The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-13
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ture truths.
Rev. Geo. l.. Curtis, Of the South
eastern Indiana Conference, has en-
tered upon his labors as agent of the
Indiana Asbury University, and is
meeting with encouraging success.
At the recent session of the Phila-
delphia Conference, Immediately after
the opening services, little boy and
girl passed through the aisles dis
tributing circulars requesting the
ministers to abstain from the use of
tobacco, and thus set the children a
good example.
A District Ministerial Conference
and Sunday School Convention, for
the Rockport District. will be held at
Rockport on the 4th of June.
Alta recent preachers meeting for
the Mitchell District, over i 300 ac-
cessions to the churches within the
bounds of the District were reported.
More than 400 have been converted
in the Washington Circuit. e9aj Cd
The conversions and accessions
during the Winter OF Laurel Circuit,
Cincinnati Conference, have been
over 240 At Laurel the number was
"a; at Concord, go 60, Bethel, So; at
other points over so. sooaue a 3
The following paragraph we find in
the Western Christian Advocate, in
reference to Trinity Church = ~
During the. present year." writes
Rev. G. N. Sims, I'VE have had about
80 conversions. Perfect harmony
prevails throughout the membership.
We have eight classes, all we'll at
tended, and good prayer meetings
The Sabbath School averages about
300. The teachers meet each Monday
night to prepare the lesson for the
coming Sabbath. All our teachers
are professors of religion. The Sab
bath congregations are quite large.
Our social Church meetings, held
once in two weeks in the Church par
lors, are decidedly successful. The
proceeds are over hundred dollars
each meeting lately. Church finances
are in perfect condition. All in all,
we are happy family. = = gr;fr rrs6
Decatur Station is enjoying one of
the most remarkable revivals of reli-
gion that has occurred in the Illinois
Conference, if not in the State. Up
to the present writing over four hum
dred conversions have taken place.
A remarkable revival is reported
from the Scilly Islands, group of
islands about thirty miles off the
southwest coast of England. The
movemeatappearst to have commenced
with the efforts of some jealous prayer
leaders, whose visits to sick persons
in the awakening of others.
The MONDAY prayer meeting in the
First Methodist Church, Pittsb urgh,
(Rev. A. Clarke's,) crowds the
audience-room and galleries every
day, rain or shine. The average at
tendance is about one thousand. Two
or three other daily prayer meetings
at the same hour have been estab-
lished in other parts of the city, and
all are largely attended. The revival
feeling in that city is equal to that of
1857. Large numbers are being added
to the churches Of all denominations.
The minutes of the Georgia Annual
Conference of the M. E. Church,
South, show that in the bounds of
that Conference there are fUe hundred
and taDenty- seuen white, and eighteen
eolored preachers. There are ffty-
one thousand taco hundred and nine
teen white, and fourteen thousand nine
hundred and Ninety three colored
members. There were -four hundred
and siaty-tour Sabbath Schools, with
t,centy thousand Screen hundred and
ninety eight white, and too thousand
eight hundred and fifty eight tcolored
children. aldw etav - 80 c.a