Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-09
Religious IntelliSence.
BAPTIsr

d BAPTIST.
The Baptist church in Hinesburgb
It VT, is enjoying revival influences.
), Rev. Josiah Keene Of WAYNE, Me.
= has accepted a call from tbs Fres Baptis
e church in Wells.
. "A New England Baptist Edueations
Convention is to be held in Worcester
! Mass, on the Sd and 9TH of Nav next, t.
: which The boards and faculties of uniyer
. stiles. of theological institutions ani
academies in New England, connected
! with the Baptist denomination, are desired
, to send delegates-ten each from the uni
= versities and the theological institutions
and eight each from the academies. The
y proceedings will consist of papers on as.
signed topics, restricted as near as posi-
BILE to 30 minutes, to be succeeded by oral
. discussions, these topics embracing all the
interests Of higher education
CONGREGATIONAL.
1t Is stated that Rev. D. B. Bradford
Of Randolph, Vt, is invited to the pas
torate Of the church at ST Adams Bay,
VT,
DR.. Rich Of Beverly, Mass, accepts
the call to the pastorate of the church at
West Lebanon, n. n, and enters upon
his LAHORE.
The Rev G. Smith Of East Concord
4o1 L.
tional church at Lyndeborough Center,
N. Ell.
Col. Franklin Fairbanks recently pre-
sented valuable library for teachers in
the Sunday School of the North Church
at st. Johnabury, Vt.
Rev. Geo. E. Street leaves Wiscasset
and goes to Exeter, n. Fl.
There ia special religious interest at
Newbury, Vt, and some hopeful CONVEX
sions are reported,
"A very precious revival commenced
in New Alstead, N. H, with the Week of
Prayer, and has been in progress since, re-
sulting thus far in the hopeful conversion
of about 80
| Rev. f. D. Aver, pastor of the First
Congregational Church at Concord, N. h,
has just completed. ready for the press,
| church manual. containing full histori.
cal sketch of that venerable church. I'll
was organized Nov. IS, 1870, with 8 mem.
bers. The whole number connected with
it since it's formation ia !, 457 the present
membership rs 240.
Rev. Charles w. Clark leaves the
work of the pastorate at Charlotte, Vt |
He preached farewell discourse last Sab |
bath
EPISCOPAL.
In Hannibal, Missouri, are some 300
:andinaviana. 60 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 tiourishing parish is the Rev
VIM. G. Hopkins, son of the late Bishop
Hopkins of Vermont
LIBERAL. CHRISTIAN.
A festival at Mt Pleasant, Iowa, re-
turned 5000 for the repair and improve
ment fund.
The society in Fitchburg, Mass. real
lied $340 from fair.
The church in Auburn, Me, is under
going repairs and enlargement
DR.. Chaplin is giving a course of lee
lures in the Church of the Divine Pater-
nifty, n. Y, on THE Life and Character
Of st. Paul"
"A "Protracted meeting" is announced
At Newtown, o, TO be conducted by Miss
Prudy LeClerc
between two and three hundred dol
ars were realized from a festival lately
leld by the Liberal Christian Society in q
Norwich, Ct
The Scotland, CT, Society has pos O
essed itself of about $500, to be used in v
epairs, by means of fair a
METHODIST.
Quarterly meetings in Vermont Sab
ath 9th, at Worcester, Richford and E. 8
Highgate, Isle Ii Mott, North I.
Zero, Lyndon, Sheffield, Bloomfield, IL
Landgrove and Weston {
Tho Methodist Book Committee has b
ppointod eight experts who will begin n
Immediately an investigation of the af- al
IRIS of the Book Concern. in
Ten persons recently received the or Is
nance of baptism at the Methodist ~
lurch in Bellows Falls, VT +,
The Methodist Society in Newmarket, in
e H, will soon commence the erection OF nj
new church edifoe, which, With the OF
nd, will cost about $4,000. ;pe
The late Abel Minard of Morrist.,w di
z, left 100000 to the Drew Tlteo- pr
gica! Seminary at Madison, to be used 10
permanent fund, in aiding indigo ut
ung women in obtaining a ministerial III
uoation. pr
Rev, ID. w. Dayton, now at Glover- NO
lie, N. Y, says that for three or fou fiji
'eks past there has been much religion s st
'erest in that place; large meetings ar IA "a,
Id daily. and over fifty conversions ar a."
eady numbered, of persons from 65 -;
years of age. ",
ladies of the Congr,s-l od
honai society held fair on Wednesdf ~ lilo
Thursday last The gross receir It's Sc
re over $500. or
r, .-...... thi
.The winter term of the Graded Sci lool OO
sed on Friday. The examination and ha
'reIses OF the several departments ex- loo
tied marked progress in the trldies PEI
sued, and fully vindicslted the vii ,dom o IIs
efficiency of the pres snt system. Six inc
the seven teachers who were employed leg
'he opening of the school, about three S
rs ago, still continue with it; and
Ibtless much of its su, ,cess ia to be at dul