Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-11-24

. ls-Twtniy third Sunday after Trinity.
<e-rEents-'orTth SUNDAY a,tsr Trinity.
si.-S.. Andrew, the Apostle.
VI make few additions TO the long iisi
( OF meetings announced last week. Ia Ne
/ chanIcs vile meetings are in progress from
which good results are confidently expect
ed. Even # few so-csled conversions are
made the meetings can not fail of exercising
a beneficial influence Miss f. E. Towns
ley Is holding series Ct religious meetings
a. DANNY BJro There is very enc0ur-
aging religious interest at Burr and Barton
Seminary. al Manchester.--At recent
commuuluns eight persons were received
INTO the Congregational church at Manehe,
ter: and twenty-One into that at Pawlet.
Mics Sarah +. Smiley. the well-kn0wn
Quaker preacher" Is holding meetings at
Rutland The recent meetings at Sharon
have resulted in some sixty conversions -
The churches at Rict ford have. during the
past season, recelve cd large additions. They
nave labored in perfect harmony, ard have
done much good.
In the way of church building, etc g,
here is little to add TO last weeks report
TIE Baptist church at Nergennes IS being
pushed rapidly forward The Congrega-
rIonal church at New Haven is nearly ready
for occupation. - The Congregational
church in Lunenburgh have repaired tho
damages done to their house of worship, by
stroke OF lightning last Summer.
In ministerial personals We note the fol-
lowing Rev j Ii. Babbitt, of Waitsfeld.
has received a unanimous call from the
church in Swanton.--The Rev. Mr.. Chal-
mers, f b diord, Maine, has taken charge
of the Congregational Church at Fairhaven.
and the Rev G. IL. Morse, of that at Clsr-
endon Key. Amos holbrook, Of Har-
risyille. n. H., has been invited by the
in Saxtons River TO minister to
them --Rey. A. A. Baker, Of Eldora,
Iowa, formerly the paster of the church in
Cornwall, Is expected to preach for the
church at East tlsrdwick, during the re
Dainder Of the Fall ard " inter
The Chronicle has been collecting some |
IN respect 10 the size Of the aver |
sge audiences IN the churches where sec |
nd preaching service Is held, and it comes /
o the conclusion that in no church from /
which it has beard Is the audience in the |
vening equal TO forty per cent. OF the
nOrping audience. In seven churches the
yersge audiences in the first services are
twenty-five hundred and fifty, and in the
ecoud service, five hundred. The Chronicle
hen suggests that II might be desirable to
~ the experiment quite generally, OF one
ervlce on Sunday aid alter an appropriate
lterval the Sunday school. with Bible
lass conducted by the pastor. We agrte
5th our contemporary in thinking that
lat ouRht TO be enough, in ordinary cases,
Y pastor and people.
TIE Morning Star, the organ Of the Free
'sptist Church. says of the growth of that
sin 1856, the Free Baptist
numbered As, 97s. In 1876,
plumbers membership of 74,65l. These
cures indicate an increase in twenty years
5 81, or little more than fifty per cent.
here has been an increase in the ministry
lis, in the churches of IS, and in the
embership OF z, 523. In this last partieu-
r the gain has been about double the av-
age of the last twenty years. OF it, SO
. been in New England. The remainder
s been west Of New England. and in part |.
aeesssions Of other bodies. IN one Nav '
'Gispd ssats alone, vsrnens, has there
"a . dininrticn. !