CD' rOlIDII)1EntE. FROM OUR EAST TENNESSEE COR- RESPONDENT. :Purging of Treason and Voml Effects—Gum berland Presbyterian Synod Converted over again—Rebel General Assembly—Thanks giving Day—lmprovement toward Freed men—lnducements to Emigration. KNOXVILLE, E. TENN., Dec. 16, 1865. MR. EDITOR :—Since the churches of East Tennessee commenced purging themselves of treason, the Spirit of God has been poured out with' unwonted power, and in many * places even now they are enjoying precious revivals of religion. Many repentant rebels are bringing forth fruits meet for repentance, and, as it is the office of Christianity to make men honest with God and their brethren, many hearty acknowledgments have ben made, and many affecting re conciliations hafe been perfected. Some, of course, seem incorrigible, and it is feared they will be given over to repro bacy of mind ; but the Spirit of Christ is becoming more and more pervasive. The meeting of THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD of East Tennessee, not long since, was eminently historic. Rev. Samuel B. West, every way worthy of confidence as a loyal and good man, had been la boring to bring his brethren in working relations with their General Assembly, but many held aloof ontkground that their alleged treason wleAtily an honest political difference of opinion. Matters came to a crisis in the Synq.. He told them they all bad clocument*evidence of their guilt in their pockets, and if they would take out their amnesty oath and examine it, they could not but see the propriety of their becoming reconciled to the brotherhood by taking some appro priate step to secure this desired end. At length one minister rose up, and with genuine sorrow acknowledged his errors and asked forgiveness. Others followed, and still others, in the same direction, until all the rebel members of Synod but two, placed themselves right on the rec ord. The scene was one never to be forgotton. Pride gave place to humility ; worldly policy was swept away in the triumph of principle, and tears of peni tence were mingled with those of joy, as the brethren grasped each other by the hand and pledged themselves anew to be loyal to their God and to their country. In this spirit they went to their fields of labor to build up the waste places of Zion. In contrast with all this, how different the course of the REBEL GENERAL ASSEMBLY, convened to-day in Macon, Georgia. It is to be a conglomerate of pro-slavery, disloyal Presbyterian ministers, Old School, New School, and Cumberland, south of Mason and Dixon'is line, who hold, with the Christian' Observer, that Union ministers ought be under ban, while their amalgam of. Confederates should be held at a premium. Fortify ing themselves in defence of the wrong, unwilling to acknowledge or correct their errors, emboldened by their own num bers, they enter upon a new crusade against the inherent and inalienable rights of man for the overthrow of lib erty, and to uphold their monstrous per versions of Divine truth. Having been disappointed in their former plans and hopes, time will determine whether this new attempt to flank the Almighty and to hold the rubbers against, the chariot wheels of Freedom will be attended with anything else than disastrouS failure. THANKSGIVING DAY was observed in many places in East Tennessee by public ligious services. As a listener, you would have enjoyed many of the discourses delivered on that day - . It would have reassured your conviction that the Puritan type of civ ilization is to preiail through all our borders. I doubt whether there was greater freedom of utterance in Massa chusetts than among us on the vital topics before the nation. GOV. BROWNLOW AND THE FREEDMEN Governor Brownlow has just issued a stirring appeal to the loyal people of this section of the State, which will be apc, proved by a majority of the people. The colored man will be allowed his testi mony sooner or later in our courts, and rather than have the Government fall into the hands of the rebels, the ballot also will be put into his hand. If five millions of dollars should be raised by Christian liberality, the coming year, for the instruction of the freedmen, and Wisely used, public sentiment will go on changing rapidly toward their complete enfranchisement. Those who owned the largest number of slaves, I have' no ticed, take the most liberal views of this matter, and favor all measures for the elevation of the colored people. The slaves of bigotry and prejudice, who never owned a 'colored man and ap q►roach the nearest to his intellectual and social condition, are most clamorous against all movements for his elevation. Many, even of these, are beginning to adjust themselves to that result which they are constrained to admit is predes tined and inevitable. A great society might be formed against the coming of Spring, but Spring will come. IMMIGRATION The tide of immigration brings many valuable settlers among us, but they do not come as rapidly as we would like to have them. In Blount County, for ex ample, where several hundred of the chivalry went into the rebellion, and have been reduc.d to the condition of :bankrupts or exiles by their suicidal folly, many desirable houses are for sale. