THREE HUNDRED FISHERMEN CONVERTED.

At Rockaway, L. I., the revival, which has been for some time in progress, has had such an influence upon the community, that there are not more than half a dozen adult persons in the place who have not become members of churches. Among those who have been recently converted are three hundred fishermen. One of these fishermen said at a meeting, "When we used to go down to the creek to fish, we used to curse and use all sorts of profane language, but now we go out in our boats singing, and songs of praise are wafted from one boat to another."

REVIVALS IN NEW ENGLAND.

In Boston, the business-men's prayer-meetings, which many of the chief merchants in the city leave their counting-rooms to attend, are of a character never before known in Boston or Massachusetts. A correspondent, in speaking of the character of the work, says:

"It is not excitement. There is none of that wildness so often manifested in seasons of religious interest. The work has reached theBlack Sea,' our Five Points. Publicans and sinners' aro awakened, and are entering the prayer-meetings of their own accord. Some of them manifest sincere signs of repentance, and a movement is on foot to make them a home, to place them where vice shall not find, nor temptation allure them."

In Newburyport, the number of conversions were reported, some two months ago, to have reached six hundred. In New Bedford, about the same number; and, in Lynn, Andover, Amherst, Northampton, Springfield, and scores of other villages in Massachusetts, numerous instances of hopeful conversions have occurred, including persons of all classes and conditions of life.

CONVERSIONS ON BOARD A RECEIVING SHIP.

Ten conversions have recently occurred on board the receiving ship Ohio, at the Charlestown (Mass.) Navy Yard. These persons represent six different nations, and some of them, until recently, had never entered a house of worship or heard the voice of prayer. A number of inquirers are still found on board the same vessel.

In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, revivals of great power and extent have existed or are now in progress. In one village in Connecticut, it is said, "there is not an adult to be found who has not been converted." With reference to that entire State, the opinion has been expressed, by one of their religious editors, that there has been "a larger number of conversions, in proportion to the number of inhabitants, than in the days of Edwards." The students of Yale College, at New

Haven have shared largely in this blessing; as also those of Amherst College, Massachusetts, Brown University, Rhode Island, and Union College, New York, which we omitted to mention when noticing the revivals in those States.

REVIVALS IN NEW JERSEY.

The religious interest in New Jersey has pervaded the whole State. Jersey City, Newark, Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Trenton, and very manycontiguous and intermediate places have witnessed the glorious displays of God's grace; and much of West Jersey, from Camden to Cape May, has been revived in a similar manner. The College of New Jersey, at Princeton, has participated in these reviving influences, and also Rutgers College, at New Brunswick. The late meetings of the several Presbyteries, in that State, disclosed a more prosperous condition of the churches than has been reported within the memory of their oldest ministers.

THE REVIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA AND IN PENNSYLVANIA.

The attention to religion has been as general in Philadelphia as in New York, and the fruits of the awakening have been proportionably large. Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists, &c., have been alike participants in this ingathering of souls. Members of the Society of Friends seem to have felt the impulse, and to have joined in seeking the common salvation. Sabbathschools have been greatly blessed. In one school fifty or more have entered the communion of the Church. Mariners' churches, congregations composed of people of colour, and the inmates of hospitals, and other institutions of public charity, have given decided indications of the presence and power of the Holy Ghost.

In Pittsburg and many other places in Pennsylvania, both east and west, the churches have received a new baptism of the Holy Spirit, and additions have been made to them, as is hoped, "of such as shall be saved." Washington and Jefferson Colleges, in Western Pennsylvania, have been graciously visited, and a considerable number of students have, it is believed, experienced religion.

REVIVALS IN THE WESTERN STATES.

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Travelling westward through Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin, in cities, villages, and country places, the subject of religion has almost everywhere engrossed public attention. A correspondent of an paper writing from Chicago, says, that" the entire western country is sharing in the revival movement. It is the frequent subject of conversation on railroad cars, and is treated very generally with seriousness and respect." In Cleveland, Ohio, a thousand souls

are believed to have been truly converted to Christ. At Columbus, an ex-Lieutenant-Governor of the State has professed religion, and become its earnest advocate. At Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, and Chicago, four of the largest cities in the West, a similar seriousness has existed with that already mentioned concerning eastern cities; and from numerous smaller cities and villages, information is communicated, to the effect that the outpouring of God's Spirit is truly wonderful. Several of the cities which have been visited by this movement, as Detroit, Indianapolis, Dubuque, &c., though less populous than those previously named, are of the first class in relation to their own States; and the country around has been, in many instances, even more highly favoured than the cities. In some places whole households, none of whom were previously serious, have become the happy subjects of Divine grace. Several colleges have shared in this revival, among which may be mentioned Hanover College, Indiana, an institution which was founded in prayer, and which has been frequently blessed with revivals of religion.

