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REVIVALS.
York.—Thellaptisl Church in Essex county, N.
TANARUS., lias received 30 by baptism.
Tie church in Moriah has received an accession of 13
by taptism.
j revival is reported in Port Richmond, Staten Island, in
wpeh 60 have professed hope and 40 received for baptism
ir/the Ist church.
. With the Baptist church of 3 mile Bay in New York, a
fleeting of three weeks has boon held, during which 85 will
mg converts were buried with Christ in baptism and 25 more
received as candidates for the ordinance.
In Brooklyn, 16 have been lately baptized.
In Galesburg, 8 have lately been baptized and 14 or 15
more ate candidates forthe ordinance the next Sabbath.
A revival has been sometime in progress in Kalamazoo
:u which 80 are said to have united with the church.
At Jackson, 23 have recently been baptized and many
others are expected soon to follow.
In Penfield, New York, a goodly number give evidence of
conversion within a few weeks. Twenty-one have been
baptized.
Massachusetts.— ln Suffield, a revival appears to be
quietly spreading over the town. Between 50 or 60 have
already been baptized by Ilev. Mr. Ives of the 2nd Baptist
church. It is said to extend from Suffield to Springfield,
where a still larger number has been baptized by Rev. Mi.
Clarke, pastor of the Baptist elm rch in that town.
Ohio.— Since the first of February, 20 have been added
to the Baptist church in Adairsville, Ohio, by baptism, and in
Grove Port 6 have been baptized, and 9 more are candidates.
Nsw Jeksev. —We learn that 10 have recently been bap.
tized into the fellowship of the New Durham church.
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, [For (hr Christian Indejc.\
AFFLICTIONS PECULIAR TO SOME CHRISTIANS.
Afflictions are the common lot of all God’s children. Os
these “all are partakers” to some extent. These may pro
perly be termed ordinaly afflictions. But there are others
tlval may, with equal propriety be styled extraordinary.—
-iSwMrw-sof xfit most eminent Christians that eVCr lived ; and :
whoseemed toexcella.ll others in piety, labors of love, and
unshaken purpose in Cod’s holy.causo, have been the parti
cipants of those : Job, Paul, and Bunyan are permanent wit-,
nesses of this truth. Why it is, that some of Cod’s people
are providentially called to pass “through floods and flames,”,
while others seem to glide smoothly on, is not known to us:
but sure we are of one fact, and that fact will one day be
•clearly known to all, what God does is right.
In retrospecting the past, wo see some of those strange and
remarkable occurrences, and their consequent teachings.—
When adversity lias come upon them “like a flood,” and
has swept their all away ; when the last prospect of this
world’s pleasure was placed beyond hope .of recovery ; and
when the tempter Lad been permitted to display his venom,l
rage and fury upon them, by prostrating them in the “dust
and ashes” of affliction —then, how often has it been, that
sinners have joined issue with the inhabitants of hell, ini
scorning and deriding them ! And in how many instances
have professed Christians, under such unpopular circum
stances, turned away and withheld their consolations. Yes,
hoW many, who in prosperity were their friends and assis
tants, when stern adversity had come, with all its destructive
train, have turned against them, and said by their acts, “wej
know’ you not.”
If there should be one who reads these lines, thatcan wit-,
ness thbse things, to him we would say, afflicted soul look up!
Those are the “refiners” that “purify” the gold. Unsound!
faith will, under those trials, fall prostrate ; but that which is
“sure and steadfast” will, when sufficiently tried, be doubly ■
strengthened. The combined “powers of darkness” may
shake it, but they can never overturn it. In prosperity,
much of your a (feet ions, perhaps, were set upon the alluring
and transitory things o r this poor world, but now God is your ,
only refuge. In mercy he is tearing off"your clogs and hin-j,
drances, that impede your progress to heaven. Afflicted ;
soul! calm thy fears! Those are God’s mercies in disguise:
for,
“Behind a frowning Providence,
He hides a smiling face.”