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1865 Farmers could be suited here on reason able terms. A farm of over three hun dred acres, five miles from Maryville, and one mile from a Presbyterian church, is offered at ten dollars per acre. We need blacksmiths, coopers, cabinet makers, carriage -makers, mechanics and mill-wrights. Maryville, the county seat, went off bodily into the rebellion, and we invite Presbyterian families, seeking a change t of residence, to con sider the question's whether they can do better than to cast in their lot with loyal East Tennessee. The College here will be opened in a few weeks, anitstudents will be flocking here as of old7from our own and adjoining States. The Acade my is under headway, and the pupils are making commendable press. Other counties, as well as Blount, in vite the emigrant from the Northern and Western States, who desires a healthy and agreeable home. There are eight Presbyterian churches, however, in Blount, and the man who prefers a Pres byterian neighborhood, might suit him self in some one of these eight settle ments. Mr. Brown, an intelligent Pres byterian from New York State, has, settled at Morristown, and he hopes many of his friends will.follow his exam ple. lam more and more convinced that this county has a grand future be fore it. Yours very truly, SAMUEL SAWYER LET US PRAY MORE. el DV t4IILIPIO IJION 148..10 11 01 Dt 11,41 ISTRI DEAR BROTHER :—lt is now a con siderable number of years since we en tered the ministry. We have enjoyed some success and seen some trials ; we have both seen affliction. We have thus had as large opportunities for know ing life as are common for men at our age. And are we not agreed, upon the review of all, that if there is any one thing more demanding our personal im provement than another, it is that we should pray more? You inform me that it has been your habit for some years, to spend the first week or more in each year chiefly in prayer, and the first day in each month ; while you have held at least one hour of each morning sacred 'for the same purpose. And although you have suffered many interruptions of these seasons, yet you attribute to them very much of whatever happiness and success you have enjoyed. We are both inclined to scholarly pursuits ; especially to philosophic studies, though I think we may honestly say that we value the souls of our people more than we do all our studies, or any other considerations what ever. You know I had proposed for this winter and the coming y. some what exhaustive study of. uctrine of Atonement, and had co 6 books for some time past, and espeeialirin my last vacation, with that object in view. I think that we are agreed that our ser mons for each year should have some method; and that aside from occasional sermons, sermons improving Providen ces, and others more limited to immedi ate effect, we should each year give to at least some one strong and important subject, as profound, thorough, and ex haustive meditation and as extensive reading as we are able, and embody their fruits in several elaborate discour ses. Yet, after all, is it not the great de mand of the present season, that we should pray more : 2 There are many indications that this is an "Acceptable year of the Lord." The public mind is relaxed from the wari God's work is especiall e ytfeeded to compose public sen timent, both North and South. Avrent national revival of religion woul do more to reconstruct this nation on a right basis than all other agencies. There is manifestly much expectation of such a revival. There is already more than usual prayerfulness on the part of the churches: There is now great need also of a general revival of .religion, to break the tide of worldliness rolling in upon us from the unprecedented material prosperity, upon which we are now un questionably entering. . We both have many unconvertAl pew-holders in our congregations. Some wlio have been there twenty or thirty years ; others five, ten, or fifteen years ; they have passed through several revi vals ; though many of them did not much attend the meetings held on such occa sions, yet they are still attendants, and some of them very attentive listeners, to our preaching. They hear our most serious discourses, and go away and come and hear again, and still they re main, so far as we know, unconverted. Perhaps some of them are, in reality, converted ; but doubtless most of them are not. We have preached carefully prepared discourses. If both the Church 'and the world had been as ready to heed our preaching as to commend it, we should ha've already had better success. There have been a good many addi tions to our churches during our minis try, especially from the Sabbath-school ; but there remain perhaps a hundred heads of families, men and women, older and younger, who are non-professors, and, as we have reason to fear, mostly unconverted. What can we do more for them ? They are dying, one after an other, and entering eternity. You iuform me that you have just attended the cheer less funeral of the president of one of your principal banks, a man advanced in years, formerly a prominent member of our State Legislature, who has attended worsbip with your church from its or ganization, more than thirty years ago, when indeed be was a leading mover of the new enterprise ; and who yet never professed religion. A little before, you attended the funeral of a young mother of your congregation, who was an atten tive bearer on the Sabbath, 'and occa sionally present at the prayer -meeting; a