Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-03-06
RELIGIOUS INrEL,.,GrxCE.

which returns Il membership of 1 ,366. The
second largest church i said to be the First
African, in Richmond. Va, and the third
Is, euriously enough, in India. 1t would
seem that seven years ago last September
there were but two native Christians in the
city of Ongole, Indn; to-day the church
numbers > 2,3j7 members Rev Lemue
Powers was the first Baptist minister or
dainei in Vermont. At the meeting of
the SALISBURY Association in Pownal June
18th, l79i, Elder Powers preached the intro
ductory sermon, was appointed messenger
to the Warren Association, the mother of
/ New England associations. lie was chosen
Moderator Of the Association in 1897, po-
sition Of honor and trust in that large body
of Is churches with , 500 members The
members Of the Tabernacle Church. New
York. we're aStoni>hed on the evening of
Feb 4O;h, by the resignation of their pas
tor, Rev. Wayland Hoyt. Mr.. Hoyt opened
the services with hymn, after which he
read paper TO the elect that he had been
/ called from a wealthy congregation to take
charge of this church with the understand
in. that the building would be sold, and
another one pGt up IN more favorable To-
caiity. 3lr. Ioyt, after reading bis state
meat. abruptly walked out without dismis-
sing his ongregatiou.-I;evJ J. y John
son ha- accepted the unanimous call from
the church at St. Alhan~ 10 become their
pastor. lie VIII commence hiS lab0rs about
the middle OF May. lie i spoken of as
young man of very fine talent-Elder
Knapp, the baptist revivai~t, l. i'll with
pulmonary consumption at his home in
Rockford, lll.--Rev. y Cyr. of Rutland,
is giving series Of lectures in the French
language in Boston on French Pulpit Elo-
quencc in the Nineteenth Century"
CONGREGATIONAL.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lecturei at
New Haven On the Bible, last week His
method he said, made his positions appear
unOrthodox, but yet, in large sense, he
felt himself u be as sound a., nay sounder
than most men on the fundamental
doctrines Of Christianity the doctrines,
for example, of triune God /; of an ever
blessed God-Man Of that God-Man's life
work which somehow made an atonement;
Of an indwelling spirit sent forth of God; ;
ola regeneration effected BY that spirit of
Il new, two-world life. The Bible was full
of the germs of philosophy. and ethics. and
sociology, lust as d fleece was full of the
possibilities of broadeloth, but it was not
philosophy, nor ethics, nor sociology, buta
book for even little children. The Bible
was an exbaustiess stOrehouse of the
Simplcst-expressed but aptest truths. The
book of Love sudereth long, "hopeth all
things, "endureth all things could no
more grow old than forests or the blue sky (;
he who had a sympathetic and perfect
knowledge OF it was grandly educated.
though he knew no other book.-The
Congregauonalists of the Far West have
decided to establish their central university
at Colorado Springs, Col.
EPISCOPAL
\ new church Is to be built at Potsdam
Junction the coming summer.-Bishop
Neely. of Maine, has accepted an invitation
70 visit the Bishop of Litchfeld, England,
and will 20 over after Lent-Bishop
Pinkney, of Maryland, preached a sermon
at Washington, Feb 221. before a large
audience pertinent to the differences pre-
vailing in the Episcopal Church and the
new movement of Bishop Cummins. He
maintained that all tendencies to change
the established forms were subversive Of
Christian independence. and as the destruc-
tive tendency of the age was change he
cautioned his hearers against it. The
prayer book had the stamp of antiquity
Ii was the echo OF the Bible. and was safe
rule to follow.-Rev. Edward d. Neill,
president of the Macalli~ter College in
Minneapolis, Mimi. and Il Presbyterian
minister. has applied to his Presbytery to
be transferred 10 the new Reformed EpiscO-
pal Church.
METHODIST.
'TLa ,.v;,.,T -,
which has been going on for about three
weeks past, continues with unahated vIgOr.
Services are held every evening and tour
afternoons each week. and the church l.
almost always iull.-Cen. John TYLER sun
OF the late President Tyler. was licensed To
preach at the session of the quarterly con-
ference Of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
in Tallahassee. Fla The Methodist Epi--
cOpal Church. within about year has sent
thirty new missionaries to the loreign field,
commenced three new missions Oi Japan,
Mexico and Italy. and re-entered Bulgaria
Kew Or. Carlton. late senior book
asen, Of the Methodist book concern in
New YORK. mas been elected city treas
urer for the city of Elizabeth, n. J.
There j. a growing interest in the religious
services held by Rev o. Gibson in his mis-
sion work among the Chinese IN California
On Sunday, January 2jth. at the Methodist
mission building in san Francisco, he bap-
tiZcd four Chinese-twO men and two wO-
men. On the occasion fifteen natives par
took of the Lord supper Revival meet
ingS are being held at Enosburgh Falls
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
Father Blylan. Of Rutland, is doing
vigorous and noble work among his con-
SregatiOn. Last Sunday he preached
powerful sermon in favor of temperance,
and on all occasions. by voice and labor, he
assists the good work. On Wednesday
last, he attended the fnneral OF n victim Of
rum, and on that occasion improved the
opportunity Of doing good. All who at
tended the funeral he pressed to abstain
from the use OF intoxicating liquors, and
succeeded in getting large number of those
in the habit of drinking, 10 sign the total
abstinence pledge for three yearS.--Sad-
lers" Z" Catholic Directory for 1874, shows
that the United States i divided into seven
Catholic pruvnces-namely. Baltimore. Gin
einnati, New Orleans. New York, Oregon,
ST. Louis and San Francisco. These pro
yinees contain seven arehbishopS, hity-six
bishops. 4 sig priests. 1, ,3S7 churches, I5i
churches in course oferection, ,fi5 chapel-
and stations, and $50 parochisl schOols.
An important mission il in progress
among the Catholics at BrattleborO.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Messrs Moody and Sankey have had
great success IN revival meetings near Edih-
bnrgh Mr. Slnkey takes a harmonium
with him, which 50 excited an old Puritan
dame that she rushed out of the church ex
claiming, "Popery Popery let me cot.
let me DOT What would John Knox think
of this "a boy of fourteen is leader of
a great religious revival in Dekalb county,
Illinois. lie is a fluent exhorter, and his
efforts are very successful in winning con-
verts.-A Brooklyn Sunday School super
intendcnt believes that many young per-
sons who are not members of the church
make excellent teachers and receive great
personal beuetit thereby. In fact he would
PREFER young, active, wide-awake heathen
to a dry dull Christian that could not
teach. There is a powerful religious
awakening in the Kennebec Valley, Maine,
scores and hundreds having professed con-
version. All the churches participate, and
are working together riharmoniously, unsel-
fishly and lor II common cause. There is
almost an entire absence of anything like
excitement" that is 80 often much dread
ed ,batmen and women are acting upon their
Judgment and deep convictions The