elevate thefe children more, than to talk to them about death and a future judgment.

This bleffed work of God has fpread over a confiderable extent in that new country; it reaches from the Ohio river about twenty miles up the Big Beaver.About forty perfons have given comfortable evidences of a thorough change of heart. A number of praying focieties have been lately fet up; in one place it has come over the Ohio river, and feems to fpread through the old fettlement, in a congregation called Mill-creek. All these are within the bounds of the Ohio Prefbytery. O that the glory of God may fill all the earth, and that the happy days which he has promised his church, might foon come on," when all fhall know the Lord, from the leaft unto the greatest!"

June 18. Within these few days, I hear that the awakening in the Rev. Mr. Brice's congregation is much increased. That there is fomething of the fame glorious work going on in the congregations under the care of the Rev. Mr. Patterson. Lately there have been fome favourable appearances among the young people of my charge. A number appear to be deeply impreffed with a folemn fense of their fin and danger, and fome few have come forward to the Lord's table for the firft time.

Extract of a Letter from a Clergyman in Washington County, Pennfylvania, to a Perfon in Philadelphia, dated Canonsburg, April 25, 1799.

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N the laft winter, and efpecially this fpring, there have appeared, in various parts of this western country, more effects of the power of God's fpirit, working on the hearts of finners, and quickening his people, than for many years paft. On Big Beaver, and between the Beavers (names of large creeks weft of Ohio), there is, I believe, without doubt, a very extenfive and powerful work of God, which I hope has brought many fouls to

Christ. It was begun under the preaching of Mr. Tho mas Hughes, and carried on by the miniftry of various inftruments. Mr. Hughes has accepted a call to the paftoral charge of that people. In Mr. Brice's congregations, the work of God is extenfive and powerful. I am informed, that there are not five families under his charge, without awakened finners, or comforted converts. In Chartiers, and the academy of Canonsburg, many are folemnly awakened, and fome beginning to fpeak with new tongues. It much resembles a precious period that was enjoyed here about feventeen years ago. On Mill-creek, and down the river (Ohio), on both fides, numbers are crying, what they fhall do to be faved, and carneftly inquiring for the means of grace. In my congregations, though ftill lamentably languid, there have been'a number hopefully brought to Christ, in the last winter and fpring, efpecially in Monture's congregation, where there appears, of late, fome attention to the one thing needful.

Extract of a Letter from a Clergyman in Connecticut, dated Harwinton, March 31, 1799.

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E have a moft glorious time here, and in the neighbouring towns. The impreffion is very general in many towns, and confiderable-in more than forty. After an increafing folemnity for feven or eight weeks, the fpirit of God came among us in this place in a very extraordinary manner, We number about thirty converts in lefs than fix weeks. The work in every place wears the fame complexion. A plain demonftration of divine power-much acquaintance with the corruption of the heart-humble fubmiffion, attended with no enthusiasm, diforder, or confufion. Relief from diftrefs takes place with the fubmiffion-and generally, the foul is feafted with views of the divine cha

racter for feveral days before a hope is obtained. So much power, purity, and humility never faw.of heard of, in any work fince the days of the apofties; and what is remakable, every one comes out on the true diftinguishing gofpel ground, in many cafes where they had been. ftrongly oppofed to it, and infome without any thing being faid to them. By information, real conviction increafest in every town: this is the cafe here, and our glorious Lord will, I believe, yet obtain more trophies of his victorious grace.I write in hafte The demand for labour is fuch, that I can attend no common business whatever. In the feveral parts of this town, there are fix meetings for conference and prayer, regularly obferved every week, befide one or two more general at the meeting-houfe. I have three lectures this week, befides the concert of prayer on Tuefday. It is remarkable, that this work is confined almoft exclufively to fuch focieties as have obferved the concert of prayer. Story.. ano hoke

I thought you would be glad to have a fketch of the above. Excufe the broken manner in which I have wrote.

N. B. By a pretty accurate eftimation, there have been born to God in four months paft, in the feveral towns, more than one thousand fouls. One more remark; in this place more than two thirds are young married people, and it is much fo in other places; but the profpect now is of a harveft of youth in this place.

Extract of a Letter from the Rev. Afa Burton, of Vermont, dated Thetford, July 6, 1799.

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OUR letter of June 18th, arrived yesterday. As it is your earneft defire to be favoured with religious intelligence as early as poffible, I fit down to comply with your requeft. Indeed, it is very defirable that

in your Ma all revivals of religion fhould havé a place gazine. For fuch intelligence must be a great source of the fweetest joy to the friends of Zion, and excite them to carneft prayer, that God would come down in divine influences, as showers upon the mown grafs, and water every part of our dry and thirsty land. For many years divine grace has not been, I believe, fo wonder fully difplayed in the converfion of finners, as at the prefent day.

In Thetford, an attention to the great things of re ligion ftill continues, and this is the third year fince A very promifing revival of reliits commencement. gion began laft winter, at Newbury, Vermont, and There ftill continues with increasing purity and power. is also a great attention to religion in a part of Chelsea, Tunbridge, Bethel, and Brookfield, towns adjacent to each other in Vermont. This work is not, in fome refpects, fo pure, fo free from imaginary ideas, and animal affections, as those which prevail in other parts. The wonderful difplays of divine grace have lately begun in a part of Hanover and Norwich, Vermont, which ftill profper. There has alfo been a great fpiritual fhower on the inhabitants of Cornifh, Newport, Meridon, and Lebanon, in New-Hampshire. With refpect to the religious revivals at Bennington, Shaftsbury, and towns in that vicinity, you will or have received better information than I am able to give. So alfo with refpect to the revival and fpread of the work of God in the Province of Maine, Maffachusetts, where, I am informed, it prevails for an hundred and fifty miles in length, and is daily increasing. But particulars refpecting this work, I hope you will receive from thofe who live where it prevails. Of the revivals in Berkshire county, Maffachusetts, and in Hartford, and other towns in Connecticut, you will undoubtedly receive information from gentlemen in thofe parts.

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When fuch glad tidings are founding in our ears from fo many places, how ought our hearts to rejoice in the profperity of Zion, and enkindle in every heart, friendly

to the caufe of God, a fpirit of earnest and fervent prayer to the Almighty, to glorify the riches of his grace in every part of our land, and through the world.

Further particulars refpecting the revivals mentioned,' I will favour you, with as foon as I can obtain them, with fome remarks, perhaps, on the genuineness of a work of God. The revivals in thefe parts have been increafing and spreading for this year past.

Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Whiteftown, dated July 12, 1799.

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E have here and there traces of the fpirit of God, operating on the minds of finners. Several profeffed deifts, in a neighbouring town, who were men of fense and information, have openly difavowed their deiftical fentiments, and publicly confeffed their belief in Chrift. These may be ranked among the ftrongeft evidences in favour of Christianity!

The following Communication was defigned for infertion in the Theological Magazine. Although it is not of a very recent date, the Publisher of the present work deems it worthy of a place here.

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S we take your Magazine in this town, we think proper to exprefs the pleasure we have received in attending to the revivals of religion, in the various parts of the world, which you have taken notice of. Though fome of them, in the modes and forms of worfhip, differ from us, yet, from their descriptions of the nature of the work, we are ready to think they have drank into the fame fpirit. Having feen confiderable concern of foul, and engagednefs in divine things, which, we truft, have been excited and carried on by the