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<2 “CHILLICOTHE, (Our,) AUGUST 28, 1816.
y baptism; atid the glorinus work ‘is still
going on... In-Ellisburgh there have been about
| Methoilist Tract Society.
“riwonocy.
Poo bee a EB a a church: The work beainthere Lovtract from the Sixth Annual” Report of © > ~:
_) SRELIGIOUS TNTELLIGENCE, «92 sete oot an eeeie Ue the Méthotist Tract Society, in Shefildy
Po BES ee OETA 2 ther places.” In several places betwesn Cayu- (England). written: by Montgomery, tie, .
roo State of Religion in the ‘DLaptis gra aud Sevieca lakes. the mercy of the’ Saviour: ‘- Oeb ee ea S SR ERASER es
. ¢ ns of grace have their peculiar ad=) 0 .00-.
“Churches of the United States... has béen'slovifiéd. * More than, 200 were bap- All the mea ,
a Coe et tised in’ Ovid: The churches in Mudison Asso- vantages, and many. are adapted to peculiar cir-- :
Extracted frori the Second Annual Report ciation have enjoyed some of hg cisplays of diz -cumstaaces. The dissemination of religious tracts...
¢:.2, of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions > yins grace. "Vo. the: church in: Cazenovia 65_ is especially'so.~ ‘There are persons*who never. -
wen _ Jor, the United States... sin - have been added; in Baton 38; Homer 24, and read the word of God, who never attend publick ~~
-.. 7 Phe increase of. the -charch on : Pompey 24.°. Sherburne, Sangerfield,-and per-; worship, who, from. heedlessness,: prejudicé“or }.
the earth isa
source ef jos, not only to the saints in this world, “haps othecs in that quarter; have been mercifully hatred, concern. not ‘themselves. about the things
but to the angels ia heaven. - ‘Phe triumphs of the visited: “hy Delaware. ccunty, we may notice that belong to their peace. ~.A Tract is a missile “.
‘yo. » ress have been maltiplied the past year ina man-- Franklin, Meredith, and Roxbury,’ in‘the last of weapon, which the Spirit of God may direct'to ~~)
jo. | Rev caloulaled to ‘awaken the most devout aspi: whieh the triumphs of the Cross have been great: the conviction and conversion of. a sinner, unas-_-”<
} | oorations of gratitude‘aad praise, Very extensive In {Greene county, Lexington, ‘Hunter; ‘and -sailable: from ‘any. other qaarter. : It falls in the ~
and most happy, revivals have-been realized ‘in Windham have been: watered from ‘on high. way of-such’an one,—he would be ashamed to. *:
=" various parts uf our country, atid among varicus «More than’130 were baptised in Li2xington and. look at it umong his companions, but he is alone, ~
denominations of Christians: :Io Maine, show- -vicinity: the’ last. wiater... Greenville and ‘the’ and he has nothing else to do,—something in the:
"ers of divine‘mercy have been shed forth to. Wa. neighbouring towns iu the safne county have also title attracts his eye,—ils brevity tempts his indo-.: +.
ter and reviyethe vineyard of th: Lord.- ‘Toone. shared in the merey. ‘In the western bounds of*lencé,—he. begins to read it with: indifference,“
.«, church there have been added 75, to another 58, the Warwick Association, ihe work of God has -perhaps with repugnance, but his curiosity being
_ to another ’51,.to anvther 50, to another 112, to, been glorisucly displayéd, both ationg our own, excited, and feeling himself: gradually more and
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)2. prejudice and increasing seriousness-to the end,
“He has got through with it, but he-has not done’.
~ wih wth it > he lays it-out of his hand, bat he cannot
~ of Nobleborough thus writes—* We have had a, have been baptised the year past.
most blessed season with us the sumimec past. I~ <In a part of the Russell's Creek ss,
. Shave baptised 114 that. have ‘joined: our church, Ken. soniething <of-a- revival took pig
"and 24 that have joined the charch in, Jeflerson.;-course of last year. Lately a’ verisba
o> Thave baptised absut 70 of our youth. What-a has commenced in Nelson county!
wi precions sight it is to.seaso many in the bloom of-the following extract of acletier tet: aE
“ove life engaged in religion.” To several churches 6f, Vardeman, recently received.” [£2 thus writes :-
kroagh the invulnerable air, but it has pierced © ~
his heart, his understanding, his conscience, and
the. minutes of last year; between 20 and 39 were: of my first tour to Nelson.. ‘Il have since visited ed} the anguish of which ‘is: only inflamed by *
added. «In Alstead and Westmoreland, .N. HL \-thent again, and found the good work was going .vain arts to assuageit; for he shuns the recollec-..
and in several ‘places in Vermont, as at Caven--on is a most glorious manner... -I was with then: tion of the things that alarmed him,:the closer;
* dish, Brandon, Georgia, Orwell, St. Albans, and “nearly four weeks, and performed s circuit twice,” they haunt him ; ‘and the very attempt to forget -.
Swanton, the Holy Spirit has been shed abroad, ofabout seventy miles, and preached unwards of the words, indelibly fixes them in his remem::.
