Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-04-15
Incidents i'm the Great Awaken.
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Incidents i'm the Great Awaken.
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A tavern keeper in Bath, Maine, ha.
converted his bar room into place fol
holding prayer meetings.
At the Phillips Academy, Andover, 4s
students are numbered among the converts
A club of in6dels in Andover, recent,
introduced the Bible into their meetings
and the study of it led to the conversion d
six or seven.
One of the three profane and dissoiute
young men in Boston was converted at a
prayer meeting, and going home to the
hotel where he boarded, found bis associ-
ates engaged in d-playing; he immedi-
ately addressed them on the subject of re-
igion, and the three now attend prayer
meetings together and appear to be alike
interested in personal religion.
At Hampton, N. H., the revival has set
tied an old and bitterly contested law suit,
which had alienated many families so that
they were not on speaking terms. The
principal parties were converted and recon
ciled, and s.what the law could not do, in
that it was weak through the 1esh," has
been summarily accomplished by the gos-
pei.
In the female seminary at Oxford, Ohio,
forty young ladies have recently professed
conversion. When the term closed, last
week, more than two-thirds of all who COM
menced the year non-professors, left rejoic-
ing in Christian hope.
The converted actor, Mr.. Fuller, only
seventeen years old, who is called the Mis-
souri Spurgeon, is producing great sensa
tion in that State. Wherever he goes
crowds shrong his meetings, and hundreds
are apparently converted by his preaching.
lawful" Gardner, the converted prize
fighter gave an account Of his conversion
lately, from which we make an extract:
81 was riding along, singing hymn,
and in an instant l felt as though l was
blessed. 1 am sure l gave up my soul q
body. The first thing knew God spoke
peace to my soul. 1t came like shot
it came like lightning, when l was not an
ticipating ii, and the first thing said, Clio
ry! God blessed me-" Ny friend said he
knew it; he felt the shock too. We rode
against stone fence two or three times,
and came near tumbling on the ground
The change was surprising; the trees look
ed as if they had been blessed; everything
appeared to have been blessed, even the
horse and wagon. l felt strong. l could
almost fly. Glory to God, this religion is
good The Lord has blessed me ever since.
Ny faith in him grows stronger every day.
l would face all the people that God ever
put on the earth, and tell them all am
bound for heaven.
Another prize fighter called "Boss" Har-
rington an old man attended prayer meet
ing in New York, and, as the account says,
"he plofessed justification by faith before
the meeting closed and arose in his place
and said, 81 have fought man all my life !;
the rest of it | will fgt for Jesus"
The original uncle "Uncle Tom" attend
ed prayer meeting in Boston. His real
name is Benson. He didn't know what he
could say to make the meeting interesting,
"but," said he, ''the greatest thing | can
say is that know am saved. Forty
seven years ago, l was saved while l was
in chains and slavery. I dragged around
a slave body. but l was free in Christ Je-
sus. fused to hate my master, and sought
to destroy him, but after | was converted
| prayed for him. He tl:cn stated that
Providence had given him a name that
was dear TO them all-Uncle Tom. His
remarks made the tears run from many an
eye. As he closed Father Cleveland shook
him by the hand, and in the name of all
present, welcomed him, and said all fellow
shipped with him.
At Union Prayer Meeting at Colum-
bus-says the Journal-Ex-Lieut., Gov.
Ford, remarked that when he first yielded
his heart to Christ be felt inclined to keep
the matter to himself and to the circle of
personal friends, but his conversion being
announced in the papers he deemed that
as a notice served upon him that it was
his duty TO publicly bear testimony for
Christ. Mr.. Ford's manner was earnest,
subdued and humble, and tears of hundreds
attested the sympathy of his hearers.
In Mansfield o., nearly the whole Bar
have attached themselves to the different
churches.
RThe Episcopal papers are filled with
accounts of the universal observances of
Lent and Passion Week. We copy the
following from the Church Journal.
During the past week, or rather less
than a week-from the morning of We'd
nesday in Holy Week to the morning Of
Easter Tuesday-the Bishop of New York
confirmed no less than flee hundred and
ft,eo, ,,ereone-a number we believe nm