The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29
RELIGIOUS WORLD.


75th anniversary on May 10 and IA.
The Easter offerings of st. James Protesl,
ant Eniscopal church, Philadelphia, reacheo
$4,000.
Rev. O. S. Fisher, A NJ, of Denver, mas
heen elected president of Fort Worth Unlver'
sity, Tex. -
a adv who recently died in Glasgow has
beoueatbed go 900 to Gen Booth 1or the oar
vaton Army.
Nearly 900 conversions are reported as
the result Evangelist &. A. fatmans spec"'
work In Denver.
Rev. Alfred Rigg, brother of Or: Rigg, has
been elected president of the victoria anu
Tasmania Conference.
Rev. ]. Agar Beet (Wesleyan), OF kich.
mond Theological College, has received tne
degree of d. D., from the University ol a'aS'
cow.
The ministers Of Hudson County, N. J:,ase
wagjnp vigorous crusade against the lnIail'
ouS racing and gambling resorts IN that coun'
ty.
Bishop Wilson, of the Methodist Episcopal
church. South, has returned to Baltimore
from an episcopal visit to the mission OF tna'
church In Asia.
Rev. DIR. w. NJ. Taylor, the pastor OF tne
Broadway Congregational church.NeW 1oIk'
recently received three Chinese and an Ar
menian into church fellowship.
DIR. Drees, SUPERINTENDENT of our mission
In South America, has appointed Rev. Dr. L.
b. Wood to open mission In Peru.
Mr., Moody's conferences at Northfeld this
summer will, as usual, be divided INTO Two
sessiops-tbe first from June 29-July y; the
second from August lilo.
Two students of the General Theological
Sc minary Episcopal of New YORK City,have
renowned the Pronounced faltn ana gone
over to the Roman Catholic church.
Rev. DR.. John c. Clough, CT the Ieluga y
Baptist Mission, who has been the leauer Oh
the two most remarkable revyals among Tie
modern missions, is in this country.
Rev. C. Meyer, Lutheran minister. OF
Herndon, Kan. has distributed $4,000 worth
of seed wheat among the Impoverished Lutn'
Grams on the Kansas frontier.
Rev. E. p. Whaen, d. d., OF lndlahapo,'
lis. has been chosen one OF the associate eui'
tors of the Herald and Presbyter.
The committee on the Congregational
House In Boston have reported In faVor OF
the erection of a new building on the ola sue
at a cost of 100000
Rev. DR.. Bridgman declines to recopsloer
his resignation from the Madison ave eod pap 'i
fist church. New York. A gift OF $o,Ooo has
been voted him by the church.
Kew. Or. CnaS. II. L al hnuI 81 VI 4>o
has been elected president of the society 1or
the Prevention of Crime, to fill the place OF
the late DR.. Howard Crosby.
Rev. j. C. Floyd of Michigan Conference,
has safely arrived in Singapore, his head
quarters as superintendent OF the Malayslan
mission OF the Methodist Episcopal church.
Rev. w. F. Oldham, until lately superin-
tendent of the Singapore Mission or the Meth,
odist Episcopal church, has been appointed
pastor of the Butler st. church, PlltsDurgn,
Pa.
Rev. DR.. George Dana Boardman, OF Phil
adelphia who has just returned from ltaly'
Celebrated the 27th anniversary of his pastor
ate of the First Baptist church on recent
Sunday.
Rev. Henry j, Van Dyke of Brooklyn has
been elected to the chair of systematic theol-
ogv in Union Theological Seminary. mace va
cant by the resignation of Prof. w. u. L.
Shedd.
Mrs. Martha T. Thomas of Boston, has
sent SIS 900 to Mrs. Bishop simpson as "a
perpetual endowment memorial OF her nus
band, Capt. ,Joseph B. Thomas" 1or tne
Orphanage at Philadelphia.
DIR. Charles H. Bradford has endowed the
Orphans Heme Ct the Met ,ni,h "a 900 and
the Woman's Christian Home of that city
with the same amount.
DR.. w. H. Hickman, president OF Ciarh
University, Atlanta has been chosen ny VI.
Lyman Abbott. the chairman, 10 1lsou nf ;h na
Lake Mohonk Conference, the question OF Tue
co-education of the races.
Rev. Thomas James, w!dely-known col
ored preacher, died recently at Rochester, n.
Y, aged 81 years. He believed himself TO DE
the last remaining representative OF MS race
born in slavery In New York.
In Divine Life for May DR.. Asbury Low
rev, the editor, celebrates his 10Th birthday.
He says 81 am living without fear. Not
tremor dsturbs my SOUL" A portrait OF tne
venerable doctor Is given.
Every Thursday CDR. Charles S.Robinsons
weekly paper has been merged INTO tne
Christian cat Work on account T o. tpe atrep,
ance of the pastorate OF the Ihlrteehth ST.
church of New York by DR.. Robinson.
Rev. O. l.. Fisher, of the Colorado Confer.
ence. and Superintendent of Methodist Clty
Mission work In Denver. has been elected
president of Port Worth University, IeXas.
and Mrs. Fisher preceptress of the same IN
sttution.
Rev. lydia Sexton, who was born in New
Jersey In 1893, is the Oldest woman preacher
In this country, and still breaches IN various
parts of the west. Her memory Is eXcellent,
her sight remarkably good, anu ner Noioe
clear and melodious.
L
waeing a vigorous crusade against the lnfa-
nous racing and gambling resorts In mat
county. A mass meeting of citizens was neld
In the Jersey City Tabernacle last Monday
evening to protest against pool selling and
the maintenance of the Gnttenburg race
track. The meeting was addressed by An,
thony Comstock, Rev. DR.. j. l.. Scudder and
others. An organization was formed to carry
on the fight.
Phillips Brooks's influence as much as any.
thing else explains the remarkable growth OF
the Episcopal church In Massachusetts OF
late years. Unitarianism has been almost
swallowed up by Its young people going into
the Episcopacy, and there has been no small
exodus to that church OF young people from
election of Mr.Brooks as bishop and his In
creased influence will still further swell the
movement New York Independent.
Nv way of contrast with the pleasant things
The Methodists are now saying ever the re.
turn of Rev. Emory j. Haynes to their fold
he Boston Waterman recalls that the Chris
ian Advocate of which Bishop Fowler was
hen editor, babe him farewell by observing
hat "Haynes had gone over the water. IL
will not be long before they will wish they
1ad anchored him." We are glad to believe |
continues the Waterman, that no Baptist
paper has ever used such language concern
ng one who united with another denomlna. |
ion. The Methodist papers seem disposed to
-etract the hard things they said about DIR. |
Haynes when he became a Baptist.
Speaking of Mrs. Beasant's theosophical
,vangel. the Congregationalist asks. strip
ped of its elaborate philosophical drapery. re.
luced to statement capable of being grasped
1y the gordinary mind. what is this mes.
sage so far as 1t relates to condurt?" Simply |
his, It continues, 1--WE must all be brothers.
No matter how vile each of our fellow-beiDgs
g, each has within him the essence of life,
md this we must resnecf and lnye frue