Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-03-21
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
BAPTIST

the last year over oU,UUO DaptiSihs "ere IT,
ported.
A bill is before the New York Legislature
affecting the Baptist churches, and propos-
ing to make the church, and not the
" church and society,"" the corporation.
This would disfranchise some of the most
generous helpers of the church, and bring
questions of property into church meetings
where the votes of children would count as
much as those of full grown men. The En-
aminer and Chronicle questions whether 1t
is either wise or needful to make this sweep
ing change.
Rev. p. S Burbank of Danville, has ac-
cepted a call to the church at South Parson-
| field, Me.
Rev. L. L. Wood, formerly pastor Of the
church in Ogdensburg, but for the last
three years of the Second church, at Law
renee, Mass, has accepted a call to the
Harvard street church, Boston, at an an
nual salary of $1,000, and additions made
by the Society, which will bring it up to
1000.
There is discussion in division of the
Baptist church, known as the Mennonites,
in eastern Ohio. The party Of the one
hand maintain that the true and only right
eous imethod of fastening garments upon
the person Is by means Of buttons, while
those of the other hand look upon this doc
trine as arrant heresy, asserting that they
only can be saved who secure their robes
with hooks and eyes.
The Baptist ministers of Boston are
gratuitousiy worried by Rev. Mr.. Murray 5
"attack or the New England clergy Kew.
J. ID. Fulton answered him, on recent
Sunday 4 proposition to have HIM repeat
his sermon before the Baptist ministers,
conference was objected to on the ground
that it would advertise Mr. Murray,
and that it was ." best to cease to preach
against the devil" The motion was with
drawn, but the sermon i to be preached
" informally"
CONGREGATIONAL.
The funeral services of the late Rev. DR..
Barstow were held at keene on the 9th inst.
and the funeral sermon was preached by
Prof Parker of Dartmouth College. This
distinguished divine had for ffty-fve years
discharged the duties Of pastor Of the First
Congregational church Of Keene. lie was
ordained in 1915. Among the pail
bearers of the deceased were the Unitarian
clergyman Of keene. Rev. William o..
White, Hon. Thomas VI. Edwards and Gen.
James Wilson.
lAlt NbtE f.AtAtl4Al 0thNANAAA@ AfA A'a-
show ,623 churches. 10 vacant, and ,. POI
ministers, $40 of whom are not at work.
The aggregate church membership i BIS
9lj, net gain OF q, SG2; net gain Of churches
81 10 ministers have been ordained, | |
have died, ll9 been installed, l2l dismissed.
Miss Smiley has been preaching in Boston
to delighted and crowded audiences.
Rev. j. II. Farnsworth has removed from
Springfield, Vt, to Iowa.
Rev ). p. Cook has not resigned the Con-
gregetional pastorate at Windsor.
The First Congregational church at Jack
son, Mich, has booked a live Beecher, Rev
F. W, of Kankakee, H., son Of Edward.
Rev. W. II. H. Murray of Adirondack 10
toriety, is said to be too liberal in his re-
hgious views to suit his Pensioners.
EPIsCOPALIAN.
4 large and influential meeting. at
tended by many noblemen, members of
Parliament and prominent clergymen, was
recently held in ST. james Hall, London, at
which resolutions were adopted denouncing
any attempt at the alteration or mutilatiOn
of the Athanasian Greed.
Grace church. on Broadway, New York.
Is TO rival Trinity with a 5000 chime of
bells. Some trouble, however, Is antici-
pated in settling who shall preside at the
bell ropes. Hitherto, Brown. the sexton.
has been the autOcrat of Grace church
Grace church has existed thus far without
any bell, and the innovations are perplexing
to an aristocratic sexton.
The latest fashionable folly is the High
Church Juror, which has broken out among
the arist0cratic danes Of New York. who
orr -s,Tvfr +Lorst-a1,-a- Gt,- L.,
pattern, loading their persons with beads
and immense crosses, and embroidering
altar cloths for the church.
Rev. S. Treadwcl Walden. of Norwich.
Conn, accepts the rectorate Of ST. Paul's, at
Boston.
The Rev H. W. Spaulding, the past five
or six years rector of Grace church. at Madi-
son, Wis, has accepted a call to St.
Peters church, at Pittsburgh, with salary
of $4,000 and parsonage.
The Rev. c. Molyneux, long known as
popular evangelical clergyman at Bromp-
ton. London, has seeded from the church
of England, and taken to free preaching at
st. James Hall.
The church of the Holy Communion, in
New York city, established some time ago
an institution at 1874 Sixth avenue, as a
g Shelter for respectable girls" The work
already accomplished shows the pressing
necessity which it has met, for during the |
past two years it has received and provided |
with situations over 500 homeless bat re- |
spectacle women.
New York gentleman writes to the Trib- |
lfne to ask what he shall do with his daugh- |
ter, who is member of the Episcopal |
church, and last year kept Lent so strictly
Is to endanger her health.
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
The Examiner and Chronicle, speaking of |
Rev. o. B. Frothingham's slender connec-
ion with the Unitarians. says that he
hangs on to the sect by his eye-lidS'
Tufts College, which is under the con-
rol of the Universalist denomination, has
lttained good degree Of prosperity in the
ew years in which it has been established.
Hon. Israel Washbarn, Jr, of Maine. is
resident Of the Board of Trustees, and
Rev. DR.. y. \. Miner is President of the
}oard of Instruction and Government.
here are several students in attendance
rom Vermont.
Rev. W. II. Cndworth, for twenty-one
ears pastor of the Unitarian church at East
Ioston, has resigned to accept the pastorate
f the Third Unitarian church. at Chicago.
t $1,000.
There are four Unitarian and three Uni
ersalist churches in Chicago
The Christian Register wants to know
there Mr.. Murray belongs, if not in the
Unitarian ranks.
Rev. Lester Warren has entered upon his
uties as pastor of the Uniyersalist church
Barre, preaching his first sermon last
unday.
METHODIST.
Rev. J. o. Peck of Springfield. has been
lvited to the Centenary Methodist Church
l Chicago and will go if the bishops con-
mt.
The last number of the Christian Adrocate
,ports revivals in some score of Methodist i
iurches which aggregate over twelve hun ,
red and fifty conversions. !
Rev. DR.. Newman and Bishop Harris I
editate trip round the world. /.
Mr.. Kodama, native japanese, who |
udied law in Washington, has been elected o
deacons orders by the Baltimore Metho- '
st Conference, and admitted to full con- a
ection. Hewill soon return to Japan. =
A great revival in the Methodist Episco- y
Il church at Marshall, Mich, Is in pro- I,
Tess. Thus far about 27O aceessions to o
10 membership of the church have been i
ade, and it is the intention to hold meet !,
gs until every sinner in Marshall is con- 5
rted. Y
The Methodist society of Sheffield. are y
'out to put into their church $500 organ. $
Bishop Clinton (coloredl is the chief .
shop Of the African Methodist Episcopal 81
difference of the United States, in which /
injection there are six bishops. The !
shop was educated in Pittsburgh, Pa, y
ID attained his present rank twelve years 4
to the affairs of the different colored &
urches. x