The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-30

vision of opinion as to the expediency of the
councils. In favor of them are urged /.
| The advantage of cooperation in mission
and other enterprises; and 2 The organic
unity and esprit de corps assured by fire.
quent meetings. Against them are urged
1. The confusion Of having the large mis-
sonary and other organizations influenced
by body liable to conflicting views; 2.
The Jealousy of the individual churches
against an undue exercise of authority; 9.
The fact that the denomination is not a sect
but principle. AS sect, it has nothing
distinctive to stand on, not even immersion
and it is urged that the less individuality
sect has the lower is its statue as sect, to-
ward which frequent and stated councils
would tend to bring gationalism.
On the other hand, as a prnciple-the prin-
ciple of the intensest simplicity and free
DON'T would have, in the absence of or
| ganic machinery, an added influence and
| power. The drift of feeling is, however,
toward the compromise involved in the con
stitution of the councils, which robs them
ofauthority, and yet secures the advantage
of organic form.
PROGRAMME OF THB SESSION.
The members of the local committee in
New Haven are actively making arrange
ments fer Thorough entertainment of dele
gates. No especially striking issue is like.
ly to be brought before the council, except
that of the advisability of consolidating un-
der one control the various benevolent So
cieties of the denomination. The Rev.
Richard S. Storrs, ID. d., of Brooklyn,
will preach the opening sermon on the even.
ing of the first days session of the council,
and the leading papers of the meeting will
be as follows:
Occasions of Hope for an Immediate Gen
eral Effusion of the Holy Spirit By the
Rev. Zachary Eddy, D. D., of Michigan.
The Fellowship of the Churches. BY the
Rev. l.. +. Dwinell, ID. d., ofCalifornia.
Our Foreign Missionary Churches-Their
and Relations to the Churches at Home
By the Rev. N. G. Clerk, ID. d., of Massa-
chusetts.
Christian Comfy between Denominations
on the Home Field. BY the Rev. ID. b.
Coe, ID. d., of New York city.
Mutual Aspects of our Different Benevo-
lent Agencies. BY the Rev. G. l.. Goodel
of Missouri.
The Internal Spiritual Condition of our
Colleges. BY President A. ID. Smith, ID.
D., of New Hampshire.
Sabbath Schools, City Missions, and
Similar Agencies. BY the Hon. Henry p.
Haven of Connecticut.
The Conditions of Pulpit Effectiveness
among the Multitude. BY the Rev. w. II.
ii. Murray of Massachusetts.
Development of Latent Power in Church.
es and individual 8. By the Rev. A. L.
Beard of New York.
The Character Essential to the Religion
which will take Strong Hold of the Ameri-
can People. BY President j. II. Farchld,
ID. D., of Ohio.
Among the delegates chosen to the coun-
Gil are the following wel,-known names:
The Hon. Nelson Dingley OF Maine, the
Rev. DR.. VIM. T. Savage of New Hamp-
shire, the Rev DR.. Aldace Walker of Yer
mont, the Rev. Drs. j. NJ Manning and
a. Ii. Quint, and the Hon. VIM. b. Wash
burn and John b. Cough of Massachusetts,
the Rev. Drs Eldridge and Burton of Con-
necticut; the Rev. Drs. Taylor, Storrs,
Holbrook and Corwin, and Judge VIM b.
Edwards of New York the Rev. DR.. N. L.
Smith of New Jersey the Rev. DR.. Dwnell
of California, and the Rev. Norman Mac
Cleod of Washington Territory.
STATISTICS OF THE DENOMINATION.
The following table of statistics of the
Congregatonalists in the United States
and North America, is from The Congre-
gational Quarterly for January, 1875