Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-08-22
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

BAPTIST.
Rev. N. Cyrof Rutland, is speaking IN
North Adams to the French population on
the Bible, Romanism and the Republic."-
The Vermont and SALISBURY Association
Will hold its nineteenth anniversary with
the church in Poultney, August 9th. Rev.
Dwight Spencer of Fairhaven, is the APP
pointed preacher, and Rev. r. NJ: Luther
of Bennington, the alternate.-The plans
for.the new Shawmut AvenueBaptist Church
at Boston, to be built in order to prevent
DR.. Lorimer from accepting the call to
fremont Temple, are completed. 1t will
stand at the corner of Columbus avenue,
Chester park and Wellington street, and
will be $50 by ll3 feet. The auditorium
viii be novelty in New England church
architecture, being in the form OF SEMI
circle, with the floor inclined five feet IN
As. the pews in perfect circles, with Is
radiating aisles, thus concentrating the
sight on one point. The seating capacity
will be 1900. The cost of the land is
sc, 900. and that of the building will
reach SlO0,O more. 1t is to be done in
six months.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The society in Castleton have instituted a
series of weekly church sociables, to raise
money for repairing their church,
The Congregational churches of Vermont,
with over eighteen thousand members and
more ;han two hundred trained ministers,
made, last year, net lOsssof ninety-nlne
COMMITMENTS. The Vermont Chronicle asks,
what are We TO conclude in view of these
facts? What would be said ofan army of eigh
teen thousand workers for any worthy object
that did not so much as hold its own num-
bers. but made net loss of one hundred?
Would it be regarded as thoroughly efficient
and faithful At this rate what will be-
come of the Vermont churches and what OF
| the great fields Of Onr country and OF the
world ? Sometimes believers speak of the
| nearness of the final triumphs Of the Gospel
the long-expected millenium-how near
can that event be. if Vermont churches 90
on this way?' The WafchmGR and
| Reflector comes to the rescue with
well considered words of generous
consolation. 1t says: ''ln the first place,
emigration Is steadily draining away the
| best blood of Vermont. Probably the ma
| tive population has diminished more than
| have Congregational COMMITMENTS. In
the second place, this very fact weakens the
| hands of the ministry weakens strong
| churches and makes weak ones weaker
takes away the more enterprlsing element,
/ and dispiri:s ali round Much depends ON
| how We put things. Suppose, in this case,
we say that the Vermont churches have all
| but held their own, notwithstanding their
| steady depletion by death and emigration
| while at the same time, a large portion OF
| those who 20 West become the seed OiwhOle
churches and of Puritan institutions gener-
ally What i true Of our Congregational
| brethren is true in the main Of Baptists.
/ Wherefore lift up the hands which hang
! down. --Richard ;. Storrs, d. D., the
venerable pastor of the First Church of
/ Braintree. Mass. died on Monday at the ad-
| vauced age of eighty years His mlnlste-
rial career has been exceptionally remark
| able. BE having entered the ministry when
young man and continued as pastor Of one
/ church until the day Of his death, his pas
| t1rate lasting sixty-two years. lie belonged
/ t. long line of ministers, his father hay
/ inE borne the same name. He was born in
/ ~ graduated at Williams College in
I 1907. and on July 5, 1911, at the age of
| twenty-four years. was installed a pastor
/ ef the church in Braintree. For five years
I he was Secretary of the Home Missionary
/ Society, but his pastoral relations continued
meanwhile. Of late wears his health has
/ been delicate, and though his pulpit has
1 often been supplied. colleague has never
| been installed. lie was editor of the Boston
Recorder and assistant editor Of the C0Hgre-
Ca'iouasst. and contributed 10 other publ
cations. lie was a man of social nature,
kindly ~ympathies, vigorous thinker, and
| highly esteemed, not only by the people
with S. ON he labored 50 long, but by his
brethren in the ministry throughout New