Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-06-16

Church so TAR as DttoHss 10 huiDdu ,hodusJ
&c a we'll furnished and able ministry. So
cieties with this design are formed, or form
ing. in every part of our connection 1.-THE
hand of encouragement begins to be extend
ed to youthful piety and ardour lard many a
mind of genius and power which would have
been utterly lost to the church's service is
now rescued from ignorance and obscurity,
and rapidly fitting for the most important
stations ia her public veal. Our seminary
at Princeton has numbered within the past
year seventy students, and many more are
in training throughout the church with an ul-
innate view of entering the Seminary
That invaluable school of sacred learning
exhibits whatever of piety and OF promise
its most ardent friends could reasonably
EXPECT, and the students who have gone
forth from 1t have already proved blessings
to the church. Education Society in
the western Presbyteries of New York, and
the General Board of Education organized
under the inspection of the General Assem-.
bly,, hare eminently contributed to the fur
therance Of this sacred cause; while the
outposring of the Holy Spirit on more than
one of our Colleges gives cheering evidence
that it is cause which receives the notice
and enjoys the smiles of lions King In
Union College from twenty. FIVE to thirty
students have within the year become the
hopeful subjects of converting grace In
the college of Athens, in Ohio, twelve have
been added to the number before pious,
making that number upwards of thirty
Hamilton College contains fifty young men
who are supposed by its President TO be re-
ligiously impressed : and we are happy to
learn from our Eastern brethren. that Dart
mouth college exhibits much seriousness, end
that 10 Williams college more than half of
the entire number of its members are prepa-
ring to enter on theological studies. Among
this extensive corps of the future servants of
the Cross, let US not forget about thirty stu
dents in The Mission School at Cornwall, in
Connecticut, and seven in the African School
at Percipany, in New-Jersey the former
are children of various heather countries,
the gift of very marked and affecting pro-
violence to the Christians of America, and
are destined to return to The shores and to
the forests from which they wandered, rich.
ly laden with good for their native land the
latter are descendants of Africa, and hope,
one day, TO bring TO their much injured Mo-
ther, with the tears and confessions of Anne.
RIGA, her offering of recompense in the Cos
pei of the Son of God.
But beside education directly ministerial,
the Assembly are rejoiced to observe that
religious instruction in general continues to
be Increasingly provided for the youth of
the Church. Bible classes are multiplying,
and can never multiply too much; while
Sabbath schools, one Of the happiest inven-
tons of the age, are every where extending
their benign eff cts both on the teachers and
the taught. New-York contains nearly
eighty of these schools, and educates about
nine thousand scholars f; Philadelphia about
fourteen thousand, Baltimore above eight
thousand, and other cities in proportion.-
Nor can we forbear to mention that within
one Of our Presbyteries the opportunity for
the reception of religious instruction, af-
forded by these little nurseries of truth, has
been embraced by many members of the
Romisb communion. who were prohibited
from entering Protestant place of wor-
ship.
That spirit of multiform benevolence
which so eminently marks the present era
throughout Christendom has, of late, ad-
dressed ITS compassionate regard to the con-
dition ofour Seamen. Not only have tracts
and bibles been distributed in numbers a
mong our shipping, but places of worship
have been opened in our Atlantic cities ex-
pressly for the use Of sailors and their iami-
lies, The result has been gratifying beyond
the most sanguine hope. Not on y have that
too long neglect ID class oil men sbewn them
selves sensible of this mark of christian re.
membrance, and willing to attend on public
ordinances "a privilege from which they
thought themselves in a great measure ex-
cluded by their dress and appearance but
they have listened with deep earnestness to
to the wore preached to them; tears have
flowed over their hardy cheeks, and hearts