Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-04-15
Religious Revival Intelligence.

Religious Revival Intelligence.
We probably have devoted less space
to the present extraordinary religious
throughout the country, than
the secular press generally. Il would
be impossible to give even condensed
statement the revival progress in .
single state, or less section of country.
Its influence seems to pervade, more or
less in all parts of the land. The follow.
ing extracts are taken from the summa-
ry of revival news in the Daily N. Y.
Tribune of April 10.
Accounts from all parts of the coun-
try indicate that the Revival is increas-
ing, especially in the Northern and
Western State. The prayer meetings
in all the large cities are increasing in
number, and are crowded to oyerfiowing
daily.
In Cincinnati, every hour in the day,
has its prayer meetings., commencing at
sunrise and ending at bedtime. At
Union prayer-meeting held at the First
Presbyterian Church in that city few
days since, Prof o. M. Mitchell, opened
the services by reading portion of the
l04th Psalm and Christ's Sermon on the
Mount. Near the close of the services
Bishop McIlvaine of the Episcopal
Church arose and advanced to the alter.
The Times says: "There was stiffness
!" throughout the entire congregation as
che did SO, every one seemingly anx-
ious to hear every word which should
/" drop from the eloquent prelats's lips"
The following is portion of his ad-
dress:
BRETHREN AND FRIENDS: My Off
cial duties have prevented me from be-
ing present at any of the meetings until
this morning. In experience in relig.
ious matters, including the great, Reyi-
walls of the present century, have, per-
haps the advantage of the great major
ity of this vast assembly, extending back
as it does, about fifty-fve year. must
say that the present Revival is essen
TALLY different from all others that / have
witnessed in that time because in them
large amount of human machinery was
manifest while in these human agency
seems to be entirely ignored and the
spirit of God alone it would appear is
the moving power"
At Washington five daily prayer.
meetings are held, at CLIP, 10 and IL
A. NJ, and at and P. M. At some
of these the attendance reaches 1000.
On Sunday last several persons were
baptized in the Potomac, and among
them thirteen were colorsd. The whites
were all females.
At Louisville, KY, the daily union
prayer-meeting numbers 1000 in atten-
dance.
In the First Baptist Church, Provid-
ence, Rhode Island, SONS striking cases
of conversion have recently occurred,
ten prominent lawyers of the
city. Baptism was administered on
to over fifty persons.
The various prayer meetings in Bos-
ton continue to be largely attended,
with no abatement Of interest AT the
business mems meeting at the Old South,
on Monday, it was announced that lo2
persons were baptised the previous day
in the Merrimac River, thirty Of whom
were heads of families.
The revivals in Yale College is proba.
bly, without precedent, so far as num-
bers interested are concerned. In fact
it is said to include nearly all of the
students. Among the converts are some
who have been very bitter scoffers, and
who were tolerably well armed with the
philosophy of the infdel.
In North Woodstock, Conn, ga con-
{" vert is found in almost every family in
(" the parish, with the exception of those
"whose members were all pious before.
The Newburyport Herald gives a vi
vid description of the great baptizing by
Elder Pike of 81 converts on Sunday
last. AS many as eight or ten thousand
spectators were present, covering the
wharves, the shipping, filing hundreds
Of moving boats on the Merrimac, and
covering the roof Of houses and sheds
wherever view of the unusual scene
could be obtained. The converts march
ed in procession from the church to the
river, dressed in baptismal robes of
black silk with white collars. About an
hour was occupied in the baptism.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y.-The interest
in this city is great and increasing. Ev-
cry bell in the city has sounded evening
after evening, and every church has
been filed during this time. There are
two daily prayer meetings now estab-
lished. Converts have come in with
surprising rapidity. Union College has
been blessed in manner never known.
Places of resort for dissipation have
been thinned out. Many of the oldest
inhabitants say that there was never be-
fore such time known.
RocKAwAY, L. 1.-The revival, which
has been for some time in progress, has
had such an influence upon the commun-
ity that there are not more than half
dozen adult persons in the place who
have not become members of churches.
Among those who have been recently
converted are 800 fishermen.
In Rntland, VT, one hundred persons
have professed religion in the Rev. DR..
Aiken's church.
The revival in Cleveland, Ohio, con-
tinues with undated enthusiasm. Some
thing like thousand persons, of both
sexes and all ages, have been converted
within the past few weeks.
One of the pastors of Hartford, Conn,
says that within the last four or five
weeks more than one thousand persons