Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-03-31
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Religious Reviyals.


Our secular as well as religious exchanges
rom the northern cities, have column aittr
column filed with accounts OF the unprcce-
dealcd feeling now pervading their religious
communities. The work is confined to no
section anil TO no particular denomination
all seem 20 he earnestly engaged in it. Dali
ly prayer meetings are held, attended in some
instances by thousands Of persons. In New
York, nearly all the churches are open from
~ o'clock, NJ, to l p NJ. The ministers pre-
81 le or lead in the exercises, which consists
Of prayer, singing and exhortation- Business
men and clerks, laborers and lawyers, leave
Their duties awhile, to attend the services
Ladies leave the parlor, or defer their shop
ping and so to the place of prayer, and stran-
gers, attracted by the crowd going in, turn
and walk in also. Even boys have places and
hours assigned for their meetings, and much
benefit have they derived Merchants leave
their stores, and brokers their counters, and
present themselves for an hour before alters
no. erected 10 s~eHsclcss Mammon. Nor is the
worship confined to churches-Old Burton
Theatre in Chambers st., is converted into a
house of prayer.
In Philadelphia, Jaynes' Hall in Chestnut
> streot, Is flied daily -on one OCCASION as
many as three thousand persons attended the
prayer meeting; and the work is becoming
general.
Similar meetings are being held in Boston,
Chicago, Baltimore, Washington and Rich
mond And even in Congress. a resolution
has been introduced for holding n prayer
IN ,etins ltly, 81 II; Were convenient to the
Capitol, so that the members may attend pre-
vious to the hour for the assembling of the
two Ito ,scs. In a word, a great and almost
universal REVEALS progressing, and thousands
Of persons arc daily seeking the means ofspir-
itual regeneration. The revival has spread
far and wide, until, from daily prayer meet
in5 in New York city, the great inquiry has
Union, and men of all classes and conditions,
with bendedk knee, seek that consolation which
a belief in the Divine faith alone can afford
As the f litor of the Wilmington Herald
observes-To the man of the world this
may appear only as another form of period
cal excitement but at the bottom of it may
always be found something beyond the ken
Of his shallow wisdom and the whole Chris
tian community may well pause and ask wha
it means. Here we see men, hardened in thu
depths of crime and vice, coming tremblingly
to the prayer meetings, resolving to menC
their ways and Ietd new lives. There is some
thing more than human at work upOn thei
natures and the skcptic may argue as h
pleases against Christianity, yet its truths ar
attested triumphantly to the world, when
through its influence, a wicked man is laugh
to restrain his passions, and becomes subdued
NoRTH CAROLINA REvIvALs.-In Charlott
the churches have been enjoying a graciou
revival for several weeks, and the gooC
work is still progressing.
In Wilmington, the Methodist churches TN
der the pastoral care of Rev. DIR. Deems ant
Rev. j. +. Mann and the Baptist church
Rev. Mr.. Pritchard, pastor and the Presby
terrain church, are all enjoying the graciou
visitations Of the revival spirit, and man
souls are converted.
In Raleigh daily prayer meetings are hel
alternately in the Presbyterian, Baptist an
Methodist churches. The houses are file
every day, and a deep solemnity and marke
interest evinced. May the interest continu
to increase, ard many precious souls be cor
verified to Christ.
In Fayetteville, we learn from the Presby
terrain, "a union prayer meeting is held dali
by the Methodist and Presbyterian congr
cations. The services are held in eac
Church alternately, with good attendance an
increasing interest
In Newborn, also, similar meetings al
held daily.