The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-03 00:00:00

A NEW YORK REFIV4E.

The Nero York Herold of March 16 publishes
two colonise of a report of a Reitgioaa Revival at Barton's."
The Herold gives the followhig heading to its account of the
proceedings
laeweet* Alter Meeting—Great Awaken* among
the Peopl►—Edth Forrest said to be convarted—Prayere
b actors sad leteeme—the Malleanium wild to have eoru-

;;;;;el the Theatres to be tamed into churches." It then
=l;les to Ads that " The Old Cbamt ere-street Ttwatre,
y used by Palm* se an open house, later by Mr. Bur-
ies se a theatre, and new, It is rid, hued by the general
government for cows was the scene of so Interest-
beg prayer meeting ye/Mouton, under the seep ces of
the Young Idea's Mistime Aseocistion. The sentence,
larladiag many ladies, filled the greater portion of the family
circle, dram circle sad gussets and the stage was occupied
by the Rev Theodor* L. Curler, Rev. DT. Hatfield, and
Nu. Mr. Jones, who conducted the proceedings. There
true many puma who avowed that they had never be-
fore been Meade of a playhouse, as well is others, perhaps,
who bad bat rarely beim to a preyer meeting.
The exercises were opened by singing a hymn, com-
swiceng—

"Come, yo rows, poor and needy,
Weak end wounded, sick and sore..•
Alter which the President, Rev. T. L. Coyle', read the
well hegira parable of the Prodigal 13.ci, and then celled upon
Rey. Mr. Iletfkld of the Forsyth-street Methodist Episcopal
church. to pray.
Ste lirrad Rime a short-hand report ..f the prayer,
thoroughly scriptural compositioft ferret:it and animated, and
mallis good testa. At its ronclusiou the

Itsv7 T. L. Cuylee mime forward and maid—At last
we may congratulate the defenders of the stage that a theatre
bee become asi hoot of virtue, and not • a hoot of vice—a
he of prayer and sot • haunt of profanity—a spot for the
lend Will of penitence, and not the scene i.f detitlotta grief
ewer the fictitious sotrowv of the stage. For this let ne gtve
God the glory. To-day, for the woad time in the history
of New York, we set apart a clamed play-house for a house
N warship. Oh, what soul tragedies may have bean enacted
la We very building. From yonder tt pit" how many
he,, gone down to the pit of everlasting despair. Let our
aweless here be am solemn as eternity. Let 14 invoke the
pram* dOat's Spirit, and may this firmer habitstim of
the tempter be the very habitation of Ood.
The audience then pied in singing duet verses of the
176th hymn—

"Cosy Mawr, In whose runty hreett
A %boomed thought. revoive:•
Mr. Coyler thee lutaouticed that the wetting warn tow
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A young beglier in the family circle (we are abridging
from the //arcs/!) wanted tove the good tiding from other
nem Ile had officiated at the daily prayer meetings at the
Taltos-street Dateb church, and had from that gene to
Plulattelphie to carry on the good work. The first meeting
there was a' ended by but thirty-en gentlemen and three
ladies; bet the last one was attended by between three and
tour thousand peremas—thas showing what God was doles.
The merchant, the mechanic and the little remind boy were
there. They had built up sitars for pleasure and fee pout,
seed God had taken them all mei), like an wralanehe but
mow, God h.deient down fin from Mann to kindle is the
hearts of the
pso*a hr." or Jima (lino. A Philadelphia
brother had told lis to tell his New York brethren that be
lowed them. This was what this great work was doing. It
was embalming the love of •lINIOS Christ in every Christiaa
been. If there was a young man present who could only
stand op and say one word fur Christ, let him stand up end
my it.
The audience then joined in singing a part of the 209th
Hymn
" Blow ye the trumpet, blow."
An aged brother in the per.pic.te prayed fervently for the
spirit tf God to come down in their wider.
A 'omit brother in the parquet, prap..l earnestly that if
My bad come to that place bitholy tht it hearts might be
Need—that God would continue hire work, and pour down
spirit upon this city, an 4 that his tightening= would
clover the land as waters do the face of the deep.
A middle-aged brother in the family circle said he eor-
dially endorsed the remark, of the last br4her bat one—
that there never was a time for revisals like this. lie ,
Mosel( did not believe that there was since the days of
11Vhitfleld. This revival was sweeping ceer tin land
with overwhelming power, and he did not think there would
ever be such another like it; no, he did cot believe there
would OWr be mother revival. (or be believed that this
was the time spoken of is the Bible aa the latter day—the
time of Christ'. sewed reign upon earth. He never felt
bad when he saw theatres being built, he bad seen the
nth men's names put down as the stockholder' of the
Boehm theatre, but le told them it would Litt poy; that was
the trath, and the theatre would have to be seld beretwe it
maid not pay enrages. It was just to with the Tremont
theatre, which had finally come to he • Mote of prayer. Old
Dr. Beecher bad said Ise would preach the gospel there, and
he did so, tor he was himself there, end saw the old man
sitting on the stage where so many empties had been en-
siled, sad heard him preach a Christian sermon there. Let
them take courage from this, for they knew that God WY in
their si4e.