very kind - friend of your family, and one constantly remembered with hope by yourself ; but who yet clung to fash ionable society, and to some degree of gaiety, and - made no profession of re ligion, till she was suddenly ushered into eternity. I know what you mean when you say that these cases have given you the deepest anguish, and yet that you feel more anxiety for the living who are rapidly following them, than for the dead who are already in the hand of God. And now what shall we do ? It is not likely that we can render our sermons essentially more effective by more labor ; nor can we, by any possibility, spend much more time in pastoral labor than we do now. I believe you, as well as myself, ordinarily spend every afternoon in this manner. What, then, can we do ? Some say, wait in the continued use of the means which you are now employing, until God shall come and give you the harvest. But our churches have already waited twenty or thirty years, and more or less of these people have died every year. Have we not reason to fear that a large number who were in these congregations in years past, are to-day in hell ? The revivals, for some years past, have not seemed much to reach this class. They have been apparently repelled by ma chinery employed, and not conquered by the degree of Divine power exerted Are we then to abandon any decided hope of their speedy conversion ? Is there no thing more that we can do ? Brother, I propose that we pray more. I con fess that when my eye falls upon my shelves of books, my -fine editions of PittaV Aristotle which I purchased the Theological Seminary; upon the works of Bacon, Milton, and Locke; and especially Augustin, Calvin, Howe, Baxter, &c., a small but select library, in which I promised myself to have done so much, and yet, after so many years, have doßyso,little, I •feel a pang of deep regrAtt:):oy Ileart sinks within me. And /fetVis it not better that for this winter, at least, we let these books stand idle and pray more ? I think more prayer is our last resort, and here I think we have something more than we can do. If we shall spend two days each week closeted with God, in confession and intercession, and shall , succeed in unobtrusively inducing *our churches to a cbrresponding increase in prayeVulness, I am not without hope that we shall see a wide and essential change in our congregations within a few months. All hearts are equally within the power of God. He is able to make all our pew-holders e even the um's", hardened, "willing in the day of His power." Have we yet come to God as often as the poor widow did to the un just judge ? Have we yet been as im portunate as the midnight borrower of loaves was ? Have we yet clung as te naciously as the wrestling Jacob did ? Have we yet brought all the resources of our souls in petition, all the tithes of prayer into the store-house ? I, for one, !have not, and I . t'a're not, cannot, leave these, my dear but poor blind people, to the' sovereignty of God, till I have tested the effect of more prayer for them. Per haps even this hold of Satan and sin unmoved so long, may be broken up with prayer and fasting. At least I dare not think of my permanent studies, or of anything else further, till I have made the trial. Our sermons may, and pro bably will, be for the time less elaborate and contain less of well-digested logical thought, but they are not sure to be the less really valuable; and I think we may hope that they will be even more effective for good. They will naturally spring largely out of .our closet days. And may we not bring from the presence of the living God, something weightier and more vivid than we had derived from our own most careful meditations ? Shall we not come before our people with a certain added, and more spiritual, authority ? May there not beam from us a radiance of spirituality, more effec tive upon our hearers, though they un derstand it not, than out mere words? In pastoral labors, I have found that . days of this kind render strictly pastoral duties far more easy. They add a light and buoyancy to them which I cannot otherwise obtain. Religious conversa-• tion, either with the Church or with the• unconverted, seems far less formal, and I think it, is more useful. Indeed, these days wonderfully brighten faith in the heart, and make the work of God seem easy and delightful, as one that must soon conquer, and restore to a Paradise, this lost world. I believe also that these days of prayer will be most fertile in - sug gesting to us expedients for reaching our people. A call upon this one, a carefully-worded note to that, the send ing of a particular Christian to see a third. Profound prayerfulness will make us more discriminating in regard to the exact moral condition of each soul, the providential circumstances favorable to religious impression upon it, and the precise means most likely to win it to Christ. Much prayer will render us more thoughtful, more ingenious and ju dicious in the use of means, more reso lute and hopeful in all pastoral labors. And if we can create in • our people the same deepened prayerfulness, we shall secure in them also, the same fruits . of activity, adaptation, and prudent and efficient Christian enterprise. The more uaobtrueive the real agencies, the more powerful will they doubtless be over the public mind. The power of prayer may come down upon a community