The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-02-27
RELIGIOUS INTELLIaENoE.


Az uNusraL scFNE--The New York cor
respondent oil the Boston Journal says the
New York churches quite geueraIIy arc en-
juying o. season Of religious awakening that r.
unusual The daily prayer meeting Ia the
Old North Dutch Church has oulgrown the
place Of IN origin, III, large lecture room
is crowded 10 rcplolion, The SUNDAY School
room has been opened, and that also is filled
% Overlooking, Aud The week tho room it
the third story has been thrown open, and
that also IL crowded and sometimes the voice
Of swelling praise can be heard from many
hundred voices all ~ the same time, in dihe-
rent tunes and hymns la each room but iu
no respect disoordant The meeting 10 pccu-
liar one A large number Of lho pcuolis who
attend IL are young
The rule New York n 20 allow clerks and
others 10 have from II 20 ! O'Clock Tor r(iresh,
ments, and his hour isnlloued by these yhuhg
men to this daily ypuyer meeting, They come
with bank books In their hands-pene,ls be-
/ hind the cnr-memomndum books Just peep
| ing out Of their pockets and other marks Of
trade about them, and join heartily in the SER
vice, Carmen and wagon men drive up their
teams 10 the curbslouc in their irucks,
with the marks Of their employ ON them come
into the meeting join hcau,Iyiu the song Of
praisc-kucel down and pray and then pass
out, jump ON their teams, and ddyo of 70
their work. All classes arc here. Some
times clergyman leads the meeting, and
sometimes q hymun, Among the audience
now about h0y ladies may be seen. ThcRst
month not one was in the house, and tEGSing,
! ing was wholly by the mcr. But one by one
! the ladies dropped ia, and nov a part Of the
house is set apart for them and their voices
blend with and soften the harshcr voices Of
their brethren, The merchant from his store.
the mechanic from his shop, the carman from
his cart, the clcrl, from his desk, the lad from
his crrand the lawyer from his brcf-all may
he seen In this place Of daily prayer
PERSECUTION Is MApAGAsc,R.-Thc latest
intelligence from this l-goycrucd aud miser-
ably oppressed island il cmincutly sad and
disheartcning, A persecution followed the
expulsion ofthc Frcnchmcn in July last, which
has proved to be uneommonly severe, Thir-
| teen Christians have been put TO death more
than fifty have been subjected o. the ordeal
of the "tauguca" poison watcr), with fatal
results in the cases of eight more than 6ny
have been bound ia chains, two having died +.
and many others are reduced 90 slavery
/ There seems to 'bc no hope therefore, that
. those who have embraced the doctrines ofthc
/ Bible will bc tolerated during the reign ofthc
/ present Queen, Whether her son will escape
a dcathoG violence, ~ he Is known t. bc friend
/ ly to "thc new way"i, quite doubtful.
/ LARGE COLLECTION MssloNs.-At the
/ Church of the Ascension, New York, on Sun
( day the / 7th inst, Ste6uWaS collected for the
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society Of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Nor
thcrn States, after a sermon by the Rector
the Rev. DR.. Bcdcll. This amount exceeded
I 10y one hundred dollars that OF last wear Iur
7 the same object. Two hundred dollars more
was subsequently sen, in, VIII ch swcllcd the
sum TO Sli00
~ \ correspondent informs us that there
is quite an improved state ofrclignus feeling
in Franklin and Berkshire, where Brothers
Elkns and Prouty have been laboring very
successfully.
Some fifty from the youth to the man Of
seventy five, have made a profession Of rclig-
on,"-St .Iib0uS Messenger.