New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-30

reom Wa completely 6Hed. the saeienos coassting
chiefly Of boys, with q number Of thor parents sai
hiends
The Rev. DR.. CHEEyTE prs'ided and The meet x
yas opeped with tie usual order OF iey ot,na. eIer.
oises. singing an! prayer.
Tie Rev. THEODORE L. CrrrER said that this wa
q very remAksble tins. 1t seemed a. al that
Christian, had 10 do was 10 get alongside OF an I'M
mortal soul and they found him ready to be taken
bo'd o. and waiting for salvation. There number of
h,y. bad assembled VITO offered to put their hearts in
The bsrd, Of good people, aud who asked them
to love them. Youth is just the time to com
nepce aeryipg the Lord. tree can a.
ways be well cultivated in rs tender years, but
ube, a tres gets old it is difficult and almost i'm
possible TO fix Il 80 10 grow properly Early life Is
The season in which to be pulled out OF the devils
groupd and planted in Chrsts garden. Faith is very
essv but very dangerous TO wait for He said that
their hearts fountains and the Natural ou,pcur
ings of these fountains Wore impure but II they would
come to Christ their hearts would be made pure.
He remembered reading in his YOUTH in the life Of Ma
than Dickerman of Boston, how at years of age he
Lad served the Lord and died in the happy assurance
tia. be was goirg home TO heaven. Pau used to
love Timothy more especially because Timothy loved
Christ when a child.
Vs.. Donor, esd. made brief address TO the
children describing the difference between being sorry
for sin and being sorry on account of SIN.
The Rev. r. NJ. HATFIELD said that ne could sym
p.hize with the parents and friends who had brought
the bows together and who were solcitous on behalf
of conversion lie afraid that parents do not ordi-
rsrly pray for their children as they ought. Hssup
posed he would shock some If he should say that not
few parents unwilling to have their children
converted at all. But he did not believe there a
boy present who thought that he would be better off
and happier by being wicked than by following Jesus
who loved little children He referred to of the
sDs of youth, particularly di.obedience to parents,
assuring them that a time of recOmpense would
come. he related the anecdote OF the leNcog.
rapher, DR.. johns on, who, when boy had refused
20 accompany his father to the market place during
fair ard how 10 subsequent years, after his father
dead, the remembrance Of the occasion rushed IN
upon his memory and made him unhappy even when
a man. He related also the story of a minister who
was once preaching to the inmates of prison. each
prisoner being III his cell, and not in sight OF the
speaker. While speaking, he asked all who had
been confined there because they had obeyed their
parents to rap the doors of their cells they not be-
ing allowed to speak, He paused, and oil was silent
He then reversed the question: How many are here
because they disobeyed their parents p and the long
condor resounded with the raps upon the cell doors
To illustrate how happy religion could make little
bow. he told of q young English chimney-swee "a
climbing boy" who notwithstanding the miserable,
unhappy, perilous business in which he was engaged
was heard one day when away up IN narrow hue,
scrapng the SCOT from the walls, singing those beau
full words:
Be bsnished from thi. plsce," &c.
He assured them that il was easier to accept Christ
now than it would be when they grew old, for they
row had fewer sirs their hearts not 40 hardened,
and bad habits had not been formed. He was afraid
that parents did not ympathize with the solicitations
of their children as much they ought He conclu.
ded by asking all who wanted TO be Christians and
would ike interest in the prayers of Gods people,
TO manifest the by holding up their hands. Quite
a large number held up their hands He then charged
them to remember what they had done.
After he concluded prayer was offered by one of the
oder boys present.
TIE Rev. DR.. MARSH asked the boys whether they
would like to meet there again next Saturday. In
spcnse every boy in the room held up his hand for
the continuance Of the - Boys Union Meett1g.' Mr..
HART the gentleman who had charge of the singing,
announced the parting hymn
Here suffer grief and psin,' &c.
which was sung with considerable enthusiasm. DIR.
MARSH proI ounced the benedction, and the boys
went home. The Geeting throughout was one of nc
little move ty ard interest. At the time when the boys
requested to be prayed for, several parents present
az pesred to be greatly affected and shed tears.
BArTIsM.-On Sunday evening fourteen persons
pine women ard five men, were baptized at the
Stanton street Baptist Church. There were three
married couples included in the number baptized. The
church was filed with large congregation, end m,ny
VI able 10 gain admission forced to 60 away d.
apDOipted.