“and many sinners converted... 2.6000 0.0755 forty’ times, from my leaving home aatil my re- brance.’ In his distress he seeks pleasure where ~~
In Boston, Massachusetts, considerable addi. turn... ’Phe “congregations - were frequenily\ so formerly he found it, but he finds itno more ; he: :.
tions have, been made to the churches during the turge, even on week. days, that the , meeting. secks'rest/in unbelief and obduracy, but rest is no
_ year past.--In Attleborough and in Framinghain houses could not contain the: people. ~ "Phe mast more there; his’ peace. is. slain; the “world can’:
the work: has. been great." Elder. Nelson of the ‘sdlean elfect appeared ty attend the word. «My. never again be to_him ‘what it has been ;—-happi-’
" former, place has baptised as many.as G9 or 70 3. labours Were truly fatigaing, but D. trast notin: ness and repose he must’ possess in religion, or ~
“perhaps more. Also ia the westerm parts of the “vain. “1 baptised about 49 nersons on. profession renounce all prospect of either for ever. Then, .
- state, non confined to the Baptists, the influences :of theie faith in» Christ.c: Other’ brethren, have’ and ty: sha
of grace have abandantly prevailed®;.asin Had-: baptised some,” From préseuit prospects we havé. fdled- him, he.lays hold of the hope set before *
dey Amherst, Northampton, Westhampton, reason to hore that hundreds 1 b
Whately, Ware, -Suaderland, Williamstown;: yet to the churches. in that neighbourhoed’™*.°.” claims, “ What shall I dot Cs
Sheffield, Beeket, and. Sandisfizld. In. Paw- ©." In some parts of Virginia—pertiaps, too, in, answer is nigh ‘uate -bim ;—‘* Believe. in the
ucket, and in Providence, RL. the’ work ‘lias the Carolinas and Georgia—* mrey,. drops” have “Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt b
“been very powerful, and {he manifestations of. fallen upon the churches, prelusivéggh is hoped. does believe, and he is saved. :
re. mérey divinely. glorious.” Some. parts of Con- of a great rain of righteousness... os fo
“Colebrook sear 1€0 have been added tothe Bap- which the limits of this Report will allow only: in-the course of Providence, if.these small-but
tist church, and abont 80 to the Congregational, to be introduced... Amongst these may be vien-. effectual calls to repentance were universally and .
© Bartland, Norfolk, Canaan, and Norwalk, hive tioued the heavenly influences that have descend. abandantly ‘distributed. 7 We say “universally
fro shared in the bléssed work, besides ‘Salisba-. ed apon'several colieges and other seminaries of and abundantly,—because thougn afew Tracts,
ry and several other places. 0 0 00. 0. a learning." Who can but cherish thé -hope “that carefully scattered, may and must do good, yets.
New-York state’ las not been passed without’ from! the youth: who: have‘ been: sharers in the what canbe produced by supplies so dispropor- -
refreshings fiom the Lord atid these effustons of: blessed work, God_is about to raise up.a mulli- tioned to the wants of mankind, but here a blade
‘divine and saving Infueaces. + In Troy'a bk
1285 ;
-ed revival bas been experienced. In Greenwich, among the heathen, While ihe Christian world was-barren before, and where all is still barren :
“in Jay, and other places in that quarter, the goad’ 3s exerting itself:to send forth the. Gospel to tlie around : whereas ta-make the wilderness, and."
: work is sfatedto have been cansiderable.'"Elder ends of the earth, God is not leaving bis people ‘the solitary place to rejoice, and the desert to bloss<—
©. Oscnod-of Hendersongan the 26h March last,? Without a tstimony-of bis own faithlulness, that’ som like the, rose, we must, in our measure, Unie
> thus wrota—¢ Sined: the cfirst of. October -last,-“ the Liberal soul shall be made fat; and. he. tatethe bounty of cur heayenly. Father, who. |
“there Rave been 62 edded to this church, '52 of that wetereth'shall be watered alsa himself’ Causes the sun in his progress to shine on every
foes eis ”
another 39, and to another 33. . Bilder Pilsbury. denomination and others. In Broqi:field 143 more: interested, he’ proceeds with. diminishing -
Vit out of his mind ; ‘its: story has~ not: passed? 0
se through his ‘imagination.only, like an arrow : =.)
the New-Hampshire Association, as‘appears by - “ In my former letter you havea short accouat im each it has" Jeft a wound,’ that cannot be heals -
veand not till then, when every-refoge of lies has. ¢ >", °
eds more willbeadded him in the Gospel, end in bitterness of soul exe 0000.
- ; , 9 be-saved 2°—The ss
2saved. He 00
me ts. 2 r : - Jta< 1.) Phis is merely stating a single example, among.) >)
~ necticut have alio been. gracidusly visited. -.-In>.° Besides these revivals, othicrs have taken place thousands that do,-and millions (hat might occur, — a
tade of labyarers to-enter into the vast harvest -of grass, and there perhaps a flower, where all ©:
Jape nome npanger
