Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-04-30
Religious Intelligence.


In Wells River. much religious interest il
manifested. Several conversions have taken
place attcndanc' upon public meetings is
largely increased aud the prospect of plcn
tiiul spiritual harvest is most promising.
The religious interest in Brattkboro' CON
tinues unabated. The noon praver-meotng
and the evening meetings in the several
churches are kept up. with good attendance.
At the close of the last term at Amherst
College, the usual Junior Exhibition was
omitted on account of tho deep religious in
terest. Among all the students of this Col
lege, but seventeen remain unconverted, aud
nearly all of these are more or less interested.
In Brown University the work is very pow
orful, and some Of those hitherto mo t reck-
less and Indifferent have been hopefully CON
verted.
In Oglethorpe University, Georgia, nearly
every student is religiously impressed, and
II or $ entertain hope.
A gentleman from Ohio, lately stated that
by adding his own personal observations to
those friend, he could say, that from Oma-
ha City, Nebraska, to Washington, there
was line of prayer meetings along the whole
length of the road so that wherevera a Chris
tian traveller stopped to spend the evening
he could find a crowded prayer meeting,
across the entire breadth of our vast Repub-
lie.
The next session of the Vt. NJ. E. Confer
renee will be held at Mortified, Thursday
May 18th.
In the Methodist Conference held in New
York city, last week. Rev. Heman Bangs
contended that the Church had nothing to do
with the question of slavery; he thought sla-
very might exist on philanthropic grounds
without sin, and quoted St. Paul as recos-
nizing the institution.
The receipts of the American Tract Society
for eleven months past have been $4,000
less than in the same months the preceding
year, while the grants through colportagc
and other channels have increased.
We give a few extracts from :" Life
Thoughts of II. W. Beccher' just published,
and commend the beautiful and true
thoughts therein to the attention of readers
@ Let the day have blessed baptism, by
giving your first waking thoughts into the
the bosom of God. The first hour of the
morning is the rudder of the day"
Though the week we go down int, the
valleys of care and shadows. Our Sabbaths
should be hills of light and JOY in Gods
presence; and SO. us time rolls by, we shall
90 on from mountain top till at last we catch
the glory of the gate, and enter in to go no
more out forever"
9 Death is the dropping of the flower that
the fruit may swell. ="
Many men are lamenting their misfor-
tunes, and wishing that their place might be
changed that they might the more easily liv.
Christianity. If man cannot be Christian
in the place where he is, he cannot be
Christian anywhere
Every loving word that God speaks to
us acts back again, and makes music in
his heart. He never says. with scowl.
" Here comes that poor limping sinner
again The path Of the sinner back to
God is brighter and brighter all the way up
the smile Of the face and the touch of the
hand and that is salvation"
God pardons like mother, who kisses
into everlasting forgcttulness.
81 think half the troubles for which men
80 slouching in prayer to God are caused by
their intolerable pride. Many of our cares
are but Il morbid way of looking at our priv
ileges. We let our blessings get moudly and
then call them curses.