Teachings like those above, impart the most valuable in
struction to the Christian, and such as cannot be had from
any other source. Never before perhaps, did he look with
so much scrutiny upon the “course of time,” and in soul-ex
panding feelings he exclaims, alas! how few, are acquaint- 1
ed with the unsearchable ways of the Most High; and have
an accurate knowledge of the deep depravity of the human
heart, and the deceptive disposition of wicked friends. Oh!
how few, experimentally know, what it is to contend success- ;
fully with the “powers of darkness.” Erring man does not
consider, that God will take Ins children home, “through i
great tribulation.” How little does he think, that those are
His “chosen and tried jewels.” Alas, for sinful man ! what:
inconceivable blindness ! He does not know that God, in
afflicting l.is precious ones is purging away their “dross, V M
and as it were, removing the “motes” from the “apple of
; His own eye.” E. V. i :
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Religions Intelligence.
ANNIVERSARIES OF NORTHERN BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES,
The American Baptist Home Mission Society will hold its
I; 17th anniversary in the city of New York, in the meeting
: house of the Oliver St. Church, on Thursday, May 10th,
1849. The meeting for bus ness will be held in the Lecture
, Room, commencing at 10 o’clock, A.M., and that for public
exercises, in the church, at 71 o’clocK, P. M.
A public meetiug fur addresses, &0., will be held in Phil
adelphia on Monday evening, May 14, in the meeting house
• of the Eleventh Baptist Church, (Rev. Mr. Gillette’s) in!
I Twelfth st., commencing at 74 o’clock.
The American and Foreign Bible Society will hold its next
anniversary in the meeting house of the Oliver St. Baptist 1
i Church, in New York, on Friday, the 11th May, commene
| ing at lUo’elook, A. M.
The meeting for business will commence at nine o’clock
A. M.
The annual Sermon will be delivered by the Rev. S. B.
Swain, of Worcester, Mass., in the m' 1 . ting house of the San
sotn Street Church, Philadelphia, on the evening of Lord’s 1
day, the 13th of May.
The American Baptist Missionary Union will hold its next
j annual meeting in the meeting house of the Ctu Baptist
i Church, Sansom St., Philadelphia, on Thursday, May 17th;
ensuing, at 10 o’clock, A. M. The annual sermon will be
i preached by Rev. Morgan J. Rhees, of Delaware, or Rev E.
L. Magoon, of Ohio, his alternate.
Religious Tendencies in Italy. —An extract of a private■
letter from Italy, published in England, contains the follow
ing : “A great change is taking place in tlie Church of this
! country. Papacy has received a shock from which it is not
| 'expected to recover. It so said there are sixty thousand!
people in all Italy, ready to renounce (he errors of Popery,
and that they ale only waiting tilliheycah number one hun
dred thousand, to make open profession. Wo often heat
sentiments from our Italian acquaintances that make us
•start: instead of looking upon us as lest heretics, they can,!
dot only converse in a friendly and rational manner on tin’
subject, but it is become a comrhon tiling for tin in to say,
!“Y'ou are right and we arc wrong P These poor creatures
\ are not free to change their religion ; their Church is one of
i bondage, and they must give up rank aid fortune, when they
give up their false creed One certain fact is that there
is an open talk here of breaking tip some of the convents,
—a speaking sign of the times, and reminds one ol the reign
of Henry VIII. In short, the downfall of Popery is a com
mon subject here, and if thd'Almightk is so working out hi*
ijown ends, wo must not inconvc
inience that ail those changes and ivlOions bring upon in
dividuals,” — N. Y. Recorder. ™
Sercdiifg Clergymen. —Ono of the absurdities of the En
glish laws, is that by which a clergyman seceding from the
Established church, is liable to imprisonment for lite, if he
preaches the Gospel to any congregation after his secession.