REVIVALS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Revivals of more or less power have occurred in Wilmington, Delaware, Baltimore, Maryland, Washington City, Richmond, Virginia, Charleston, South Carolina, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee, and at a considerable number of other points in those and other States; viz., in Georgia, including Oglethorpe University, in North Carolina, including Davidson College, and in Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. In some of these States large effusions of the Holy Spirit have been enjoyed. A gentleman writing from Wheeling, Virginia, to a friend in New England, makes the following interesting statement. "In some neighbourhoods almost the entire adult population is brought under its influence. I know of many churches where there are 100 to 200 accessions, while there is but one church within the circuit of several counties, so far as I have heard, that has not shared to a greater or less extent in the blessed work. Probably not the least interesting and important part of this work consists in the fact, that while very many heads of families and persons of mature years, have been brought under its influence, it has embraced quite a large number of Sabbathschool children. I have seen from forty to fifty, and in one instance as many as sixty, at our meetings of inquiry, at a time. Such a sight I have never been permitted to see. I remem

ber well the revivals of 1830 and 1831, when so many were converted in Old Hampshire County, in Enfield, Belchertown, and maybe in other places, through the instrumentality of the Rev. Asahel Nettleton and others. Then, especially in Enfield, for several days in succession, the church-going bell was heard, and the farmer left his plough, the mechanic his shop, the manufacturer ceased to spin and weave, and all were actuated by one feeling

-that of seeking salvation by faith. And precious as was that eventful period to me, the revivals I have recently been permitted to see and enjoy, far exceed those of that day. They are more akin to those under Edwards of Northampton and Porter of Belchertown.

A Mobile paper states, that in nearly all the congregations of that city, the converts, within a few weeks, have been unusually numerous. In New Orleans, at our latest intelligence, meetings for prayer were held daily and were largely attended. At Savannah and Augusta, Georgia, Columbia, &c., South Carolina, and Wilmington, Fayetteville, Raleigh, &c., North Carolina, a similar interest exists, and many precious souls have been converted to Christ.

The coloured population of the South have been made partakers of this exuberant display of Divine grace. The editor of the Southern Presbyterian (a Charleston, S. C., paper), states that over thirty persons were lately admitted to the Anson Street Coloured Church, of Charleston, making over one hundred who have been added to the membership of that church within twelve months past, on profession of their faith. The Indian tribes on our Southern border have likewise participated in the same blessing. Three hundred and fifty Cherokees are reported to have experienced religion since January last.

We have taken this general survey, in order to show the extent of this revival. The places named are mentioned merely as specimens, and on account of their local importance; but not because the work is more powerful at these points than at very many others not particularized in this enumeration. The above are not a tithe of the places which have been in like manner rendered morally fragrant and lovely by this glorious shower of Divine grace.

A cloud of mercy, however small, when charged with such blessings as these, should be hailed with gratitude and joy. How much more when this cloud encompasses the whole heavens. If the conversion of a single soul is heralded to heaven as an event at which the angels rejoice, who can estimate the importance of two hundred thousand conversions? With our gratitude for so signal a favour, let us intercede with God in behalf of the multitudes who are yet unregenerate. Giving, does not diminish his resources, nor does withholding increase them. His grace is an exhaustless store, and though we are unworthy to receive the smallest favour, none are too great for us to ask, seeing he has already given us unasked the unspeakable gift of his Son." He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"

J. W.

THE VALLEY OF VISION.

AND I saw the wickedness of men and the evils that do prevail in the earth; and my soul was sad, and grew faint, as in a deep, sorrowful sleep.

And in my sleep I dreamed a dream.

Methought I was seized and borne away, over cities and countries, by some gentle but resistless power, which, transporting me whithersoever it listed, after many wanderings to and fro, at length conducted me back toward the earth.

And, as I was being thus conducted back toward the earth, for the first few moments, a sight of surpassing beauty entranced my gaze.

I beheld, spread out beneath me and stretching far away in the distance, what seemed a spacious plain, that to my eye lay reposing as the very image of peace and loveliness. Sky and meadow and river lay locked as in the embrace of enchantment. The entire landscape was clothed in verdure and freshness, and the few white clouds, curtained around and above it, seemed like hovering seraphs to guard its slumber.

And, gazing more intently, I could discern signs of human habitation, scattered throughout the fair and beautiful region. I saw cities and towns, with sun-gilt dome and spire, strewn over its green provinces like diamond over emerald. And mighty works of skill and prowess were towering on its hills, and spanning its rivers, and careering through its valleys. And everywhere the pride and glory of human greatness were passing like a pageant beneath my

view.

And, as I was carried still nearer, approaching a section of the plain toward which I seemed drawn as if by an instinct, I could perceive familiar faces in the throngs who tenanted those abodes of peace and plenty. There were the dear forms of friend and kindred. The smile of affection was beaming toward me; and the light laugh of childhood fell sweetly on my ear; and a gush of delight thrilled me as I made the recognition. Ah, what eye so dull, it can survey the spectacle of human glory, and not kindle with exultation! What heart so cold that the voice of human kindness shall waken in it no responsive feeling!

But scarcely had these wayward reflections passed through my mind ere I became sensible of a more hurried movement toward the plain, the whole scene meanwhile (which I had before been contemplating from a distance) rapidly transforming itself, as in a dissolving picture, of which, for the time, I could get no distinct impression, until at length, confused and scarcely conscious of what had occurred, I was landed in the very heart of the region. And, as soon as I recovered from my bewilderment and could take a survey of objects around me, I found that an utter deception