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months went by the reformation of life and morals and the steadfastness of the over whelming majority of the converts was be yond denial. Dr. Samuel Irenaeus Prime, in his book, “Five Years of Prayer,” which is an ac count of the progress of the Fulton Street prayer meeting in New York, relates the movement in the United States to that of Ulster as follows: “Thus, it is worthy of being noticed and remembered, the great American revival be gan in 1857—so did the revival in Connor; the one began in the month of September— so did the other; one youth in each of the movements date? his conversion, November, 1856; prayer, fervent, confiding and unceas ing, was and continues to be, the prominent characteristic of the one and of the other; laymen, one or six in the one case, and four in the other, were the prominent agents in commencing, as they continue to be in car rying on, the work in the one country as well as in the other.” In our next article we shall relate some of the many intensely interesting incidents of the revival.
gratulations from Judge Piggott in his cir cuit visitation, and, Roman Catholic though he was, he did not hesitate to connect the improvement in morals with the religious awakening, even if the priesthood as a whole warned their parishioners against having anything to do with what they ascribed to delusions and devils. One poor Roman Catholic who had been brought to some extent under the power of the Holy Spirit heard his priest at Sunday morning mass denounce the whole work as the work of the Devil. When he got outside the chapel he remarked to one of his com panions, “Well, frinds, all I have to say is, if the Divil has done all this there must be a NEW DIVIL; for I’m very sure the ould one wouldn’t do it at all, at all.” Among those who were nominally Prot estants there were also many who, at the beginning at least, looked askance: at the work. Some attributed it to excitement and nervousness. This was especially the case among those who claimed to be learned and philosophical. Whatever excuses there may have been for such a feeling at the begin ning, there certainly was none when as the
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