The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-04-22

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ENCOURAGEMENT FOR CHRISTIAN WORKERS.
The campaign between the enemies Of sin and
those Of righteousness, which has been waged
with more or less success in all parts Of our
country and with very marked and signal success
In particular localities during the last four
months, Il now quoting down preparatory TO
the siege being raised by the Christian army
still ~encamped around the citadels Of Satan. An
observation Of the fields Of battle will give US an
intelligent appreciation of the ferceness of the
conflict and the number Of the Lords slain and
wounded. Beginning with our own city and
State. we find in addition to the hundreds pre-
viously reported In Forty-second street Baptist
church, s, and in other Baptist churches Of the
city and vicinity, $50 at Tottenville, 5. l.,
Baptist church; at Peekskill, Rondout and
Roughkeepsie, 300 more: at 1ioga Centre.
Petersburg, Flat Brook, Morris, Saltwater.
Olean, Troy. Mottville, Hamlin, Perinton and
Fort Ann Village the Baptists have CLEANED 3I9.
In Armenia, White Plains, Elmira, Pine Plains,
Malone, Allegany, Port Jeryis, Rome and South
ampton, L. l., the Presbyterians have captured
587. The MethOdlsts, in some places cooper
ating with Presbyterians, Baptists and Congre-
gationalists, and in some battling independently,
have come off as we'll as they, if not a little bet
ter in some places. For instance, at one church
IN Rochester,, Alexander street, 100, and at Spout
Brook 1875; at GAINESVILLE, 10; at South Sodus,
ll2; Valley Falls, 80; Millville, $50; Fiskhill,
on the Hudson, AZ; Shutdown. L. l., IT'S.
IheSt uguIts anu places Will indicate now wide
spread has been the revival spirit Throughout this
State and how large the numbers that have been
gathered into the churches. In one Methodist
Episcopal church alone in Poughkeepsie over 500
have united, and in Port Jervis over 700 have
Joined the Methodist churches. But these and
many others have been reported heretofore, and
need not be repeated here. But taking only
those figures above. and without including the
last two, we have here an army of 1856 converts
CLEANED from our exchanges in one week and
gathered into the Church of Christ in this State
alone.
IN NEW JERSEY AND
like results are noticed. The Methodists along
the line of the Morris and Essex Railroad, New
Jersey, and in some few stations adjacent TO the
Southern Railroad, have gathered in 1,575 souls,
the Baptists 2O9 and the Presbyterians 315. In
pennsylvania the results have been equally re-
markable according to our exchanges. The
Methodists gathered in 1888, the Presbyterians
$40 and the Baptists $50. In the New England
States, including Yale College, where a revival
prevails among the students, the Congregations
allsts have gathered into their churches 1877, the
235, the Baptists 100 and the Pres
%nesota, California, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee,
Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and Mary
land the statistics are not SO complete, but the
have not been idle, as the results show.
In Virginia alone the Baptists gleaned.1 ,082 con-
Terts, the Methodists 1873 and the Presbyterians
and in the other States named the Baptists
in 357, the Methodists 800 and the
Presbyterians 81. A remarkable revival pre-
vailed in Rushville, ILL.,, for several weeks. 1t
has quieted down, now, however. 1t began by a
OF II persons, members of a holiness
dropping down there unasked and
inannounced. BY previous agreement, after
topping Oft the platform at the station, they
ilVlded into companies of twos and threes and
tarted out through the village conversing with
very person, old or young, they met in the
trpetS on tho Gubianf of tbair parSOpoJ so1-ot;u-
nd where a willingness was shown, knelt down
nd prayed with them. They also visited the
welllngs and business places of every inhabitant
1 the place, talked, sang and prayed with them,
nd invited them to attend a meeting to be held
t night in the schoolhouse near by. Such earn
stness arrested general attention, and a few
anne to the first meeting. The second day wit
essed a repetition of the labors of the first, and
n the second night the schoolhouse was crowded.
religious awe seemed suddenly to take possess
on OF the hearts of the people, and from that
me onward the interest increased until 100 I
were converted. And these statistics rep I
scented but '
1.-THE OF THE CONVERSIONS Z
lat have taken place in the localities indicated, !;
Delt they loot up an aggregate of II AS con- Z
'rts gathered into the church within probably :.
70 or three weeks. If during the three mouths y
which the churches and pastors and evangel- n
is were most active an average of this number =
ere saved, the grand result would be not far "
pm a quarter of a million. And at the same :,
ne ~revivals have existed in neighborhoods and y
nong churches that make no returns of numbers. T.
has been scarcely a college or seminary in IL
e land that has not had a religious awakening 9
long the students. In Richmond College, Vir1 Il
out of 100 students, ninety-seven were 6
And doubtless other institutions of >
lrnlng could present as good a record. These ;"
results that the Christians of America can q
ank God for in the beginning of this centen- Y
year, when wickedness seems to sit in high =,
and the love of many heretofore deemed -
thful wakes cold and faith in men is below par. ~
Oh results indicate that the world is not gov ~
led by protoplastic moners nor by their illogi- y
scientific manufacturers. The Lord reigneth;