New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-01
PRAYER MEETING OF THE YOUNG MEMS
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.


c,nized by the Young Mems Christian As-ocrion,
was held last evening" between the hours of aud 10
o'clock al the ROOMS Of the Association, in the New
Yo,k University. The object of fixing the hour of
meeting 80 late Ia the evening is to enable clerks en-
ployed in retail stores to be present and participate in
the devotional exercises. Trey will be continued
every evening at the same hour, Sundays excepted
.air proportion of those in attendance youths Of
from foulteen to estteen years. The Dee.iog was
charsct. rzed by appropriate sOleninity throughout
Young member of shout 81 years of age led the
meeting
The exercises were commenced BY singing the
"Jesus lever ofny soul,
Lex me to thy Doe m fly; ,
While the pillows resr lne roll,
While the tempest still is high"
The leader then offered prayer, in which he repre-
sented their spiritual unworhiness and the need tney
had that God would pour down hssprt to arouse their
zeal in behalf of their salvao and thai Of Others
AT the conclusion % the prayer the leader read the
Sd chapter Of Proverbs.
This was followed bys hymn
Salvation, the joyful sound,
IT'S ples,u-e to our ears,
A sovereign balm for every wound,
cordial for our fears
The leader sad he desired TO call the attention of the
meeting to gle passage: Happy is the man who
"fndeth wisdom and getteth understanding What
was wisdom1 Was he wise who knew not God, but
who was rushing headoDs into destruoion and waen
he knew that momen, hence he might find that he
was launched into eeirit7? They should bear in mind
what was required for them to do. To believe tLst
Jesus Christ came to sinners, and to have faith in
His mediation, and square their life with His teach
ngs Them if national reverses csme upon thein they
were vet sure of Gods favor in ete nifty, which was the
highest boon man could covet.
member inquired if there were persons pre- Ient out
of Christ If So they thOuld speak, or if they did not,
God already knew their answer. He had been speak
ing thin a few days with young men identife I with
Universaist bodies and who believed that Christ was
only good man. But he had induced them to &C
knowledge that there was possibility they were in
error This was q concession, and It was 8 concession
which they as ,angeical Christians would not make
But his remarks in some OF these cases, ne
was satisfied were not without good effect
bu. time alone would 81 ow. Those present
knew thst there was heaven and hell. Be
tween the two they must choose. Those wno had
elected were but few months years in advance OF
those present, who had not yet made peace with their
Maker and they would give them the results OF Their
experience and show to them how they had exricated
themselves from the difficulties that beset them 10 their
efforts to achieve the plane WDcn, vhen tuey Passeo
from it, would pass into eternal life.
Another member said that they were living amid
spiritual awakening, where it was easier for sinners to
accept Jesus than to resist the Spirit OF God He al
uded to the apathy of man at such time as this The
sight of dying sinner was one that cold not bus
awaken the highest zeal in to work for the salvation
of sinners OF the unconverted he would ask if they
were not converted during this revival, would they
ever be Was there one sinner present who was not
convinced that the Spirit Of God had been striving
with him uing this great revival, and if they were
hot converted many would have felt its workings for
the last time.
prayer was then offered by member, after which
hymn was sung:
40 Thou who he,est when sinners cry,
Though all my crimes before Thee lie,
Behold then with snsry loot,
Blu. blot their memory nom thy oook,
youpg man who stated that he was stranger,
gave his experience. Five years since he had entered
bis closet and had given himself to God, and had rea'
son to believe that he had been accepted This plin
be would avise others to adopt and he believed that
they would experience the joys Of the birth Of the
Spirit, as he had experienced them.
The exercises were concluded with prayer.