Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-05-07

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he had in his congregation many whose
interests were closely connected with the
South. and indeed whose whole estates lay
in region unfit for themselves to inhabi''
but which they were in duty bound to up
hold even at the expense Of the peace,
unity aud purity Of the church. Mr. Tying
was on that occasion requested to leave on
the plea that the church of Epiphany had
nothing to do with national sins, and a
gentleman from the "infected district
was, with very bad taste, chosen in his
stead, and in very much worse taste, ac-
cepted the call; circumstance which
showed conclusively, that slavery was the
only national sin they had any particular
interest in.
Mr. Tying, who was an active Christian,
at once organized a new congregation IN
a public hall, where he has been gaining
strength and adding to his influence ever
since When the present remarkable re-
viyal took place, he was among the first OF
its supporters, and while he was spared
battled maufully, and fell in the harness !;
for he was deeply interested to the last in
the great work.
Perhaps, since the first organization
of the Reformed Church, there has not
| been such scene enacted as that at MIR.
Tyng's funeral obsequies, and on one or
two occasions at the hall of prayer. The
millennium seemed for the moment to have
just begun, and all il promised peace to
have descended to the earth. The church
for the moment doffed her mitre and took
her seat in happy communion with Baptist
ard Presbyterian, and Dutch Reformed
and Coyeuauter-he old and deadlicst foe
and Methodist and any other dissen-
ter" who was willing to "stand up for
| Christ"
| have Just returned from one Of the
Jayne's Hall meetings, and such scene
is worth visit to the city from greater
distance than Lewisburg. Mingled in one
brotherhood on the spacious stand were
ministers of almost every denomination.
From grand chorus of not less than two
thousand voices, was going up, at the mo-
men. l entered, the touching hymn,
| "Cone Holy Spirit, Heavenly dove"
and the effect you can possibly imagine, l
can't describe
But if the exercises were interesting and
highly Christian, the audience was certain
ly interesting and curious. The merchant
from the great thoroughfares Of mammon
leaving his countinghouse (for the hour)
and his cares behind him, was there, deeply
attentive and apparently deeply concerned.
His clerk and his porter were there also,
mingliDg for once in worship with their
employer, where no door plates and locks
bar intruders from cushioned pews, and
send strangers and poor folks to the gal
lery. The policeman's star was also visi-
Bile among the crowd, and the man about
town, "bearded like the pard" and whose
presence was never seen in church,
seemed among the most attentive of lis
teners.
The prayers possessed all the fervor Of
feeling, earnestness ofappeal, belonging to
warm hearted, true piety, without any Of
the enthusiasm and excitement generally
consequent on revival seasons, and the
addresses, short and to the point, were Of
the same class, and seemed to tell on the
| hearers.
But this state of affairs is not at all
confined to one spot. In all the churches,
there are many enquiring "the way" The
Sabbath Schools are sending out their
young recruits by hundreds, and the poor,
destitute wanderers, are forgetting their
sorrows and crowding to the cross, like the
pilgrims to the ford of Jordan.
The writer has been employed in Mig
sion Sabbath School for ten years past,
and only now is he, with his fellow teach
ers, beginning to reap the fruits of their
labors, which, many time and oft forget
ting the promises, they had looked upon
as thrown away. 1t would do you good
to see few of US packed into little stiff
ling, and almost unfurnished room,i in some
one of the houses Of our people, surround
ed by crowd Of most unsavory sinners
who are just beginning to feel that they
have souls, and that We have really been
in earnest all these long years, when We
have tried to tell them and their children
that We loved them, and were laboring for
their good. Their gratitude is reward
for any amount Of labor.
There are districts in our city, as much
in want of faithful missionary efforts,as in
China or Hindoostan, and as legitimate
field. They are reached only by the Sab
bath school teacher: and then only through
the medium of their children. l myself
have assisted and lectured at evening con-
versational meetings, when we had to en-
ploy police force, both inside and out of
rho buildinO IN preserve the neacp and