Litchfield enquirer., 1858-02-11
Religious Intelligence.

An increased soleplnity has been observed for, many weeks in the religious meetings of the various churches in this village; and many persons spo ken of as considering the great question of personal religion.
 On Sunday last, four persons were received into the church in Bradleyvilfe receiving baptism by inn mersion.
 The Christian Secretary reports revivals in the Baptist churches in Putnam, Sutheld, Danbury and Melideu.
 The Independent gives the following account of T great revival in the Baptist Mariners Church, New York: | Last Sabbath evening sixteen, and on tke Sabbath evening previous eighteen, converts were baptized In all forty-two have thus publicly put Christ. and seventy have given evidence of conversion, many of whom were sealren. Sailors are convicted, and in some inst2lces converted, st sea, and after wards come here and tell Hhat God has done for their souls For several Sabbath evenings past the spacious chapel has been crowded, and many have left for the want of seats.
 | A collection, amounting to s4 400 was taken up on Sunday last in the Church of the Ascension New York.
 Mir Charles B. Ball, graduate of the East Windsor Institute, on the Doth ordained as pas tor of the Congregational Church in Wilton Ser mon by Prof. Lawrence of East Windsor Mayor Tiaman of New York is making efforts to have the Sabbath better observed in that city He has ordered policeman to visit all places where concerts are given on Sunday, which from their ma ture and the dlsordery practices accompanying them all annoyance to quiet, peaceable people in the neighborhood, and injurious to pnblic morals and to inform the pr"peors that if they do not stop the cause of mplaint. they will be proceeded against legally The movement is specially directed against places where there noisy brass bai1ds and here | target shooting, billiard playing, and other games are carried on, in violation of the Sunday ordinance
 At Detroit, Mich, last Sunday, the clergyman of all denominations attended the funeral uf Ihe Rev. Mir. McEiroy, the first Protestant minister ever buried in that city, and the Catholic bishop Metros ky entered the pulpit with his Protestant brethren and read tEu scripture lesson.
 -Rey. H. Luther, in rendering to the South ern Board of Domestic Missions his resignation as missionary in Kansas significantly remarks: | ' In taking this step I am induced by a variety of motives which it is impossible to resist without doing violence to my sense of duty, dnd injury to
 the Board The territory. already in part occupied
 by the Northern Board will, in all probability, be come generally It is properly the field of that Board and cannot, in conscience call upon o,,. board tor funds to support one inA section where
 the majority have no sympathy with our religious institutions, and where there is so much ground to
 be occupied in states naturally and politically dtsi
 mated IS the field for Southern Christians can for
 tie present accomplish for the cause in Missor
 IT, and as opportunities present themselves, I csn effect more in the territory minister dsconnect- ed with any Board.''
 Among the Congregational churches which are now enjoying revival, are the two churches in
 Danbury, the church in Bethel the first and second churches in Greenwich, the church in Strattord and the church in South Nurwalk.
 There is considerable interest in the churches of Worcester, Mass The morning prayer meet ing crowds one of the churches, and wi h some the feeling is strong that the confines of general and powerful revival One or two cases of conversion of confirmed Universalists quite re- nlarkable. Rev S. Leader, who has preached at Bakcrvle for the last four years, expects to leave that place the lst of April, for East Douglas, Mass. Rev. Mir. Perrin, late of Goshen has been in- stalled pastor the First Congregational Church in New Britain