without observation, but leave a result as glori ous and enduring as the kingdom of God. " Thy Father which seeth in se cret shall reward thee openly." And even in relation to our studies, I am not sure that we shall lose anything. Has it neler occurred to you, that if we should bring our minds into as severe and protracted exercise in communion with God, as'we find necessary in mas tering the treatises of Augustin, Luther, and Owen, perhaps we should enjoy fresh for ourselves, instead of receiving second-band from them, the profound thoughts which they obtained in that very manner ? Is there not a blended exci tation of thought and feeling ; the intel lectual penetrated, permeated, and hal lowed by the moral and spiritual in prayer, which gives us a product richer and better than any other fruitage of the mind ? Is there not a peculiar illu mination of the whole soul, intellect as well as heart, derived from this source, which eludes all mere intellectual study ? But, whatever the reflex resalts upon Ourselves and our labors, have we not eason to believe that such frequent days of prayer, absorbing now, for a time, at least, a large part of the disposable en ergies of our souls, would render the conversion and salvation of our endeared people at an early day, more probable ? M:ght we not thus rescue some souls, which will otherwise be lost before the cicse of another year ? God will be inquired of; He will infal libly hear and answer prayer ; and " ac cording to our faith," shall it be unto us. We shall have whatever Plato and Alistotle,.Bacon and Kant thought of andtote of ; and even what the Church fathers, reformers, and all theologians hafre treated of, in eternity; but these precious souls, flitting with us across our brief probation, we shall not have. We esp. study hereafter ; they must be saved O i lost now. And does not the whole plan of God's government over men, and thf whole system of redemption, so far as they are revealed to us; the whole NFLOM of God and the whole history of the Church, encourage us to hope that if we now plead before God, day and night, till our whole souls become arouped and , kindled, and our strength tirred up, to take hold on God, and say, "I 4i// not let Thee go, except Thou bles . a me ;" then He will come forth in his might, send His conquering Spirit to those who have hitherto remained in an outer circle and unconverted ; make them willing and bring them in, that there may be one fold' and one Shep herd ? Let us analyze carefully our congre gations, and make out classified lists of them, which may be ever before our eyes, -Dot amnitt-in' t -otre-r antt-b-ca-present therm as a whole, and in classes, and as individu als, bearing them on our hearts before God, day after day, and week after week., to the full meastritof the strength which God shall give us. It will not be in vain. It will do us and our Churches good. As for myself and my Church, we have sinned ; we have been at ease in Zion, while souls have perished. For ourselves, we need to pray more, as well as for the unconverted. And if we so pray, I am confident, dear brother, tliat on Mount Zion we shall welcome some who never knew till after death how we wrestled for them, and who might never have been there except for these redou bled supplications. Brother, let us pray more THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ELMIRA. I Wroth you, two weeks ago, of the Holy Spirit's work in Binghamton. You will be glad, for Christ's sake, to hear of His presence in Elmira. Mr. Hammond came here Saturday, the 9th of December, and held a chil dren's meeting Sunday afternoon, in the First Presbyterian Church. The house was filled, and as prayer went up to God that for His dear Son's sake He would come in tile person of His Holy Spirit, He was graciously pleased to hear and answer in fulfillment of His blessed promise, " while ye are yet speaking, I will hear." Very many of the' little ones came to Jesus that after noon, and their simple faith 'Was beauti fully touching. "Did you give your heart to Christ, deat‘ child ?" I asked of one and another, as I went among them at the chise of Mr. Erammond's address. " Yes," iieplied nearly every one. " Did he take iti?" Yes, was the confident reply, as their little quivering faces were up turned to mine ; and my heart smote me, as I thought of those grown old in His service, who will not become as little children, and take Him simply at His word. My heart ached for Christ, as His entreating promises to such came crowding upon me, and following these I caught those sorrowful, grieved words. Nevertheless, after all these, " when the Son of Man cometh shall He find faith on earth ?" No wonder He took little children in His arms and blessed them, and said, "of such is the kingdlm of Heaven." No wonder He loved them, as looking down to the time when they should be taught to come to Rim, he saw how trustingly and fearlessly they would believe and accept Him. " Be c,ome as little children !" What stern re buke is hidden in that command. A little girl, six years old, learned the verse, "all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer bel eying, ye shall receive," to say at prayers one morning. A few days after, a lady sent her a book and a pear; in eating the pear she stained the Ntze book, and bringing it to her mamma, said, tearfully, Why, mamma, Jesus promised me the other