St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-16
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RELIGIOUS.

New YoRK--It is not necessary {,
say, remarks the Observer, from week
to week that the revival is advancing
1t is acknowledged on all hands. From
the moment it was resolved upon tt
make our prayer meetings permanent
regardless of the exodus to the coun
try of great numbers, God honorcC
those who honorcd him, and the revi
val spirit has been rising from that
hour. Our places Of prayer are crowd
ed day after day--a most intense feel
ing is manifest. There are no human
contrivances for keeping up these
meetings. Never were they so much
ignored as now, or felt to be so need
less and worthless. The means is
simply prayer.
BALrIMoRE. Those who are return.
ing from summer resorts in the coun.
try, re-appcar in their places in the
morning prayer meetings.
IRELAND.-A young man from Amer,
ica was requested to give a public &C.
count recently of the revival in the
United States. 1000 persons Assem-.
bled to hear it. Returning from the
place Of meeting twelve prayer meet,
ings were passed, all in open air.
BosroN.--The attendance upon church.
es during the warm weather has been
very large. Old South morning prayer
meetings and Young Mems evening
meetings g o'clock p. NJ. continued
with little abatement of interest. Fa.
thcr Mason's noon meeting in North
street is the scene of conversions
every week. 1t is believed that rcvi.
val will continue, and in the fall, when
the citizens return, greatly increase.
During few weeks past, indeed, the
fervor of the morning and noon meet
ings has considerably augmented
JEws.-Many of the most interest
ing incidents of the revival of 1858
have been connected with the rclig-
ious experience of converted Jews.
Twcnty-thrce of these cases in the city
of New York alone have been emu
mcrated by New York correspond
cnt of the Baltimore True Union. A
similar state of things is reported
among the Jews Of Philadelphia, some
Of whom have been converted, and
numbers have called on their mission
ary, Rev. Mr.. Bonhamme, for Christian
instruction.
Among recent graduates from An
dover Theological Seminary is WIN.
A. McGurley, Esq, of Muscatine,
Iowa.
If the revival of religion which
has been passing over our land does
not promote practical righteousness,
does not lead to sympathy with the
oppressed, to temperance, honesty and
charity, to deeds Of love and kindness
in all the relations of life so far as its
influence reaches, then we pronounce
the revival hollow and spurious. >
Ne,o Englamder.
The good fruits of the revival in
Amherst College are daily apparent in
the morality, dccorum and devotion of
the students, as well as in certain
affectionatcness towards the teachers,
never before exhibited. "Not an in
stance of apostacy." The good infu,
ence still continues. New cases of
conversion this term. Only some fit:
teen students in all who have not be-
come Christians, it is thought.
New York AND IowA.-At the Full.
ton street meeting in New York, a
few days ago, the following incident
was related An Ohio man and II
young man from Iowa were going to
New York in the cars together. The
former invited the latter to the Fulton
street meeting. He went, put in a
request for prayers, and in eight days
was on his way home to one of the
southern counties in Iowa a converted
young man. His home was in vii
lage of 900 people, with no church
no minister. He opened a prayer
meeting. in his own room, had to move
to school-house shortly, because the
room was too small then had to get
a larger place as the school-room be
came too small. A revival followed
and two churches were organized AZ
the result of that young mans noon
day meeting.
A man travelling by railroad from
Springfield, Mass, to Albany, n. Y.
was awakened by rejecting on his
dependence upon God in his journey
up the inclined planes.
MErHoplsTs IN IowA.--At the recent
meeting of the North Iowa Conference
held at Lyons, Bishop Morris stateG
that in 1889 the first p. Z. for thi:
State was appointed that in ls4O il
was divided into two districts, and il
lS44 it was first formed into a Confer
ence with seventeen members. Now
in nineteen years, the State has tive
Conferences, well supplied with minis
tcrs. with members numbered by
thousands.
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