Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-24
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Religious Intelligence.
BAPTIST
Fifteen thousand dollars is the sum
subscribed by }. Estey K Co. to the en-
dowment fund of the Vermont Baptist
Academy, to be located at SaXton's
River.
Coal furnaces are being put into the
Baptist church cdiice at Bennington.
The pastor of the Baptist church at
Bellows Falls is absent ON his ANIMAL
vacation.
Rev. Foster Henry. of North Ben
nington, preached the sermon before the
New Hampshire Baptist Missionary So
ciety, at Nashua, on Wednesday last. 1t
is said to have been an able discourse
upon the theme, God Nagnitied and
Exalted, and was listened to with
marked attention.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The Congregational church at Lyn-
donviIlc, will be dedicated on Thursday,
the 24th inst. Sermon by Rev. L. O.
Brastow. History OF the enterprise by
tlt IidSiOI
There are POI CQDgrcga church.
cs in Vermont, and two hundred
and eighteen ministers. The amount
paid for preachers salaries, reported by
one hundred and thirty-two churches, is
one hundred and tWenty-siX thousand
one hundred and eighty dollars, an
average Of nine hundred and sixty dol
lars. The membership Of the churches
is 1884, Of whom 1851 were added
last year, G18 by profession. The beney-
client contributions reported 10y 149
churches amount to SOP, 446.
EPISCOPAL,
F. W. FarnAam Of Troy, is building
a parish school house, to cost $50 900, be-
ssdes the new Church Of the Ascension
on Ida Till.
Bishop Lee. and several clergy Of
Iowa, lately held an open air service In
the grove at Yankee.
Two sisters have just left the Bish-
op Potter Memorial House, Philadcl-
phia, to minister to the Ponka Indians,
in Dakota.
TO the rector at Smiths Falls, On
tario, Canada, his people have given a
handsome horse and harness.
The recent fire in Canterbury Cathr-
dral the finest church cditice IN England,
DESTROYED about One-fOurth Of that I'M
mense structure.
Tie Ladies' Industrial Society Of St.
Johns Church. Delhi, N. Y, has been
in operation 81 years, and done much
good during that time.
"A solid silver paten and a gold plat
oil oI,o1ioo II, y1,pD1OrU of MrG Williams
has been given at ST. Marks Church, !
Newark, \. y.
Bishop Bisse,l has lately visited Grand |
Isle, in Lake Champiain, ST. James at
Woodstock, Zion Church at Manchester, |
and st. James Church at Arlington. At |
Grand Isle lac confirmed six persons, pre- |
scented by Rev. DR.. Fay; at Woodstock,
five persons, and five at Arlington
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
-Rev. George s. Guernsey will preach |.
at Cavendish on Sunday, Oct. 9th
Rev. F. Z. Healey engages with the !
church in Derby Line the coming year.
The st. Lawrence University starts /
off with good promise for the tall
term.
Hon. Israel Washburn, jr., with his |
DEOIlltIS anu perhaps OCAICA y liza y N'~CA /
ded to moderniZe and improve the old |
Universalist church located near the old |
Washburn homestead in LiVermOre "a |
slightly and delightful spO0, which was |
erected by the fathers of Universalism
in that town in the year 1928,
The Universalist societyin Whining
ton have Just furnished their church |
with very beautiful chandeliers and
lamps. Their pastor, Rev Mr. DaVen-
port, designs to give course OF lectures
commencing next Sabbath evening,
when his subject will be ''Ihe power
that knowledge confers upon its possess
Or"
METHODIST.
The Springfield District Preachers
Association viii meet at BrattlebOfo
next week. Preaching Tuesday evening
by Rev. D. Z. Miller of Windsor, and
Wednesday evening by Rev. j. ii. Gay
lord of Wilmington. During the days
of Wednesday and Thursday essays will
be presented and discussions held upon
various subjects of Christian doctrine
and work. At 10 a. m, Thursday, an
address will be given by Rev. Mr.. Wheel
err, missionary to China, in the inte-
rest of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society.
Why should an autograph hunter nat
urally call on Messrs. Edward Eggles-
ton, Z. E. Hale, Emerson Etheridge, or
(were they living Edward Everett and
Col E. Il. Ellsworth for autographs,
with reasonable hope of success ? Be
cause they all write their names with
great Els great ease.
A little girl four years old had learned
the verse, Ask, and it shall be given
you; seek, and We shall find; knock,
and 1t shall be opened unto you. When
a few days afterward she was asked to
l.. liz 1rIih