morning that He would do anythin g I asked him if, I be lieved it; and I've asked him to take this stain out of my b oo k , but He don't do it." Her mamma, thinking that any amount of trouble must b e taken rather than her little one's faith weakened, left her pressing work, and retoving - the stain, dried and pressed the book and handed it to the little girl. " 0h, ,, sa i d she, as her anxious eyes examined th e work," Jesus did not take it out Himself, but he showed mamma how to do it." Though disappointed in her plan of the work being done, she still clung in un shaken faith to Christ's keeping His promise ; and He did. If such simple, unwavering faith i n His word is the true test of disciple Ship, who shall abide the day of His coming ? And let us learn from this little girl's confidence in Jesus to expect the very thing from God that we ask for. There has been much such prayer offered here, and God is answering it as He always answers such prayer. The work is rapidly reaching an older class than is usually wrought upon so early in the work, and many are coming to Christ. Mr. Hamniond has held two meetings at the Female College, where about one hundred and forty young ladies were assembled. The Spirit descended with mighty power in both meetings, and at the close of the last, when those who had found, and those who were seeking Christ, were asked to rise, only four re mained sitting. Dr. Cowles, the Prin cipal, has sowed the seed with faith and expectation, and he is receiving the fruition of the promise, " he that soweth bountifully shall also reap bountifully." There is still a large number of soldiers here ; some of these were at the meeting last night, anxious about their souls. One said he thought he ou. o give himself to Christ; that the e had so wondrously spared belongeVO Him, which seems to be a very general feeling among them. O Christian, the field everywhere is white for the harvest. Wheresoever we will, we may put in tlif sickle and reap. The Holy Spirit stai4s waiting to assist us. Christ says : " The time is short, work while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work." God says, go work in my vineyard. Let us be girded with the power of His might, and in His name go forth to stand up boldly for Jesus, and finish his work. NATIVE RELIGIONS IN CHINA. THE STATE RELIGION Confucianism is a part of what is called the State religion, and a few words must be added to secure com pleteness hi our survey: Some call it a " grand pageant" rather than a religion. It is the grand ceremonial enacted at Pekin by the Emperor and his high officers, and repeated in its subordinate parts throughout the empire. It is mainly a worship of nature, including, however, persons. According to the " Middle Kingdom" there are three grades of,sacrifices. (1.) The great to heaven, earth, tablets of deceased mon archs and gods of the land and grain. (2.) The medium to the sun, moon, names of ancient kings and emperors, Confucius, patrons of agriculture and silk weaving, gods of heaven, earth and the passing year. (3.) The inferior to the patron of the healing art, spirits of the great and good, clouds, rain, wind, thun der,the five mountains,four seas and four rivers, hills, great streams, flags, trivia;, gods of cannon, gates, queen of earth, the north p2le, etc! But the State re ligion has been corrupted from its primi tive simplicity, and now throughout the empire great numbers of wise men and heroes, canonized by emperors, and hosts of spirits supposed to preside over locali ties and things, pure and impure, noble and base, receive a share of devotion. We are informed that the people are 400,000,000, and we are almost tempted to inquire are not the gods as many? c , It seems probable that the original idea ofYShangti, (used for God by some,) worshipped by the early monarchs, was that of a supreme intelligence," but how sadly has this idea been corrupted, if not wholly lost. OTHER SECTS Lautsz, founder of the sect of Tauists, was born about B. C. 600, fifty years before Confucius, in what is now called the province of Hupeh. Tradition says be was born with white Bair and eye brows, having been carried in the womb 80 years. Hence his name, Lautsz (old boy). He received in after years the more dignified title of Laukiun, (venera ble Prince.) He was author of only one work, called "a classic on Reason and Virtue." Tie word Tan means reason, hence we call the Tauists, Rationalists Sometime during his life, Lautsz jour neyed through Central Asia, perhaps both in India and Persia. It is possible that he reached Judea, and some inquisi tive critics imagine a similarity between Tauism and the teachings of Zoroaster, the Jewish Essenes and the primitive Gnostics. According to the venerable Prince, all material forms emanate from Tau. Before the birth of heaven and earth, this Tau, or Reason, moved in the vast silent void. Reason produced Oue, One produced Two, Two produced . Three, and Three made all things. Thus the creative and formative power or principle was a Ternion or Trinity I All good beings, too, will return to the bosom of Reason and tind there an eter, nal repose. If bad, they will be subject to the miseries of successive births and ORA ET LABORA sorrows. Lautsz urges the duties of retirement and contemplation with good works as an effectual means to spiritual purity and a final return to ‘ the bosom