MTY-FIFTH M¥ TEAP/SSSRMGN 
 
 
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 DISCOURSE 
 
 
 fEEACHED IN GRANYULE. OHIO,! 
 
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 FIRST SABBATH OF JANUARY, 1862, ^l 
 
 BT REV, JACOB LITTLE, 
 
 fiflTOR OK TAR OOJjrfKEGATIONAr; rSESBYTEJUAN CHURCH, 
 
 GRANVILLE: 
 
 .!. E, WYGHE & CO., PBINTERS, 
 
 1852. 
 
TWEmY~SWm M¥ TEiiR'S SM'I 
 PEEACHEK IN GBANVILLE, OHIO, 
 
 ON THE 
 
 FIRST SABBATH OF JANUARY, 1852; 
 
 BY BEV. JACOB LITTLE, 
 
 ?ASTOJl OV THE CONGREGATIONAL PUESEYTERIAN CHORCH. 
 
 FORENOON. 
 
 FSALM LXXVII, 10. 
 
 J will remember the years of the right hand of the Mod 
 High, 
 
 Early superstition connected the right with prosperity and 
 the left with adversity. Birds, and especially eagles seen 
 on the right, denoted successful battles, journeys and other 
 undertakings. This superstition, entering into the formation, 
 of language, gave definition to words and meaning to signs. 
 When Joseph brought his two sons to receive the blessing 
 of his dying father, he placed the elder on the right. But 
 the Patriarch signified the greater future superiority of the 
 younger by placing on him The right hand. Sitting, stand- 
 ing, walking and riding at the right hand were regarded as 
 favor and honor. " Years of the right hand of the Most 
 High" were years which God peculiarly blessed. The 
 writer of the text, in deep affliction, says, " I am so troubled 
 that I cannot speak. Will the Lord cast ofi" forever? Will 
 he be favorable no more? Hath he in anger shut up his 
 tender mercies? And I said, this is my infirmity: but I will 
 remember the years of the right hand of the Most High, I 
 will remember the works of the Lord." Recalling former 
 favors in the day of adversity will assuage sorrow, prevent 
 despair and prepare for future blessings. In the day of luke- 
 warmness, it is profitable to reviev/ revival scenes. Next to 
 
 Price, 10 cents,— 45 cents for five— One dollar per dozen. 
 Postage. One cent any dislaiice under 500 miles. 
 
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 i'ORENOON. 
 
 geeiiig and hearing from friends is to think over their visits. 
 While these annual sermons have been a record of facts, 
 reporting vice as well as virtue, I have particularly described 
 the nine revivals of religion which have occurred in the last 
 twenty-four years. We should remember these nine "years 
 of tfe:e right hand of the Most High." This will make it 
 secessary to shorten the account usually given of the world, 
 nation, state and county. 
 
 THE WOKLD 
 
 Has completed the first year of the second half of the nine- 
 teenth century. The first half brought into existence the 
 application of steam to machinery, the steamboat, the rail 
 road, telegraph, power-press, gas-light, daguerreotype, gun- 
 cotton, chloroform, and the knowledge of new planets. 
 That fifty years achieved as much for the moral world by 
 the advance of education, toleration and benevolent institu- 
 tions. This half century bids fair to do even more for the 
 natural and moral interests of mankind. 
 
 The great "myrtery of iniquity" has missions all over 
 the world without translating the Bible abroad, or allowing 
 people to read it at home. A traveller says, " Not one to 
 fifty can read in the country round Rome." The Pope has 
 ordered " that whosoever is found guilty of bringing into 
 Eome, or trying to carry into Rome, any copy of the word 
 of God in the Italian language, he sha\} be sent to the gal- 
 lies for four years." " He has promised three hundred days 
 of indulgence to those who will pray for the conversion of 
 England and her return ta the Holy Mother Church." At 
 war with this power and other forms of heathenism, there 
 are nearly 3000 protestant foreign missionaries whose 
 churches embrace 333,000 communicants. The papal paper 
 of New York says, " while we are making a great noise 
 about a few converts comi'ig into the church, there are 
 thousands upon thousands leaving it." Their religion is 
 starving a portion of Ireland out of popery. No liquors 
 being allowed at the World's Fair, increasing openings 
 and calls for missionaries and other things, show that the 
 moral aspects of the world are brightening. 
 
