Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-03-29
DAILY ACCOUNT ov rmn REVIVAL
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DAILY ACCOUNT or TMR REVIVAL
MEETINGS.
The meetings during the past week have
continued with undated and Increasing inter
est On Saturday afternoon aiargc delegation
Of ladies and gentlemen went through the
deep mud TO the havbor, and with Mr.. Wells,
held service In the school house. There ives
good attendance, and 10 h said that about "a
arose expressing their desire TO be remembered
in the prayers Of Christians.
On Sabbath day tho usual morning services
were held Ia the different churches, and large
congregations were present In the afternoon
the cbildren's meeting was held In the Meth.
odlst church. About 900 children and young
people were present, and Mr.. Wells held them
together two hours, holding the attention Of
the youngest by sermon an hour and . half
long His text was 10 Matt 1s, II, "For the
Son Of man came TO save that which Is lost"
His first thought was that man Is lost His
second was that we need @ new heart. His
third was that II is easier for children to be.
come Christians than others. His sermon was
filed with incidents OF thrilling interest, and
closed with a simple but effective narrative Of
the last scenes In Christs suferings and death.
There Is no doubt but that many young minds
were deeply impressed by the story Of the
Gross. A little three year old said he talked
about being lost" aud It was the remark of
an old teacher that he never heard the chap
ter in Isaiah read and explained In so interest
ing manner.
On Sabbath evening large congregation
assembled In the same house to listen TO the
sermon on "The handwriting on the wall"
II has been estimated that over Mae hundred
people were present The sermon was a
graphic description of the profane orgies OF
Belshazzar's drunken Feast aud throughout
the description was of thrilling interest. The
application was to the effect that sin hardeps
the heart, and there is a point beyond which
IL man goes the judgment of God must fall,
and the warning to scoffers and blasphemers
in conclusion WAS made forcible by the narra-
ton of two or three remarkable cases of God 4
Judgments.
On Monday morning q short service was
held in the Congregational church. On Mon
day evening, the sermon on the Settles Of the
plain" or the danger Of lingering longer in sin
was in several respects the most symetrcal
and complete Of any that has been delivered
The illustrations in the sermon were very
fine the sinking of Sodom, the fable of the
dragon who deceived by the truth but saying
slime enough yet" and who built the monu.
ment with the epitaph tomorrow" &c, and
the dream of the man who saved the train o
cars by giving the warning of the broken cul-
vert, these with the description of the rock
overhangiug the cliff where as boy he hat
played so many hours, forcibly illustrated III,
thought that the warning of danger needs tt
be promptly needed
On Tuesday morning Mr.. Wells preached or
the text "Be ye strong, quit ye like men," ant
addressed Christians on the importance of be
ing bold, earnest and sincere in the work o
the Lord. .,.-,.,.-
On Tuesday evening the sermon on thu
Judgement closed with the pathetic descrip
ton Of the partings which must take place a
the judgment bar, aud the remarks at the sec
ond meeting ON what constituted conversion
contained a clear and thorough analysis o
the processes of the mind in the exercise O
repentance.
On Wednesday the praise meeting was large
ly attended. About 1l0 persons took part in
the exercises, classified according to their ages
10 of them being between the ages of 20 apG
25; IS being between 80 aud 40 years 81 be
longing to the first generation under 35, As il
the End, and only $ over 65 years of age.qs
On Wednesday evening an intensely inter
esting meeting was occupied by the delegation
| from Cleveland. aud Norwalk. Mr.. Stage
narrated his experience in thrilling an,
feeling manner, telling how long he had con
tinued in course Of vice, an 4 the sorrow tina
he afterwards had. The death bed of hi
mother was the place where his hardness hat
exhibited itself and where his sorrows an
conviction. went back and only Jesus coul,
| take away the burden of guilt.
! Mrs. Bolton narrated also the vow which sh
had made over the dead body of her ow
| mother that she would do all that was possbl
to bring Others to the Saviour, and at th
same time narrated several affecting inciden;
| of children who were converted and were tn
means Of bringing mauy others with then
Mrs Price in very beautiful and chast
manner then addressed the audience in strai
that might well, be called a rhapsody. IL
probable that the audience never heard th
story OF Chrsts discourse to the disciples, All
his last prayer, and his agony, and his ascer
of the hill Of Calvary, and his last days, in
more thrilling and brautiful way than th
lovely lady told it,, Mr., Bolton then followe
aud after a most interesting address. told til
story ct the disnherited child, so touching
that the whole audience were fairly melte
lO wn and nearly avarv one left in t.,urs