In the case of Mr. Slio're, prosecuted by his bishop for this of.
, fence, the courts have decided that this law is valid, and that
Mr. S. is liable to the penalty. This fact has aroused public
sentiment and brought in an abundance of petitions to Purlia-,
ment, for a change of the law; and a bill for abolishing the
abuse is in progress through Parliament.
j Discipline in tlie Established Church. —The lord Bishop
of London has introduced a bill into the House of lords, pro
viding for the appointment of a Court of Appeal for the trial
jof heresy in clergymen in orders. lie pfppps.es that the \
Court be composed of the two Archbishops, throe Bishops,,
two Oxford Professors, and eight legal, gentlemen in high
station. Thus the Slate, and not the Church, is to bo the
judge of heresy. The net which such men would spread,
would catch tlie evangelical clergy, and let Pusayitps, not to;
sav fox-huriters, escape. Such is another exemplification ofp
j the advantage of Establishments,— Presbyterian.
ill isf cll ft it eott s 3tc m3 .
! Sate of the. Great Britain. —Thc'stoamcr Great Britain has I '-
1 changed owners. It is rumored that she has been purehas- 1
ed by a company who intend to carry passengers between
some point on the western side of South Ameiica and San
Francisco. The Sum she realized is said to be £25,000.
Prize for Machinists. —Mr. Moreton, an American prin
ter, died lately in Paris. He has bequeathed £40,000 to be
given as a premium to anybody who shall succeed in eon- ,
structing a machine capable of striking off 10,000 copies of a
newspaper within an hour.— Paris Cor. London Times.
Richard M. Hoe, an American, now in Paris, with his
new press will be üble to test the reality of tills bequest, tor
his press easily works 12,000 per hour.
A Las us Eaturai. —Col. O. H. Perry, of Pleasant Ridge.
!iPerry county, Ala., writes that lie has recently seen at Mr.
i Henly’s plantation, “A heifer whose fore legs are united,
and form a solid substance from the breast to the hoofs. It
lias two heads and two necks, which are equally proportion !
ed. It has four hind legs, supporting two bodies.” ‘This
. is the most remarkable lusus naturae in record in this South
western region.
Business in Chattanooga. —lt is really’ refreshing to look
at the increase of business in Chattanooga, particularly on
the river. There is nearly every day a long string of wagons
going to or coming from the river, hauling from and to Dal
i ton. On Monday there was a perfect jam before the ware
houses. About 60or 70 wagons were unloaded and re-load
-led on that day. The forwarding merchants, their clerks’
‘and supernumeraries all had as much as they Could do. In
other departments of business, there is evidently some revi
jval. We hope the time is not distant, when Chattanooga
‘wiil assume her place among the commercial cities of the
west.— Chat. Gazette.
Mississippi and the Lakes United. —The late immense flood
at Chicago, it is supposed, destroyed property to the amount
of $200,000. Great damage was done to shipping, houses,
[lands, &c* Several lives were lost. The flood was caused
iby the extraordinary overflow of streams which usuallv
[empty into the Mississippi. A Chicago paper, dat n d sever
al days betore the freshet, says that the river Dos Plaines,
which usually empties into the Illinois, was seeking tide
water by way of the Niagara, and was flowing into the Chi
cago river, making such a current as to clear out the sand
bars much more'effectually than a dozen River and Harbor
Bills of Congress. It is within the recollection of many citi
zens of Northern Illinois that there was formerly natural
wntereonimunication between tin’ Lakes and the Mississippi,
at the precise point at which this union is at present effected,
by the extraordinary amount of melting snow upon the sur
face.
