Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-25
The Religious Revivals.

Our Northern exchanges continue to report In
creased interest in the religious meetings OF New
York and its vicinity.
Mr.. Burton's old Chambers-street Theatre has
been leased for the purpose of holding religious
meetings therein, the first of which, q prayer
meeting, was to be held On the 18th, under the
direction of the Rev. T. L. Cuyler. The public
are invited, without distinction of rank or sect, to
attend. These meetings are to be continued daily,
till further notice.
SouTu BRooKLYN.-The Union Prayer Meeting
continues to grow in interest, and attracts very
general attention. On Monday evening, the two
large rooms in the rear Of the Strong Place Baptist
Church were well filled by audiences deeply i'm
bued with the prevalent feeling. The main meet
ing was presided over by A. F. Roberts, and was
participated in by o considerable number both Of
the local clergy and laity. The prayers of this
congregation were sought by parents for children,
and in return a son asked prayers for a mother,
that she might be brought within the folds of say
ing grace. Two venerable grey. headed old gen.
tlemen followed each otherin prayer, and as both,
with tremulous voices and subdued feeling, asked
that this harvest time might not pass without
proving a rich blessing to t e youth of the neigh
borhood, q very deep solemnity prevailed the
meeting.
The Rev. DR.. Spencer said that his own congre-
cation indicted that these meetings had already
resulted in much good. He had just left the bed
side of a young man, whose body he feared would
only find relief in the grave--but who thus stand
ing on the verge of life, rejoiced in n new-found
salvation. He knew where he was" and happy
would it be, if all, when thus about TO test their
realities of the future, could with equal fuith, de-
termine where they were.
REVIVAL IN A PRINTING OrfIcE.-Prayer-meet-
ings have been held daily at one of the large print
ing Offices in New York since the 9th of March
with increasing interest. At the commencement
of the meetings there were but four or five con-
verts, with very few participants, and now the
number ranges as high as twelve or FOURTEEN
The interest manifested at those meetings is very
great. One of the recent converts says: What
are We to expect when printing offices are CONVEX
ted into religious chapels? tits, as far as my
knowledge extends. unprecedented in the history
Of any country, and will, no doubt, astonish many
a reader" As the meetings are held between the
hours of - and 9 o'clock, some of the men 60
without their dinner for the sake of attending
them.
HuBoKEy.-There is considerable religious in.
terest in IIoboken. A weekly Union Prayer Meet
ing is held from church to church, and a general
attendance of protesting Christians at the meet
ings gives evidence Of n growing religious feeling
in the community. In the Baptist Church, under
the pastoral care of Rev. Mr.. Patton, there is a
very powerful revival in progress. Meetings are
held in the church every evening, and q large
number have p~rofessrd conviction.
REVIVAL IN PEEKsKILL.-ln Peekskil there is
au extraordinary religious interest. In the Rev,
Mr.. Hawley's church New School Presbyterian)
there have been daily meetings for the last three
weeks. There have been some fifty hopeful con-
version. The work still goes on. Firemen,
fuuudery men, classes not often reached at such
seasons, are being, in large numbers, converted
The Methodist Church is very largely blessed
The work is pcrvading and powerful.
ALBANIA Union Prayer Meeting was COM
menced on Monday, the 9th inst, in the lecture
room of the North Pearl street Baptist Church.
The next day it was necessary to n Ijourn to the
church, and before the week closed both the lee.
ture. room and church were crowded to overflow
ing, aud the work is continuing with increasing
interest. The exercise and interest are similar to
what is reported in New York and other places
Some laymen preside ut each meeting. Ministers
rs well as laymen attend, intersper>ing the exer-
cises with remarks and exhortations. The fol-
owing ministers are sustaining the meetings: Drs.
Wyckotf and Rodgers Dutch Reformed), WEIGH,
Hague, and Magoun, (Baptist), Sprague, Holly,
and Seelye, (Presbyterian), Palme (Congrega-
tionaI), Morrow associate Presbyterian, Method
list ministers, Bethel chaplain, City missionaries
and others. Another similar meeting Is held, at