Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-10

Rev. &c. Cummings ofSt.Johnsbury,
lis now at Portland, Maine.
The Congregational church at Chel-
sea, VT, has arranged to have only one
sermon on the Sabbath during the hot
season. ....f .as9. ,ss1. .-. ,
w. 1t is stated that Frederick Billings,
ESQ, of Woodstock has offered one thous-
and dollars towards the erection Of q
house of public WORKSHOP in Billings-the
township which receives its name from
him. a"-
'..f. EPISCOPAL.
Bishop Bissell visited Shoreham in
June, and spent Sunday, holding two ser
vices which were we'll attended The
few church people there have been con-
nected with the parish at Middlebury,
twelve miles distant, or that at Ticonder-
oga, over the lake.
The service at Crandelrs Corners,
Easton, n. Y, heretofore held monthly,
will hereafter be held weekly,by the Rev.
W. B. Walker of Schaghticoke. His SER
vices at these two places alternate with
those at Johnsenville.
st. Georges Church, New York, of
which the Rev. DR.. Tying is rector, has
given, during his rectorship of now fifty
years duration-for all charitable and
religious purposes-over three millions of
dollars, instead of three thousand, as in
correctly printed in last weeks HERALD /;
besides three hundred thousand dollars,
instead of three thousand as then pub
lished, for building four churches and
six chapels. A magnificent record
THE Christian Year." published by
Pliny T. Smith of New York, is q new
monthly which has met, thus far, with
unparalleled success some fifty thousand
copies of the frat number July having
been struck off to meet the demand Each
number contains 112 pages, and it aims
to represent the whole church. Our
chief Bishops and divines are engaged to
write for it.
Bishop Whitehouse. of Illinois, has
appointed Sunday, August 18th, as the
time for his visitat ion of Christ Church,
Chicago. His letter is addressed ia the
wardens, and completely ignores Mr..
Cheney, who, although deposed from the
ministry, still oficistes for the parish.
The wardens reply that they will receive
the Bishop, but that Mr.. Cheney is still
their rector.
Trinity Church, Vineland, New Jer-
sey, was entirely demolished by the tor
made of July 10th. The sexton had just
opened the church for service. and barely
escased with his life.
The academy at Oxford, Chenango |
county, n. Y, has become a church insti-
tuition, the parish there having endowed
it with some eleven or twelve thousand
dollars.
in Hadley, Mass, on July 4th, at
the dwelling of T. G. Huntington-where
some thirty English people had gathered
on social oooasion-Bishop Huntington,
Of Central New York, improved the OPP
portunity by baptizing six of their chill
dren.
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN,
Rev. Georges. Guernsey, will preach
in Shrewsbury, August ~, and at Caven-
iish, August 9th and Goth.
The Universalist State Convention
ia to be held at Springfield, August 23d
and "a Preachers, Rev. C. W. Emer-
son of Mortified, and Rev. Z. S. Foster
If Chester.
w. NJ. Wrigh, recent graduate of
Dartmouth College. has been appointed |
Principal of the Perkins Institute at
South Woodstock.
METHODIST.
-Quartorly meetings in Vermont on
Sabbath 9th inst. at Proctorsville and
Ludlow, North Hydepark, Eden, and
ericho.a
The Methodists of Maine, are to hold |
A State eamp-meeting on the grounds OF
.he Kenuebec Valley Camp-meeting Az
at Richmond, commencing Au-
gust 9Th, and continuing till the 18th.
The statistics of the NJ. E. Church,
south, report 10 bishops; 1900 travelling
preachers; 400 local preachers; 500 600
white" members; 1900 colored mem
oers; 5000 Sunday Schools; AZ, 900 teach.
,rs $4,000 scholars.
At the National Oamp-meetipg at
Round Lake, n. Y, were five hundred
ents and an average of about five thou
and people and three hundred ministers.
t was the largest and most successful
Meeting of the kind yet held. A Union
National Camp meeting for all evaugelic-
i denominations is appointed to be held
lext year.
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