of Supreme Reason. His own life was passed in asceticism, and when Confu cius visited him in his old age he sternly upbraided him for his pride, his ambition in collecting disciples, and his seeking civil office. His disciples greatly vitiated his ten ets, and speedily gave them a characters.s. allied to Egyptian magic. They say that their patron was himself an imper sonation of the Venerable Prince, Reason, wilo originated primary matter and the universe, and claim for him three incar nations, i n B. C. 1407, B. C. GOO, [the 'real one,] and a third as late as A. D. 623, when a Shensi man reported his meeting a man who' called himself Laukiun! The stet has greatly degen erated. The priests only are members. They shave the skip, of the head, and coil the rest of the hair in a tuft on the crown. They wear s law.eolored robes, live in temples, study astrology, and profess to be en rapport with spirits. They worship many star spirits, devils, besides the PearlN-Vm peror and the Three Pure Ones. T v are mostly a tribe of cheats, jug g l e and low magicians, with which remark we dismiss them. Budha, or Boodh, founder of the sect of Budhists, was born B. C. 1030, and died B. C. 950, aged SO. Some claim that he was the last avatar of Vishnu, but it is settled historically that he was the son of Suddhodana, king of Magadha, in Bahar, a district of India. Towards the end of his life he received the name of Budha l , or the Sage. In the Chinese Court dialect it is Fuh. Tradition claims that by contemplation he attained per fect purity, and spent his life in teaching his doctrines, which at his death had spread over India. In A. D. GG, the Tauists of China suggested the idea of sending an embassy westward to seek for a wise man of whose advent they had heard. Others say that the embassy was sent in accordance with a saying of Confucius, "the people of the west have a sage." The "Middle Kingdom" sug gests that " this mission may have been excited by some indistinct tidings of the advent and death of Christ.'! But the embassy only reached India and return ed with the books and images of this wretched superstition. Priests only are members of the sect, but the teeming populations of Ceylon. Siam, Burmah and Thibet, with multitudes in Cochin China, China, Mongolia, Manchuria, Corea, Loochoo and Japan, worship its gods, and seek its temporal and spiritual aid through its multiform rites, as occa sion arises, or superstitious feelings ex act. Its temples cover the choice hill tops of the empire, and its sbaven-pated, greasy priests are everywhere plying their lucrative trade with charms, and bells, and chants, in funeral and other services. It is the popular, and by far, most prevalent religious superstition of China, and hence, if spared to continue these notices, we may have occasion frequently to refer to it. SUMMING UP The Chinese pantheon is of vast ex tent. In primitive times it is not impro bable that a single Personal Intelligence, the God of pure Deism, was recognized and worshipped under the name Shangti, (Supreme Ruler. See etymology of God, Webster trnab.) But during long ages the forms of imaginary deity have been multiplying, till now they embrace the very frame-work of the universe :with its real and fancied contents, celestial, stellar, material, spiritual, human, down to the lowest hobgoblin and elfish shape! C. C. B. Felt Caw, Sept. 20, 1865. THE BEGINNING OF A COLLEGE RE- VIVA L. Dr. Jonas King, the veteran missionary to Greece, and now in this country, ielates the history of a revival in Williams Col lege, during his student life there, forty nine years ago. We take the account from a Williamstown letter to th-3 Evangelist. Dr. King says that his room-mate, the late Rev. Sylvester Eaton, who had been pass ing his vacation in Catskill; returned to college, and seemed uncommonly serious and thoughtful. - He was p professor of re ligion, but was genial an'l social, and not distinguished for his activity or spirituality. But. now his mind seemed to be burdened, and he soon declared his feelings. Eaton stated that, just before he left Catskill the Rev.:Dr:Porter, that eminent and excel lent ,man, distinguished for Lis striking, impressive, and laconic sayings. said to him : " Eaton you carry your religion in your pocket, don't you ? You don't seem to let it shine much. It was this pointed saying of Dr. Porter's which produced such an im pression on the mind of young Eaton. He felt that he was in a cold, inactive state; that his light was under a bushel, and he had resolved to arise and shake off this alarming stupidity. As soon as he had returned to college and met King, his room-mate he said so. With the very be ginning of the term, he began his life anew, and he called upon others to' do so. Eaton and King conversed, and prayed, and wept together over their backslidings. Next they visited a senior known for his consis tent piety—Nash Sheldon. Soon a prayer meeting was held every evening. Then it was agreed that each one who attended that meeting should invite some other one to at tend. The next evening the number pre sent was doubled. Soon the meeting was . crowded, and as the result of these personal' efforts, over twenty students were hopefully converted. REAL CHRISTIANS are the resemblances of Christ: and if we love the original, we will also love the copy.
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