 THE UNITED STATES, 
 
 According to the late census, numbers 23,267,498; of 
 whom 13,000,000 are in the free states, 6,000,000 are ii^ 
 slave states, and 3,000,000 are slaves. President Everett 
 says our intemperance anpually costs 120,000,000, burns 
 5,000,000, destroys 30,000 lives, sends 15,000 to priso^n, 
 100,000 children to the poor-house, causes 150 murders, 2.Qft 
 suicides and bequeathes to the country 100,000 orphans. 
 The church spends more for tobacco than for benevolent 
 objects. The IMaine temperance law now takes the lead. 
 
FORENOON. 
 
 The complaint of three citizens procures the search warrant 
 to find liquor, destroy it and fine the owner $20 and costs. 
 He cannot appeal short of $200 bonds and can collect no 
 liquor debt. Bail of |600 is required of those appointed to 
 sell for lawful purposes. The New Hampshire law forbids 
 the manufacture, sale and the collection of liquor debts by 
 creditors living without the state. Sabbath steamboat disas- 
 ters have been numerous the past year. In one period of 
 five Sabbaths, five boats sent into eternity about one hundred 
 souls. The extension of rail roads lessens Sabbath dese- 
 cration. 1851 has completed the Erie road, uniting the 
 Atlantic with the lakes; and though it has cost as much as 
 six months of the Mexican war, it is worth all it cost to the 
 Sabbath. Slavery is more discussed and there is more re- 
 corded testimony against it in the New School Assembly 
 than in any large body in the land. Hence the New School 
 have not 1.5,000 southern members, while the Old School 
 have about 70,000. The Old School majority is mostly 
 from the south. The 1S50 census and the fugitive law 
 prove that few slaves are deserting, and pro-slavery feels tri- 
 umphant. There are in our country; 
 
 120 Colleges, with 917 Teachers and 10,672 Students. 
 42TheoL Sem. withllS " and 1,315 " 
 
 12 Law Sch'ls, with 23 " and 434 " 
 
 36 Medical " with 230 " and 4,564 «« 
 
 Professor Park says there is annually preached in the Uuited 
 States an amount, which, if published, would make 120,- 
 000,000 octavo pages. The American Home Missionary 
 Society has received in its past year |150,940 and em- 
 ployed 1,065 missionaries who have enjoyed 77 revivals of 
 religion and received 6,678 members. 43 mission churches, 
 in 1851, and (in 25 years,) 800, have become able to support 
 their own ministers. The American Board have received 
 $274,902— In 40 years, 15,500,000 and added to the church 
 35,000; making them cost $150 each. The expense dimin- 
 ishing, each reception the past year, cost |130. No slave- 
 holder has been received to their Indian churches during the 
 last seven years. 
 
 THE STATE OF OHIO 
 
 Has 12,297 common schools, taught by 7,924 male, and 
 5,168 female teachers. The new constitution was adopted 
 by a majority of 1,600 and the no license article by a ma- 
 jority of 8,984. 
 
 LICKING COUNTY 
 
 Has 402 common schools, tauglit bj 217 male, and 180 
 female teachers. It was supplied with the Bible in 1849, 
 and the western half with the publications of the Tract 
 Society in 1850 and 1851. Mr. Swift has succeeded Mr. 
 
4 rORKNOOK. 
 
 Beaoii at Homer. Mr. Spclnian, Mr, Rose at Alexandria, 
 Mr. Rose has gone to Locke and McKean is vacant. Hart- 
 ford has dismissed her fifth Oberlin minister. The_y had 
 our articles of faith and are the only church the county 
 has lost by Oberlin. Some years ago they joined an 
 Oberlin association and adopted a drop practice. On the 
 24th of last May, they voted "^ to erase the clause in article 
 VII, 'that God at first created man in a state of rectitude 
 and holiness,' 'to exclude entire the X and XI,' which are 
 the articles on election and saints perseverance, and ended 
 with our last article, thus, "the last article deemed expedient 
 to revise is the XVI, by striking 'out the middle clause," 
 which asserts " that believers in regular church stand- 
 ing only, can consistently partake of the Lord's Supper." 
 The sixth, of their resolutions, passed June 14th, reads: 
 " Resolved, That we will receive to our fellowship and 
 communion as members of the church persons who give 
 evidence that they are true christians, although they cannot 
 conscientiously subscribe to the doctrines set forth in our 
 articles of faith." In this reduction of the articles to a 
 level with Oberlin, the boldest stroke is, striking out the 
 tenth article, which is almest word for word a passage of 
 scripture. 
 
 GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP 
 
 Has been settled and our church organized 46 years, of 
 which twelve have been "years of the right hand of the 
 Most High." With such a year, we have commenced this 
 half century. When I became your Pastor, we had leading 
 opposers whose iriiiuence v,'as suflicient to hold together a 
 clique of men and boys to act against every advance in 
 spiritual religion. The providence of God and converting 
 grace had not entirely annihilated this opposition, before the 
 church was exposed to another evil. For 17 years, aliena- 
 tion arising from discussing slavery, has prevented, shortened 
 or limited revivals of religion. The good work of 1837 
 added to the church 82 young persons, who were hardly 
 received before there was a return to the bone of contention. 
 The revivals of 1840, '43 and '47 added 28, 44 and 23, 
 mostly youth. Only, a portion of the church sympathized 
 with these refreshings from on High. Some contended with 
 a bitter spirit that the church would not and could not be 
 bfessed till it took diiierent ground on the subject of slavery, 
 and in this way committed themselves ag;unst revivals. 
 Tim.e, removals, discipline and desertion to other sects have 
 worn away the asperity of the quarrel. The great majority 
 of the members have ever held firmly to the doctrines of the 
 church, and no appliances could either draw, or drive them 
 from iheir covenant, with God and his neople. While the 
 
Mexican war atni ili;: i^A^.u-sl^^u ^z: C:^}]'\:.':,].>, ,^i.In under 
 discussion, ihe [;' -,i.>l vvidi 
 
 politics to leave r; ;li:i';^s so 
 
 diverted and tiai, '■ ^ ' - 
 
 three only %Aere r. ^ , - .' 
 
 none; and by gradual ditiunuiioi; ;'"rlcd to 
 
 Presbytery last spring but 312. lii; of tlie 
 
 Congress of 1850 so lar gave a quic rus lo quejU; ns oi' public 
 interest that by the connnencement of 1851, very lew in 
 the church were angry or excited on questions of slavery or 
 politics. The temple of Janus was shut, and the way was 
 prepared foi: the coming of the Lord. For four years, in- 
 temperance had been on the increase till the eilorts against 
 licenses in 1860 caused the lide of liquid lire to ebb. The 
 last half of that year, a colporteur of the Tract Society re- 
 sided among us, whose books and visits produced a salutary 
 influence. In September, I returned from a visit to the 
 east with peculiar feelings. Ti'.e associates of my youth 
 had gone to the grave, or ( . ^ . \ the rose and lily to 
 
 wrinkles and gray hairs. 1:: on taught what might 
 
 be e:\pected from the lapse I vv^as shocked at the 
 
 ravages made by advaucii\; - death and most sol- 
 
 emnlj felt that J too was ];:,., .. , .. .^ay. I went into the 
 grave-yard where two centuries oi our family sleep, into 
 the church where my grand-p-arents publicly gave dieir 
 hearts to God, and into its vault where I saw the bones of 
 Whitefield.. I took up his clean white skull and said to 
 snyself, what thougiits once burned in this hollo-vv form? I 
 put my hands on his arms and chest and thought of the 
 emotions and bursts of feeling which then raised and shook 
 these bones. Has eighty years brought the great Whitefield 
 down to this? Is he:- ' ! : :,-::oi:i of such a man? 
 No; this church and tf . :: c :, ; egations are his 
 
 remains. Thougli tiic . c j-^ powerless and so 
 
 very dry, he who onLe , ;:: still lives and Vvdll 
 
 never die. He not onf, .- . .^ _.: /. lHj but he lives in the 
 
 piety and sound theology of the ccrnitry. \?ith imagination 
 full of what met my eyes in the •.aair, I v/alked a ndle and 
 reflected. How soon will what I have seen, be all which 
 will remain of me! i nn:>t g^"^ xo n:y account and there 
 meet my people. lij i ious monument to his 
 
 memory, a monument , _:id the test of time. 
 
 But what have I d ;/.^ . gut of iny responsibility 
 
 and how late it v : ** '.ve and do what ought to 
 
 have been don?.: -. •■- [-'■-''■] --ri my tears 
 
 flowed. I pas::cd ing scenes, 
 
 which made me i:;.;... ...... d.^.. ,•,>._ .._....., . ; o::ert myself 
 
 for the salvation of soq!s till I go hence to be here no more. 
 On mv return home, a portion of the people were alarmed. 
 
