Christian Examiner (Volume 8; V. 13)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: or in a certain congregation, are more than usually susceptible of impression from the exhibition of moral truth. It is admitted also, that private exercises are more important at such times, than at any other, and may be more effectual; that there may be a true revival where all is calm and noiseless. Moreover we are told, that seasons of revival are marked by the amount of religious instruction given, a feature quite new to us. In the possibility, occurrence, and blessing of such revivals, we believe. We pray and would strive for them. Let men admit the dangers and evils that are admitted in this volume; let them lay aside the machinery and measures which are here censured; let them proclaim a revival there, and there only, where there is an increased soberness and active interest in all that is true, and spiritual, and imperishable, all that can exalt society and lead men to Christ and God, then we will believe, and unite, and heartily rejoice. Art. V. 1. textit{Christian Messenger. By B. W. Stone and John T. Johnson, Elders in the Church of Christ. 12mo. [Published monthly.] Georgetown, Kentucky. 2. textit{The Millennial Harbinger, Edited by Alexander Camb- Bf.ll. 8vo. [Published monthly.] Bethany, Virginia. 3. textit{The Evangelist. By Walter Scott. [Published monthly.] 12mo. Cincinnati, Ohio. The first of these periodical publications is supported by the Christian Connexion; the other two by the Reformed Baptists, or Reformers, as they are commonly called. We shall throw together such slight notices as we have been able to collect from these works, and from other sources, of the history and principles of both denominations, and their prospects in the West. The oldest society in the Christian Connexion was formed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in Ma...