‘idle flood did no damage to the city of Alton, which is sit
uated on elevated ground. Nearly all the towns on the Illi
nois river are under water, add in many cases totally aband
oned by tlie people. At Pern thirty buildings have been
(destroyed or greatly injured, among which were two hotels
land a large warehouse. At Lock port the greater part of the
‘hydraulic basin has been washed away, besides tlie destruc
tion of much other valuable property. A IVora a costly and
.elegant .bridge; just finished, has been carried off, except one
I arch. A uumber of lives have bet n Ist at various points.
| Attend to your Peaches. —The Alabama Planter says;
“A gentleman handed usyi derday the following, which trine
be of service to some dt our readers : A friend of mine litis
just informed me of tiie success lie met with by the applica
tion of charcoal to peach trees. A few years ago ho had
‘some fine peach frees in Ids garden, which invariably hod
wormy fruit, and the trees were full of gum. When the
fruit was about tlie size of marbles, lie had the earth removed
.from each about two feet round and three inches deep, and
filled with charcoal. The remit was that the fruit grew to
! n fine size, was free from worms; and every year since the
fruit has been good, and the trees became healthy and frits
I from gum, while two trees left without the charcoal continue
jto bear wormy fruit, and are unhealthy.”
| Tu;o Hunt Things. —First, to talk of yourself without be
ing vain. Second, to talk of others without slander.
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ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA.
TWELVE DA YS LATER FROM EUROPE.
IIV MAGNETIC TEt-EGBAPH.
Translated fur tlie American through JLsssrs. Garland & Thompson's Agency.’
St. John’s, N. li., April 18—10 P. M.
The steamer Huropa, Capt. Lott, with twelve days later
news from Europe, arrived at Halifax at half past 10 o’clock
this morning. Our express left at 11 o’clock, and though
the roads are still very heavy made a splendid run to Dighy.
‘Hie distance, 145 miles was made in 9 hours and 5 minute’s.
Tiie Europa brought 11 passengers for Halifax and forty
jthree for New York*
i The steamer America arrived at Liverpool on the mornintr
joftlic 3d inst. after a rapid runofubout 91 days from Boston?
The steamer Washington, from New York, arrived at
! Southampton on the sth inst. and proceeded to Bremen on
Itlie following day.
Under the influence ofmore favorable advices from India,
and tiie previously existing lull in the excitement of Conti!
Mental politics, trade iji nearly every department was begin
in ing to resume a more cheerful aspect. There is stilTau
uneasy feeling respecting tho threatened hostilities in the
North of Europe, but since tlie abrupt and decisive termina
tion of the conflict between the Sardinian and Austrian forces
and the complete prostration and abdication of Charles Al
bert, one of the most serious obstacles to a satisfactory ad
ljustment of the Continental difficulties seems to have* been
(overcome; and could the Danish quarrel be disposed ol
; which unfortunately there is no present prospect of, nothing
material could stand iri tlie way of permam tit prosperity. ’
The English Funds are ajjain on the advance, and Con
jsols have risen orie-eiglith per cent, during the last two
weeks, having fluctuated from 93J on the 2d, to 92 arid 921.
on the sth, at which they closed for money.
We have the latest London and Liverpool papers, hut do not
observe the least allusion to American Stocks, Money,
though still abundant, has slightly increased in value. The
lowest Bank rate is still 3 per cent, but with private Banks
the best bills are still done at about 2.* per cent. There*
turns of the Bank of England show that the bullion in their
vaults is about £15,30(1,000, so that any drain which arises
from the United Slates in connection with the present ine
quality of the exchanges will be met without the least diffi
culty, and fears of renewing the scenes of 1847-
l’iie weekly accounts of the Bank of France show a pro
jgressive improvement of tlie trade of Paris. Too French
Funds, since the total defeat of Charles Albert have been (o
5 per cents 89 80.
The importation of Breadstuff; into Great Britain contin
ue upon a gigantic scale, and the same maybe said of all
kinds of Provisions. No change can be not. and in the Grain
trade, although a firmer feeling was manifested during the
last few days previous to tijo sailing of the Europa.
[After receiving the above, the wires ceased working, sup
‘posed to be caused by the prevalence of a snowstorm. J
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