Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-03-17
from the North Star.
Great Religious RCvivalS.

uncommonly prevalent throughout our war
making and man-stealing, ecclesiastical and
political Union. Vermont, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Ten
ncssee, and Mississippi, arc triumphantly
trumpeted by our slayeholding religious press,
as being at pr sent favored with Il most copi-
Gus out-pouring of the spirit OF God. There
is a revival now going forward In this city.
We understand that one has been in progress
at Waterloo, during the entire winter anoth-
or too, is on the " full tide Of successful ope-
ration" in Geneva. Churches and Ministers
which have during a long period, gone thro'
the dead form and dumb-show Of religious
worship. with az little life, as il the Holy
spirit had hidden them adieu and taken its
everlasting fight-1re at last aroused from
their stupor by the galvanic operation OF pro-
tracted meetings. or the various plans pro-
posed, for getting up these ~revivals, none
seem TO be REGARDED with more general favor,
than protractsd meetings. All praying in the
closet, and preaching in the pulpit, seem I'M
availing in producing a revival without these.
Butte carry on these successfully, extra metal
of a peculiar cast must be employed. The
usual minister answers very well for the COM
mon occasions Of religious services; but he
cannot create or manage the storm Of revival.
A preacher must be obtained by importation
nv o,berwisa nossessinr LARGELY that wonder
ful onali,v-tnoyn among lid rnvivalists. as
,hs - falling uower." The psnteel and re-
fned. Din noi usually nossess This power-re-
vivals seldom follow The polite and beautiful
sermons of Reverend Drs. of Divinity; these
NAV do very well for Sunday morning, when
the heads Of the congregation have been cool
ed, cleared, and chastened by refreshing sleep;
but such ministers are wholly unequal to stir
ring up that wild-lire in the passions Of a
community, which is cotnprehended in the
magic tenn revival" 1t requires more of
the sold Rough and Ready" material, to
create and carry through these high and bois-
ferrous storms of fiery passion, than is usually
possessed by learned Drs. The latter, there
fore, are commonly lost sight Of during these
times. Largo lungs are found to be far more
effective, than large heads, while "revivals are
in progress. But when the revival is over,
srder takes tho place of confusion-reason
controls tho PASSIONS; the isan who has near
" exhausted his organs Of speech, ruined his
lungs, and through whose powerful and wear
ing lahors hundreds have been added TO the
church, must give way to make place for
some Dr., who, as Cough says, ''puts the
polishing m"
One Of this unfortunate class, who has long
beat the bush, while others caught the hare
complained TO us a few days ago, that due
credit had not been given to him by his moro
refined brethren OF the craft, for having been
the means under Con, of awakening souls,
and getting up a revival in his town. He
gave us an account Of the very spot, TO use
is own words,) where the revival "broke
OUT and traced it from one church to another
all over the vicinity. In none of those church,
es, he said, was anything mentioned, indica-
ting who had commenced the work. In all
the EXPLANATIONS OF this apparently sincere
and good man, about the value of precious
souls and the glory Of God, it was evident, that
he had not forgotten the need of praise due
to himself. Well, could anything else BIO eX-
pected, when man " ho has toiled and sweat
ed, and almost worn out his lungs in convert
ing souls, sees another too lazy and lieless
to get up a revival Ter himself, not only pock-
citing the cash resulting from those labors,
but actually carrying oil the glory oil these
REVEALS; we do not marvel, that they feel
grieved and wronged. 1t is, however, no part
of our purpose to remedy this evll-we al
lude 10 it simply as an illustration Of the cha
racters of the men engaged in carrying on re-
yivals.
The great purpose for which we call alien
ton TO this subject, is because of its relation
and bearing upon the righteous reforms of the
age, and especially the an,i-slavery reform
1t is remarkable as it is true, that the high
claims of outraged humanity, are never more
disregarded, than in times Of what are popu'
larry called religious REVEALS, and by the We
~ persons protesting to be most deeply in
terestsd in carrying them on. There may be
exceptions 10 this broad and general state
ment; but our whole experience as a slave
and as a freeman at the South and al tn
North, confirms us in the full truth of thi
statement.
In these days, humanity has cause to mour
rather than rejoice over what is popularity re
garded, as an out-pouring Of the spirit Of God
It was not so in the days of Christ and hi
Apostles. A revival then, was in perfe'
keeping with going about doing good, relie'
ing distress, enlightening the ignorant an
improving the physical condition OF mankin
TO propose such works to our reyivalist
seems almost a wasteiul expenditure of tim
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