New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-01

Tom the sur sy Sorsh. son the wde Blooming West
CT perhaps froa the old visd acrd beycnd tins ofos'
Atlantic.
I'VE solicit your eompssionslsp jus. q. y-u arr,
We use cantns phrase In inviting you 10 our hess
qua.,es. We simply AJAX the rless Of visit ire q
you, TIA: your own friendships may be multiplied, so
ihat you may End the door 70 new szioymen.s."
circular letter to employers ha, ~ been dstribut
ed. One hundred thousand copies Of the former and
ten thousand Of the latter in course OF distribution
by the members OF the As.ocia,iea.
CONVERSIONS AMONG srAspNy.
gres; revival has been in progress a. the bs.
ginning Of as. December in the Baptiss Mariners
Church. in Cherry street Religious scrv,A ~ have
been held for some tins every evening and n any ct
tie meetings have been densely crowded TT, audi
nee is composed to lara. extent OF sea1en wa sSe
induced to attend while they remain in port. On tae
last Sinisy evening in Jauusy eighteen percns ~ ere
baptized and the succeeding Sunday sixteen cha 3
On bot, occaeions the chapel was crowded b it, al
most capacity. Since these additions a s.iB large
number OF conversions have Been reported sid TIE.
work is st.N continuing.
! We have learned that one of the officers OF sae
'CDi.ed S,stes figa,e Congress, while on orurSe to
tie Levant was converted in ts identical Garden OF
Gethsemsne, The chaplain of TIE vessel, the Ret.
Mr.. Noble Presbyterian minister, states that quite s.
number Of the crew OF the Congress have slso been
converted.
At the Sesmsns Chapel Methodist, of which the
Rcv. Dir. Corbh il pasor, over 80 converts have
lately been made Of which number with the exception
OF ak all were adults while thirty were above forty
wears of age. About onethird of the entire number
sp seafariug men. This church was in great pecunsry
difficulty when the edifcs purchased by the
Nethodists btu it Is now entirely out OF debt.
Religious meetings, and also temperance meeting,
have been for some weeks past held board OF the
United States fricate North Carolina. ~ Of the
former, fifty sailors came forward to be prayed for
THE EXTRA PRAYER MEETINGS.
The prayer meeting held every day at noon in the
Cousistory Rooms Of the Reformed Dutch Church IN
William street, near Fulton has become veil known
over the whole country. This meeting was begun in
October last and was first held weekly On Wednes-
days until became so largely attended that general
desire was expressed for dsily session The change
was then made, and after being publicly announced
single room was soon found insufficient TO sceommo'
date the great numbers that crowded into to particI
pate in the exercises. second room was then added
and sfte,ward third. All three are now not only
filed to their utmost capacity but would be still
more largely attended if there were sitting or
even standDg-room 10 10 offered 10 the multitude
On Saturday last more than 20s persons were com
PEELED to go away, unable 10 get place IN either OF
the rooms pacard is posted on the outer gate IN
yitipg persons to enter, though such an Invitation
seems longer necessary: Step in for hve minutes
"or longer as your time permits Inside notices are
hung on the walls, to the effect that prayers and
remarks should be brief in order to give all an OPP
portunity' and torbdding the introduction oh con
troyered points for the purpose OF preventing theo-
logical discussions These precautions are taken in
order to give much variety rs possible to the exer-
ces for is always objectionable to render crowded
meeting dull The frequenters Of this meeting come
from all classes in society, and invited as such,
without regard to their differences. Many clergymen
of the city churches, and many prominent lsymen IN
GLIDING merchants and gentlemen in the legal and med
ieal professions, seen there every day-as they
ought to be seen-side by side with the mechanic and
the day laborer, and the street beggsr. Dray-
men drive up their carts to the church, and. hching
their horses outside, 60 in with the crowd and tine
ladies' who sometimes have Christian hearts in spite
of uneLristan fashions, driven down from "up town
in their fine carriages also step in and mngle
with the same multitude. The exercises consist
about equally of prayers, remarks, and singing
OF course ii is mpracteable for so many to take part
in the speaking or the audible praying, but they all
Join in the singing with great zeal and emphasis. On
one occasion the volume Of sound heavy as to
dislodge from its place the wall the clock which
had been securely fastened supposed and bring
it crashing to the floor. II is not unequent, during
the continuance of the meeting, to see crowd OF per-
cons collected in the street in front Of the church to
listen to the ritstnrng hymns that sang inside
II is seldom that the DoxoOgy in long metre is ever
heard with such effect upon the mind as by persons
who lean the iron ratings on the outside to catch
the sound of the chorus 0fvOces within On Saturday
the venerable DIR. Lyman Beecher was present at the
meeting and made some remarks.
The PRAYER meeting now held in the Old Methodist
Church in John street ia similar to this. The attend
ance here is already found sufficient to crowd the
entire ground floor Of the building. Mary Methodist
people attend thu meeting in preference to the other
partly owing perhaps to their attachment to the old
church. which is the oldest Methodist Church in the
United States But the proceedings are characterized
with entire cathocity and freedom from sectaranism
A morning prayer meeting is held in DIR. Cheevers
Church from to 81 o'clock, which is attended by
members both of his own and of other churches and
BY persons who are members Of none.
An afternoon meeting ia held at the South Dutch
Church in Fifth avenue, the corner OF Twenty-nrst
street, from a. to 81 o'clock, which the families
Of the neighborhood cordially invited to attend
In the Forsy,h-street Methodist Church meeting is
held do ly at loon, an hour in length.
In the Baptist Church in Macdougal street, meet
ing is held in the forenoon from 81 to lOl o'clock.
The congregation of the Broadway Tabernacle bold
meeting in the Chapel OF the Home for the Friend
less, from to 81 o'clock every morning.
In DIR. Gordons Church, in the Seventh avenue,
morning meeting is held, beginning and ending a. the
same hour as the Tabernace's.
In the North Presbyterian Church (Dr. T.. T. Hal
feld'sl. in Ninth avenue near Thrty-hrst street,