Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-06-13
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

BAPTIST
The Waichmqu and Reflector pathetically
laments the decline of the Anniversaries. as
follows These, as whole. have shown
our increased departure this year from the
old time type,-nO crowd in the citV. no
| rush to the meetings, no star speakers. no
| enthusiasm anywhere REV. L. W.
Kemp has been excluded bv the West
| RoylstOn. Mas. church for immoral con-
duet. This exclusion. according u the
understanding of Baptists, Is a deposition
from the ministry. Mr.. X, when sum
mo9ed To appear before the church of which
he had been pastor, to answer criminal
charges, left the place, thus implicitly con-
Tossing his gailt.-Bev George Carpen-
ter, Of Rowe, Mass, has taken charge Of the
church at Grot0n, Nt-The Baptist
Church Of North Sunderland. Mass, has
voted to discontinue the use Of fermented
| winCs NJ the communion service. The Rev.
| y. d. Donovan. the pastor has accepted
| call 10 the church in BrO0kline. Nt-The
BaptiSts Of Virginia celebrated the semi
| centennial anniversary Of the organization,
at Richmond. Goth ult
coNGREGATIovAL.
Rev. George l.. Walker. d. D.. was dis
missed from the pa-torate Of the First
| Church in New Haven. Ct. BY advice ola
Council which met May 10. He comes TO
| Vermont for his native air-Nlr. Charles
Lawrence, son Of Prof. f. Lawrence, d. D.,
| of Marblehead, Mas. accepts his call to
Champlain. y. Y.-The Congregational
| Publishing Society received in cash. last
year, SIZE, 229 81, and had a cash balance
ON hand. Nav Ist. of S6.g7j.46 The
society received for needy schools, S22,-
223 -, and gave away SI2, $50 s5.-The
American Educational Society received, last
year, S33, 1888 and bad balance Of 81
iOl II on hand they expended S3l ,6S6.59,
leaving a balance Of S6,O9j.9l. Three
hundred and sixty-fiye young men have been
assisted in thiTty-siX colleges and theOlogi-
cal -chcols.--rhe church at Littleton. \.
H., received twelve members at the May
communion these We're converts in the late
revival.-1he church in Newmarket, y.
H.. held a reunion Of the former pastors
and members, May Goth, the forty-htth an
niverSary of the settlement of the first pas
tor, Rev David Sanford Of Midway, Mass
EPISCOPAL.
Tie Diocesan Convention of Central New
York meets at Elmira, June IO.--St.
Peters Church. Brooklyn, y. Y. Of which
the Rev. j. \. Paddock. BiShop-elect Of
| Massachusetts. Is rector. celebrated its
twenty-ifth anniversary on the 18th ult.
bishop Whipple. OF Minnesota, Is max
ing visitation Of his extensive and frost
bitten dioce~e.-N hit sunday was the
three hundred and twenty-tourth anniver-
sary of the Book of Common Payer
| The ConvoCation of Canterbury (which was
recently prorogued % July u had a re-
markahle debate on the subject of auricular
confession, in the course Of which 1t was
agreed that under the present rubrics there
| Is no way TO prevent any clergy, parochial
or other, from setting themselves up as reg
ular conies>ors. The Upper House has ap-
pointed a committee 10 consider and report
on the subject. In the debate. the general
.eelingwas expressed by the Bishops of Lich
field and Oxford that voluntary confession,
as directed by the Prayer Book, is in many
| cases a great benefit, while they reprobatei
the language often used about " sacrdH,e1-
| tai confession The question before the
committee also includes the expediency Of
/ hcfHSiHg proper persons as contes~ors.
METHODIST
The Ladies Missionary Society Of Lunen-
/ burgh. auxiliary TO the VI. Z. Branch Of
/ the WOmau'~ Foreign Missionary Society
/ Of the NJ. +. Church. held a quarterly
meeting May 18th, ls73.-The Meth0dists
| have in the United States 2l ,33- churches
| In the decade becade between 1850 and 1860.
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| rapidly than in the next ten wears The
Methodists gained fifty per cent in the
/ former time, and only seven PEI cent in
4 the latter.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
Rt Rev Bishop Loughlin. Of the di-
oce~e of Brooklyn. will preach the sermon
/ on the occasion ot the dedication Of ST
/ Peters Church, Rutland, on the 29th of
ID l..
avenue and Filty-trSt and Fifty--econd
/ streets. y. Y. and extending back to Madi-
/ son avenue. will be the finest church struc-
turc not alone IN New York, but in the
western world. Begun lin ISIS by Arch
/ bishop Hughes, the grand building, oc-
/ cupying an entire city block. Is now about
/ halt finished. Enormous granite blocks
/ constitute its foundations. On these rise
/ the graceful yet grand Supcr>tructure Of the
/ cathedral. which l. constructed all Of fine
marble. With its rich decorations. its rose
windows. its lines of foliated tracery, its
| clustering Gothic pinnacle, it, wealth Of
ornament. and, most Of all, It's lofty twin
/ spires, piercing the sky at "a height above
| everything else in New York. it closely re-
sembles the w0rld-tam0us cathedral at Co
l0gne. 1t will be the largest. the coStliest
and the most beautiful church in the United
l
The towers at the corners viii be 325 feet
/ high The church itself, built in pure
white marble, the most beautiful Of all
material for such a structure, will present
most graceful and harmonious map
ping of outlines. and a world of columns,
capitals, and ornamental traeery. Across
the front gable. over the entrance, there
will extend a row of inches with statues Of
saints and martyrs. Toward the construc-
ton of this grandest and most beautiful of
American church eiihces all the Catholic
| churches in New York contribute Ii will
/ probably be finished four years hence, or in
| Il years of actual working time. allowing
for the suspension during the greater part
of the war Similar churches in Europe
were hundreds Of years in building.
WlsCELLASEoUs.
An appeal is made to the American pub
lie for subscriptions for the support of the
family of the late DR.. j. II Merle D'Au-
bigne, the famous scholar and theolOgian.
Ii seems that the circulation of his books in
Europe was quite limited, and his widow is
left with an income insufficient for the edu-
cation of her four chidren.-The New
York State Sunday School Convention, held
at BinghamtOn, attracts very large
audiences and much attention.-The sun
day Schools of Brooklyn, y. Y. held their
annual parade Thursday. There were
about II 600 children in line
\ Sow AND kITTENs.-S L. Nichols has
a sow and cat, which have a strange at
tachment for each other. Two years ago
when the SOW was bringing up litter Of
pigs, little kitten strayed into the pen.
took its place in the litter, and was assigned