The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-04-24
RELIaIoue INpELLIaENoE.

Burlington is sharing 10 % considerable ca
tent in tho general revival Religious meet
ings, both public and private, have been great
~ multiplied Of late, and number Of con
versions, especially among the younger por-
ton Of the community, have taken place
Twenty persons were haptised AZ the Baptist
Church last Sunday The daily noon prayer
meeting for business men, Is continued IN the
iiHptiEt Church, uud " writ attrrrdrti
IN Brandon union prayer meetings are held
daily at o o'clock 4. n. IN the Methodist, Con
Fregational and Baptist churches alternately,
These are very fully attended and the inter
est Is increasing.
A good degree Of religious interest Is man
ifest In ontpelier,-meetings being held al
most every evening In some Of the churches,
The Rutland HvaH states that some two
hundred persons have been converted IN that
place, since the commencement Of the reyl-
val there
~ Cnsteton, meetings are held every even
Ing also, morning prayer meetings, attended
with increasing interest Similar meetings
are held Of West Rutland, Pilthord, Claren-
don, Mic dletown, Ira, Fairhayen, and other
places IN Rutland county,
Sixteen young persons, nearly oil members
Of the Sabbath school have been added 10
the Baptist church In SALISBURY, W. a cor
respondent Of the Waterman & Reflector
NrtinWR from Plymouth, W., says 49," The last
Sabbath in March was a day that will long
be remembered by the Baptist church IN
Plymouth Zen willing converts we're bur
led with Christ In baptism" Amer the peo-
pie retured 10 the house Of worship, the hand
Of fellowship was extended 10 fifteen happy
converts"
In Nowbury, ", there Is a great religious
awakening, The Congregational and Meth
odst societies have each prayer meetings eve
~ evening, and many Of the stuicnts at the
Seminary are hopefully converted.
The religious interest continues undated
in lrattloboro, The noon prayer meetings
in the Town Hall have been kept up every
weekday for three or four weeks and the in
lcrcst seems undated, Meeting are held
in the several churches evenings quite fire.
qucptly aud are well attended.
In Bennington, meetings are held nearly
every evening in the different churches, On
Thursday evening last a union prayer meet
ing was held at the Congregational church.
II was attended by upwards Of 500 persons,
the church being filed to its utmost capacity
letter from Rev. T.. Fay, Of Lancaster,
Of the sth instant, says '--" must snatch
to tell you God is in this place yes,
even here in this valley and the dry bones
begin 10 move, Instead Of one prayer meet
ing u week, We now have two daily and some
days three and instead Of two or three at
meeting, We now have hSo amt three hu,d
red
The Winter lrm Of Amherst College
closed last Tuesday The usual Junior Ia.
hibition was omitted, neither Faculty nor stu
dents thinking il desirable that amy thing
should take place TO attract from religious
things the attention which all were disposed
to bcstow upon them alone. As the result
Of the revival there remain only seventeen
students who do not indulge hope ia Christ;
almost every ouc Of the seventeen Is interest.
ad, samo af them deeply 49,,
We learn that more than hundred of
the students Of Yale College have been hope
fully converted within a few weeks past, in.
Guiding soWcwh0 wJutJt nave bcru tcrruryi
the most unlikely to become subjects Of such
4 work.