O FO -HE NO ON. 
 
 because ihe congregation appeared to be declining. The 
 fast on the first iMonday of January was Vvell attended on 
 both parts ol' the day, and so were the church inquiry maet- 
 ings through the week. The brethren manifested a better 
 state of feeling than usual, and three persons were present at 
 the inquiry meeting for the impenitent. From this time tili 
 May, i wrote bat one sermon. In January, I visited 100 &f 
 our families and fcund feeling enough among scattered indi- 
 viduals to amount to a revival, if it could be brought to- 
 gether, and saw nothing in the way but our delay in carry- 
 ing out certain cases of discipline. The Methodists held a 
 quarterly meeting and the Baptists a series of meetings 
 whicii had their influence in awakening the community. 
 While my mind was thus exercised in New England, the 
 husband of one of our me;nbers was awakened and on the 
 11th of August attended public worship, which he has not 
 since deserted. The iirst Sabbath after my return, he came 
 into the broad aisle and preseiited to God two children in 
 baptism. His distress continued, and peace did not break 
 into his mind till the first Sabbath of February. Another 
 man changed his manner of life and entered upon public 
 and family worship. While these things were calling up 
 the attention of the community and the church vrere per-- 
 forming the duty of discipline, Eev. Mr. Chidlavv^," an 
 agent of the American Sunday School Union came and 
 touk up his subscription on Sabbath, the ninth of February. 
 He preached in the evening and again on Iilonday evening- 
 when the collectors brought in tiie amount subscribed. The 
 audience increasing, he remained till he hnd preached nine 
 eveiiings. I followed him nine e\-enings, and Mr. Kings- 
 bury five, when I went into the pulj it again and continued 
 until we had preached about forty evenings in succession. 
 For about two weeks, we lield very interesting social meet- 
 ings every aftern^^on. Among the thrilling incidents of those 
 exercises was one founded on the dying words of Wilber- 
 force. One of the members about eighty years of age, with 
 sunken eye and trembling voice rose and said that his mem- 
 cry had so faded that he should forget what he was going 
 to say, that he could not remember names and that he had 
 lost the nam.es of one half of the churcli. lie then added 
 with all the emphasis thai liis frail frame would admit, 
 " but one name 1 never forget — (he name of m.y Savior." 
 This was said' in such a manner and to pn audience so full 
 of emotion, that it moved the v.diole Tiouse. For a time, 
 there was preaching in Ibur ciiuiches every evening. There 
 was such a disposition to attend v^^orship that Ihe Pastoi's 
 could not have prevented their assendjling. Darkness, mud 
 and storms could not hinder people from almost universally 
 turning out at the sound of the bell. Within two miles of 
 
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 town the church were nearly all avrakoued. Not a few 
 parents were oliering tiie }ira)-cr of Penuel i"or their children 
 and some nearly exhausted themselves in bearing the case of 
 a son or a daughter before the Lord. These agonizing peti- 
 tions did not long remain unanswered. Most of the male 
 members rose in tiie social meelirgs, made confession, gave 
 their testimony in i'avor of religion, and raeltiiagly invited 
 sinners to repentance. Indiviclaals went to houses, shops 
 and every where to invite siniiers to the gospel feast. Almost, 
 if not quite every body in town, was accessible on the sub- 
 ject of religion and v.'ould give it a respectful hearing. The 
 great mass was melted. I'here was caution rgiinst hurting 
 feelings, harm.ony, weeping, joy and gratitude. For a month, 
 the things of earth sunk to their proper level; and the things 
 of heaven were indeed a reality and rose to the rank which 
 God has given them. There was not only stillness, solem- 
 nity and riveted attention in the house of God, but religion 
 was the meat and drink of men everywhere. It was the all 
 absorbing subject of conversation in taverns, stores and side- 
 walks. Not only young converts were intensely engaged, 
 but those who had walked with God half a century found 
 their minds delightfully and enchantingly wrapt in spiritual 
 tilings. When duty called them to their secular avocations, 
 they felt lost and repeatedly found themselves engaged in 
 prayer. Their minds, instead of being inclined to wander 
 from spiritual things to temporal, unconsciously passed from 
 secubr thoughts to devotion. They, who in the day of 
 declension, had attended social meetings and did other things 
 to keep the coals alive on the altar, now shone with pecul- 
 iar lustre, and nearly all were so ready to aid our social ser- 
 vices that it was often difficult to fnid a place to stop at a 
 seasonable hour-. Here and there a person had got waked 
 up to great seal and self-confidence without being broken 
 down for his sins, or seeming to see his own faults. To 
 guard against strange fire and a spurious work, the peo- 
 ple were shown the appropriate means of genuine revivals. 
 Several of the most interesting meetings were commenced 
 by reading accounts of awakenings under the labors of the 
 Apostles, Edv/ards, Grifiin, Nettleton and the fathers of this 
 church. The protracted meeting began Sabbath Feb. 9th. 
 Feb. 12th, the fourth evening, I invited all such as w^ere de- 
 termined 7101V to seek an interest in Christ, to remain to 
 inquiry meeting. One remained. Saturday, February 16, 
 the seventh evening, twelve remained — one having a hope. 
 After this, inquiry meetings were held every evening. The 
 second Sabbath, Feb. 16, forty-seven remained — two having 
 hopes. The third Sabbath, Februar^y 23, the fifteenth eve- 
 ning, one hundred and twenty remained — fifty-five having 
 hopes. The fourth SabbalLi, ]\Iarch 2, the tv/enty-second 
 
o FOIiKNOON. 
 