Creititer on the other side of the gallery related as 'mi-
dget appropriate to the piste of meeting. It was • story of •
kady who had tgo daughters and • ha.baci engaged upon
the stage. She soridentally had pla7ed in her beads •
end called " Prayer," the great question (4 which was,
"Do you pray r She was led to serious thoughts, and
finally converted, sad snoceeded in bringing her daugh-
ters an I her husband to Christ and in re...tieing the glory of
God. Another case was that of • a.houl *whet who had
gone to • theatre to hunt up one of his a hulars, • little
armed boy. He there met • yolllllr lady who was anxious to
know •• what she should du to be saved ? " She was soon
led into the right path, and was the means of bringing with
her many of her ssexiatee. These thimrs showed that
theatre adore and actresses were not beyond the pals of the
prayers of Christians. ("Amen," sad cries of "Hear.")
A young reallesoan in the middle aisle of the dress tire*
wee squally anxious fur the ronvemion of actors and actress...
He said that Mr. Edwin Forrest whom he believed to be
me of the greatest actors in this city, had lately experienced
religion. The audience then joined in signing the 220th
hysas—
" Joy to the world : the Lord is come."
Rev. Mr. Hatfield said they must we that this work
was nut stopped. Men might sing and pray and talk the re-
ligioa out of themselves as well as they might It.. It in
places of pleasure. They should see to it that they did all
they could iedividnally for the edvannement of the cense.
Several brethren here endeavoured to speak, but as aged
brother in the parquets got the fluor and prayed earnestly
that this revival might Lecume universal thr"ughout the city.
When he had imooladel, @event other brethren essayed to
speak, but Mr. Copier said the hour for oloaing the meeting
had arrived, sad those who had any remarks to make had
better save them until the next day. The s xereisee then
closed with the singing of the 213th hymn.

GERMAN GAMING-110V8E9. A Berlin letter
asealung of the unanimous decision of the .ieromittee of the
Upper Chamber of Prussia in Einar of the r.lnliti not public
gaming-bones s Genuany, *banes —" The only estab-
lishment of the kind in Prussia, that of Aix-la-Chapelle, was
suppremed en 1854. The gaining-boners in the ether Def-
use states did ant Mame. to any greet ext, Lt until those
ia Paris were suppressed in 1838. Ten yeors ii:er there were
not lees then 13 of these establishments to Germany, all in
the petty elates. In spite of the efforts of the great ones the
Diet hen never been ebb to put an end to the evil. The
project for suppreming such establishments. pineested to
the Diet In 1814 by Wurteroberg, only led to a pro-
the committee charged to eruo.ino the question,
bat trhich ham
proposition was not adopted by the Diet, although
thirty government. had nixie known their adhesion to It. In
1848, the National Assembly at Frankfort occupied itself
with thequestion of the gambling-houses, and in its sitting of
W Bth of Jemmy adopted • law which ordered the cloang
from the Ist of Way, 18.49, of all the establishment. of the
Idol aisle; is Germany. The company at Homburg was
the rely one that refused to obey the decree, and the armed
twee ins obliged to laterfere to secure the execution of the
kw. But is coningerne of the political events which after-
taste took piece all the gambling-houses, with the az-
winks of that of Kissing, were p7:l=
brought the question before the Dirt. The
charged to exemluo the Primelen preposition could set eats
to an usderstauding, and naturally the Lau vide bad
gneabliug-house or lotteries defended thous kelitiniess,
which wen • eases of mit to their treasury, while the
stake is which they were prohibited insisted on the necemity
of their bMag Interdicted throughout the whole or 11...
Oman& codGdwation. If Prank now again seeks to
rears her efforts foe the suppression of gambling-houses she
must also demand the abolition of lotteries, am! the Truserian
Tnienry cannot well support the loos wherb wt,uld result
from the latter measure. Little hopes Rre therefore enter-
tained of • better result from any flab enemy. mode by the
German legabouree or governments for the removal of
them istablatements so univemay condemned by peak
HAelt FOII6ItRT AT STDISZT.—For the lit two
days a rumour i 1•11 spread through the Vern that a forgery
It=eztent had bete committed upon one A our bask-
WS tines, end that the sucererful perpetrator had ab-
signied with s immense qunatity d golf and beak-actaa.
310,008/. our seined as the @mast, and in the Batumi
renege of things the. NM rapidly increased mall it
seathed 40.0001, •• the report emulated from one
to the ether. Without due ocsination of the fat so
TM/I• uswilltag at the time to publish any of the waive
nongtieno which were prevalent. We have aka made
every *wary so ascertain the truth or Welty of the
mesa; bet, as the only arta. who ere s proseeeles of
W demi* of what turn out to be a very serious km;
ere unwitting, is the premst stage of the matter, to ppsb-
Iki we ran only date the bete fact. which may
be Mal upon, via., that hills pinnoerring to he
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