning be multiplied.
On January Gath, the new parish t
house, comprising chapel, school rooms, 7
ETC., of st Paups Church, Troy, N. Y, I
was dedicated by Bishop Doane, who used .
, special service composed by him for
,uoh occasions 1t is an edifce of rare {
illness and completeness. 1t cost 100000, i
If which $4,000 was the gift of j. a.
wife. God bless such liberal donors!
G. I
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
Rev. Adm Bsllou takes the ground (
n the UnigerSalst that the denomination, G
Is an organized ecclesiastical body, was ..
Restorationist in faith, and SO /
in doctrinal exposition, without G
till after the year 1915. @
The net receipts of the recent festival
# the ladies of the Uniyersalist Society in ]
Brattleboro was 1915.
Mrs Charles Rogers Of Bradford,
mother of Rev. Barton f. Rogers, pastor !,
# the Universalist Church atWhitewater,