Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-24
RELIGIOUS.

The High-street Baptist church at
Lynn, Mass, refuses to accept Rev. A.
p. Tracey's resignation.
The United Methodist free churches
have had decrease of 265 full members
and an increase of 1853 on trial, and
have in all 72.O44 full members and 7,433
on trial.
j. B. Richardson. Dartmouth gradu-
ate and for three years DR.. j. s. Spaul-
ding's assistant at Barre academy, VT, ac-
cepts a call to the First Congregational
church Mt Hiawatha, Kan.
Joseph Cook sailed from New York
for Europe recently. The extent of his
trip is not determined, but, should cir
cumstances favor, he expects to make
the tour of the world, and may be absent
two years.
Shorter hours OF employment, half
holiday on Saturday, or some similar ar
rangement, would afford an opportunity
to these multitudes for pleasure excur-
sions, and would take away the excuse
for Sabbath dissertation. -Wus. Christian
Weekly.
The installation of Rev George A.
jackson rs pastor Of the Congregational
Church ofSwampscott, occurred recent
ly. Rev. DR.. Webb of Boston preached
Reconsideration sermon right hand OF tel
lowship was given by Prof Churchill of
Audover.
The Second Baptist church of Fall
River will hold the ordination services
of their newly-appointed pastor, Rev. E.
W. Hunt, on the evening of Tuesday,
Sept. 81. Prof. Andrew of the Newton
theological institution will preach the
ordination sermon.
Christ sometimes leaves his people in
regard to sense, but never without
promise. But Christ and the Holy Ghost
are actually present in the promise; so
the promise is able to uphold the soul in
any condition, not because of its own ma
ture, but because of the actual divine
presence in it.-DeU.
The Union Methodist Episcopal church
is new body just organized in Louisiana
by secession from the Methodist
Episcopal church, South. 1t has five
ministers, four appointments, and fifty
members. Opposition to holiness in the
church, South, Is given as the cause of
the secession.
Rev. DR.. Wenger, one of the oldest
missionaries in Calcutta, who had given
his special attention to Biblical transla-
ton in the Sanscrit and Bengali langua-
ges, is dead. He was an accomplished
Sanscrit scholar, and his version of the
Bible is used by all denominations of
Christians in Bengal,
The East Windsor, Ct. women have
not only paid third of the $l7OO debt
of the First Congregational church, but
have also fenced the building in, planted
evergreens about it, furnished blinds and
paint which will soon be put on, put
street lamps at the entrance and chan
delier inside, and set the clock in the
tower going.
At meeting recently of the Evangel-
ical Baptist benevolent and missionary
society, which controls the fremont
Temple property, in Boston, the building
committee were granted an additional
appropriation of $4,000, on account of
the excess of cost over the estimates for
the rebuilding, the total expense aggre-
eating nearly SlS5,OO0
Father Fitzpatrick of St. Gregory's
Catholic church, Lower Mills, Mass,
will Immediately begin the erection of
new church at Neponset. The contract
for the building has been awarded
to Beal & Spencer for 1880. The
body of the church will seat about 400,
and the building will be completed
about Christmas.
Mtesa, the emperor of Uganda, who
through Stanley. the explorer, begged
or Christian teachers who were immedi-
ately sent by the English church mis-
sionary society, has renounced Christian
ity and gone back to paganism, worship
ing Mokassa, tie god of Lake Nyanza,
whose spirit is supposed to reside in an
old woman who lives on the lake.
Rev. DIR. E. H. Chaplin, the well-known
preacher and lecturer, is seriously i'll.
Near the last of May he went abroad,
hoping to recuperate from the nervous
depression brought on by overwork, but
returned early in August, physically
little benefited. He has lost eighty
pounds in weight, and has little appetite,
yet his physicians are hopeful that he
may recover.
Cardinal Manning has issued a circular
explaining the rules of the Roman Catho-
lie church in reference to mixed marri-
ages When Roman Catholic and Il
Protestant are married, it is requisite not
only that they should have the ceremony
performed by Il Catholic priest, but that
they should abstain from subsequently
going before Protestant minister, such
an act being denounced as mortal sin,
"illicit," and ''sacreligious
Delegates from eight Baptist churches
met at the Second Baptist church ut
Sufiield, CT, recently, with Rev. A. j.
Sage of Hartford as moderator, to con-
slider the case of Rev. S. c. Chandler,
who was charged with heresy, The