Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-01
Religious Intelligence.
BAPTIST.


iOnville, \. Y, January 8: ga power
/ ful revival has been in progress for sew
! eral weeks at Gardnersville. Eighty, or
/ more, have professed conversion.
4 On the first Sabbath in the month,
/ six were baptized by Prof. Gilmore into
/ the fellowship of the East Avenue
! church, Rochester, n. Z, and two By
! DR.. Nesbit, into the fellowship of the
Lake Avenue Baptist church.
David Lyman, counselloT-at-lav,
/ and Conference minister of the Metho-
/ dist church, was recently baptized into
| the fellowship of the Central Baptist
| church in Chicopee, Mass, by DR.. Will
bridge.
Rev. DR.. Warren, Foreign Secretary
the last two months, and serious appre-
tensions are felt for the result.
Rev. F. A. Douglass has removed
! from Piqua, Ohio, to East Baptist
church, Lebanon, Ohio.
Rev. A. Snyder leaves New Ipswich,
n. H, to assume the pastorate of the
church in Hopkinton, n. Fl.
The church at Wayne, n. Y, (the
/ oldest church in the Steuben Association
Rev. L. Breasted, pastor, after a long
season of drouth, is once more revived.
/ Twenty-fOur have been baptized; nine
more have been received as candidates
for baptism; others still come, and
many backsliders have been reclaimed.
The Home Mission Society have
raised the yearly salary Of their French
missionary, Rev. n. Cyr, of Rutland,
from 81, 200 to 1,500.
The Baptist church of Burlington,
Vt, have raised the salary Of their pas
. tor, Rev NJ A Wilcox, from 81, 500 TO
$4,000.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The church at Brandon, VT, re-
ceived ten.members Jan. It'll.
The new organ for the Congrega-
tiOnal church, at Manchester, has ar
rived.
The demand for seats in the Con-
gregatiOnal church at St. Albans, Vt,
under the preaching of Prof Weber, of
MiddlebUry College, is greater than the
supply affords.
EPISCOPAL.
-Thirty-two pieces of instrumental
music were used in the orchestra Of
Trinity Church, New York, last Christ
mas.
The recent festival of the ladies Of
/ Trinity Church, Whitehall, Melted some
5000
The late donation to the rector at
Fort Edward, \. Y, amounted to SEINE
1920.
The Rev. DR.. Dix, rector of Trinity
Church, New York, preached a sermon
on Sunday, the 21st inst, on Home,
Marriage and Divorce" taking strong
ground against the heathenish practice
of modern divorce.
In a frontier county in Minnesota, a
woman living thirty miles from 8
church, has a Sunday School of 25 chill. q
dren in a log house. The same woman
attended the funeral of an almost starry
ed man, eight miles distant, and read
the burial service, driving through the
dense forest with an team, to his abode.
Fifteen persons were lately con-
firmed in Trinity Church, Claremont, Y.
II. \ beautiful mural tablet TO the
memory of Bishop Chase has been erect
ed in that church.
The New York midnight mission
had a Christmas Tree. Bishop Potter
has lately confirmed FIVE of the girls
The tunes played by the chimes Of
Trinity Church, New York, al midnight
on the last day of the year, were, "The
Angelic Host" PASTORAL Psalms"
GLORIOUS Things of Thee are Spoken"
Angels from the Realms of Glory"
Happy New Year to Thee, "The Blue
Bells Of Scotland" Evening Bells"
Yankee Doodle" and Home, Sweet
Home" and were heard by many de-
lighted people.
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
Rev. D. Fisk has resigned the Pres
idenCy of the ST. Lawrence University,
and accepted q call to 60 to Grand
Rapids, Mich, as pastor Of the Univer-
salist church there. He is to receive a
salary Of $4,000, and an advance Of
$500 more the second year.
The Uuiger8qEst SAYS: We have
very encouraging reports from our Acad-
envy located at South Woodstock, Vt.
The winter term is larger than for sew
oTal years past. The present corps Of
teachers seem TO be giving entire salts
faction.
METHODIST.
John II. Harper, Oldest son Of John
Harper, Of the firm Of Harper Brothers,
has built and furnished, entirely at his
own expense, a Methodist church at
Port Washington, L. l. The HarpeTs
are strong Methodists.
The Episcopate in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, is discussed with
much ability in the church periodicals.
Among the important changes advocated
are that the Bishops should be support
ed by the church directly and not By
the Book concern that the number Of
Bishops should be largely increased,
some say to twenty or twenty-five and
that the number Of Presiding Elders
should be reduced The cost of the
present number Of presiding elders, IS,
al least. 1920, 900. OF this amount,
$40, 600, might be saved. which is SUI
icient TO support thirty Bishops.
AT the session of the 8IississippiAn
uual Conference Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. held I'm Jackson, Miss,
December 18th, Bishop james ordained
I'm one class fifty-two deacOns. At the
same service, says the New York AdU0-
rate. he ordained seventeen elders, ma
king total of sixty-nine preachers or
daincd ut one time. With single eX-
ceptiOn, this is the largest nGmber OF
preachers ever ordained at a single con
ference session in the history Of Metho-
dism. Most Of the candidates were men
OF Initiate aye. t,tft } AtlA7 a. IL ~
op James ordained a class Of fifty-six
dcacons. at the session of the Ohio Con
ference, at Chillicothe, Ohio.
Praying bands are getting to be
very common in the Methodist churches
of Massachusetts, and the Praying Band
Union. organized al Waltham a year
AGO. has had a quarterly meeting al
LYNN. Twenty-one bands were report
ed. representing a membership of nearly
three hundred and fifty. II was stated
that about one hundred and thirty pub
lie meetings had been held by the differ
emit bands composing the Union. During
the past quarter, nearly one thousand
nersnns had manifested an interest in