Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-11
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Religious Intelligence.
BAPTIST.

Religious Intelligence.
. BAPTIST.
Rev. Horace Stiles of Albany, VT,
has accepted the pastoral charge of the
Free Baptist church in Sheffield, VT.
REV. A. B. Earle, the Baptist Evan.
gelist, was preaching, at last accounts, in
Houston, Texas.
The Baptist Missionary Union closes
its financial year without debt. The re-
ceipts have been $202, 500.
Rev. Mr.. Goodnow has entered upon
the twelfth year as pastor of the Baptist
church in Wilmington.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Rev. E. B. Clark of Chicopee, Mass,
has resigned the pastorate of the First
Congregational church of Chicopee, posi-
ton he has filled with fsithfulness and
acceptance for term of 80 years.
Rev. Mr.. Bogue of Vergennes has re-
turned from the west and resumed his
pastoral labors.
Rev. Joel F. Bingham, d. d., former
ly 8 Presbyterian and late pastor of the
Congregational church at Augusta, Me,
has been admitted to deacon's orders at
Hartford, in the Episcopal church.
In the Rutland and Bennington Con-
ference (Vt.) there are twenty-eight
churches, embracing 1852 members, thirty
seven ministers. of which ten are pastors.
The entire average number in the congre-
cations is 1916, and the number of fami-
lies is 1889. .....-
Rev. Mr.. Fertel has commenced his
service as paster of the Congregational
church In Wilmington.
EPISCOPAL.
We learn from the Church Journal that
on Easter day the following churches of
Brooklyn and Long Island, made remark
able ofertories for church purposes, viz
st. AIMS, the Rev. DIR. Schenck, rector,
gave over $4,000 for parochial objects
St. Peters, the Rev. DIR. John A. Paddock,
rector, over $4,000 towards a new chapel
and Sunday school building, Grace church
on the Heights, the Rev. DIR. B. FL. Pad
dock, rector, the Rev. Anson r. Graves,
formerly of Rutland) assistant minister,
$4,000 for the Church Charity Foundation
besides more than $4,000, for missions
within the last two or three months y; st. |
James, the Rev. G. w. Homer, rector, |
besides many other gifts of late,) $4,000
for its City Mission work the Church of
the Redeemer, the Rev. e. Jessup, rector,
5000 for indebtedness st. Paurs, the
Rev. DR.. browne, rector, nearly $4,000,
the result of its Lenten work, for a Sun
day school chapel and Holy Trinity, the
Rev. DIR. Hall, rector, $4,000, being the
amount of its old debt. Many other par
ishes in other places have done likewise,
and NAV the number increase year ty
year.
The Easter offering of st. James
Church. Keene, N. H.. the Rev. CIV.
Brown, rector, amounted to over 500, |
and was appropriated toward new font,
to be erected in memory of the late Dio-
cesan Bishop Chase.
The present Bishop of New Hamp-
shire, the Rev. DR.. Niles, has received |
$50, an Easter present for mission work |
in his Diocese, which came from an un-
known friend, through the offertory at
Trinity Church, Hartford, ct. Students
of Trinity College, and others have also
remembered him in like manner.
AT Easter, in st. Johns Mission, Sy-
racuse, N. Y, each child received plant
growing in small flower pot, for culti-
walton, to be returned next year at Easter
Some hundred plants were thus dis
tributed.
AT Easter, in st. Marks Church,
New Orleans, La, flowers were so abund-
ant that three immense arches, some
eighteen feet high, covered with white
roses, besides many other floral devices,
graced the chancel. g
AT Christ Church, Vicksburgh, Miss,
the children made their annual Easter
present, being Corona for the church.
Last year it was very beautiful window,
and the year before handsome marble
font. Give the children enough to do in
the Church, interest them in its festivals,
the harvest of good works will rapidly
increase.
AT the children's Easter service at
the Church of the Nativity, Huntsville
Alabama, their offerings amounted to
nearly 5000. - g
The Sunday School of st. Johns
Church, Montgomery, Alabama, made its
Easter offering for the building of the
new Orphan Asylum. 1t was the result
of the work and self. denials of its mem
bers during Lent, and amounted to $1,000
Last year it amounted to $17OO. The
vestry have lately added $1,000 to the
salary of the rector, the Rev. Mr.. String
fellow.
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
| Rev Elmer Hewitt commences his Ia
bors as pastor of tbs Universal Society in
Woodstock on Sunday, May 7th.
Rev Geo. s. Gurnsey has been en-
gagged by the Universalist Society in
Chester to preach one.half the time in the
stone church, commencing the second
Sunday in May. +
The Universalist annual services
commences in Boston Sunday, May 2Sth,
and close June I'd.
Rev. G. s. Gurnsey breaches at Han
] cock on Sunday, May 7th.
Rev. Samuel Longfellow occupied
the Unitarian pulpit at Brattleboro, the
two last Sundays of May.
Rev. Mr.. Ballou, of Wilmington has
entered the fifteenth year of his pastorate
of the Universrlist church in Whining
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