True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1858-03-10

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gious papers. that . marked movement is
going on 10 religion, which is calculated
in the highest degree TO cheer the hearts
of all who are sincere christians.
In the city of'New York, great work
of grace is going on. A correspondent,
of the n. Protestant, writing from N.
York says:-
GA very general lull in the secula,
buzz of all departments Of business ha.
given men time and opportunity to repent
and they are repenIing. Sinners are
crowding around The rector and the reader
mournfully beseeching what they shall Dc
10 be saved. Anxious seats and altart
are filed, while rank after rank is slain
and advancing columns rush on To shar,
the same fortune.
In our own church (Attorney street,
good work. is being accomplished prodi
gals are Vieing with each other to obtail
place Of service in the Fathers house
We have but short time since made oui
means of grace an extraordinary one; but
now the alter was well nigh filled each
night. Some forty or fifty have met with
favorable change, and we hope they are
firm in christian faith and practice.
Bro. j. J. Smith, in Grand street
Brooklyn, is still favored with an extern
sive revival in his charge. One hundred
have professed godliness, and the greater
part Of them is secured to the church.
/ might have observed as much con-
cerning our own revival. We have taken
into probation all, excepting, perhaps,
four or FIVE,
The heavy downtown church edifces
are open every secular day IN the week
for prayer; and they are filled with
earnest worshippers- merchants, clerks,
bankers, mechanics, cartmen, editors--all
enjoying this new praying hour, from IL
O'Clock A. NJ, TO | o'clock P. m. And
am told the Presbyterians are more
jealous than the Methodists are,
The Holy Spirit has inaugurated this
year. 1858. auspiciously indeed for our
wicked city, doing abundantly more for
our people than many years municipal
ordinances have been able to do.
Thanks be to God, who giveth Us this
great victory" .'
The following is copied from our east
ern exchanges, and is worthy Of place
in this, or any other paper:
"That great religious movement is
now going on, both in this country and in
England, is one of the facts of the age,
which we, as faithful chroniclers Of the
times in which we liye,are bound to notice,
There is such movement now in pro-
gress. 1t commenced in England among
the Dissenters, and was promptly secon-
ded by the Low church or "Evangelical'
portion of the establishments, who freely
fraterLizing with their Protestant brethern
of other denomination, inaugurated in the
city of London and in the great towns,
more especially in the manufacturing dis
,ricts. series of weekday services and
night lectures for the working classes
Success attended the good work. Soon
the Established church began to move in
the matter. News of what was going on
among the people reached the cars of
their lordships, the Bishops, doing Sleep
lily on their bench in the House of Lords,
or buried in the seclusion of their Epis.
copal palaces. By'andby these titled
prelaies, in their lawn sleeves, we're found
actively engaged in forwarding The move
ment. The whole High church party
responded 10 the example of their eccle.,
siastical superiors; learned men, fond of
their ease and their books, quit The clois-
tered retirement Of their colleges, and
the rural seclusion of country parsonages
TO preach the Gospel to the people. The
parish churches soon became insufficient
70 contain the multiIudes that came 10
listen, and unwilling that any should be
cent empty away, deans and chapters
were found ready to consent that the gray
old cathedraIs and stately minister's OF En-.
gland should be opened to the worship
Of the people. for the first time since the
Reformation. We published on Satur-
day an interesting accoun, of one Of these
Sunday night services in W Westminster Alb
hey, in which the writer finely describes
the vast throng before the abbey gates,
waiting patiently in the frosty air Of Jan.
usry night for the services to begin--the
opening Of the doors--the food Of gas
light rushing out and the eager throng
rushing in--the solemn organ peal-and
the 6nal awakening of the whole medic.
val fabric from its dusty sleep to modern
human use. Such is the preset condi-
tien Of the religious world in England
In this country the movement began in
the city Of New York, during the heigh.
Of The late financial panic, in daily pray
er meeting held for business men, between
the hours Of twelve and one, in the sess-
ion rooms Of the Dutch Reformed church,
corner Of William and Fulton streets. 1t
gradually spred, until a, the present time,
according 10 the Herald, "there are now
in the city Of New York Twelve daily
prayer MEETINGS Of all the evangelical de.
nominations, besides the daily services at
the Episcopal and Roman Catholic
churches" "These services" adds the
Herald, "are attended by not less than
sen or twelve thousand persons every day.
the prayer meetings are crowded, and the
ATTENDANCE at the Lenten church services
is greatly ia excess Of any previous year."
In our own favored city voice has
beenheard which has gladdened the hearts
Of believers with the expectation Of viclo-
Sy overthe powers Of darkness. Ministers
OF the various churches have for weeks
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