 evenin-;. " ' .; and thirty-siv rcinained — sixt}'-nin« 
 
 ^ia\in- : ■ havinji no hopes and twelve children. 
 
 Beix)re cij iHLn ,,;,lv:-" "— s ^\ ■]. hventy-ninth eve- 
 ning, a hope meeting ■, - those that eve- 
 ning in the ^m--:-- ■ .^ -. Thursday^ 
 March 1^, :: . ' : :;cr3 without 
 hope \vc;e : folIo\Ying 
 evenir: ■ :^_ ; now been 
 occu:-;'; P • p^^:''; scholars 
 ?■■■- : .li one hundifcd and thirty. 
 ^- "'-:,': ho began to hope that 
 '^eek : - . It ^vas feared that a 
 comiiic: :3 would scmewhere 
 orr-:: ; v/ork which was so 
 h '• p. One woman said 
 ' skij .[■.,......_ ., , that another day had 
 
 passed M'idr ■: iode oi' baptism. A hearer 
 
 gave as a If. - . .;.e audiences, that Thursday 
 
 ev , iiil ten minutes before ten, that 
 
 ti;-' : :■ cermon vras introduced. The 
 
 next babbaih, a ihiiu oi oe. ' school and a greater 
 
 number of ci'irren-^ l!ian ev^r -nt down to the" creek 
 
 to see the i: ranvilie Intelligencer 
 
 gave as a i he mode of baptism, 
 
 that the "s:i: ^ec^, ii^:; ble discussion of late 
 
 in this tov.n." Tlie v. y turned ofi' from thfe 
 
 greatm-^" :• -^ -;-■ • . _l ^un .eision. Within three. 
 
 days, r .3 on the side-waLks and othei* 
 
 public p. ,..._, ^_, : ■ ■•^I'^-ation giving way to secu- 
 
 lar, and solemnit:, ; :■ minioters went into the 
 
 pulpit and like £e ■ . ; loclis v/ere shorn, tried to ' 
 
 "shake themselves as at cihcr times before." But the spirit 
 v/as gone and tjjey ccidd no longer see the tear of convic- 
 tion and the smile of conversion. Some for a time preached 
 and gave thanks as tho'jgh the good work was still in pro- 
 gress, but declining inrerest and audiences soon exhibited 
 the folly of such pretensions. The shock was most disas- 
 trous to those under conviction and those with trembling 
 hopes. After the l3th of March, I heard of no conversions 
 in town and very few out of it. The Monday evening fol- 
 lowing the first immersions, our inquiry meeting was down 
 to nine persons. V/hen this stop to the work took place, 
 there were souls in a position which they will never again 
 occupy. They were anxious, in jeopardy, and as it were 
 suspended between heaven and hell — almost ready to make ' 
 the surrender: and yet expo^ed to be diverted by anything 
 which should call off attention from the point in hand. At 
 such a time, how important for all to turn neither to the 
 right nor the left; but keep an unv/avering eye on the great 
 
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 bbject before them. When I saw the public mind was di- 
 verted, I did not discuss the mode of baptism; but among 
 other things, read the following from the history of the re- 
 vival of 1828 to call back the atttention to the salvation of 
 sinners. " A Baptist minister, preaching in the next town- 
 ship, north, brought, on the 4th of May, twenty-two con- 
 verts down to Pratt's mill, naar the northern line of this 
 township, to be immersed. Notice spread far and wide and 
 it was said that 1500 persons were present to hear the ser- 
 mon on immersion and see so many go down into the water. 
 The succeeding week, the people lost sight of convictions 
 and conversions to discuss the mode of baptism. The Epis- 
 copalians, occupying our church the following Sabbath, we 
 worshiped in the woods, where one of the sermons contained 
 this paragraph, ' Ever since the 11th of March converts 
 have been coming to our knowledge, two, four, six and eight 
 a week. No week in all this time has passed without con- 
 verts till the last. The past week we have not heard of one. 
 Those who have steadily attended the inquiry meeting are 
 nearly every one with hope. They will soon leave for the 
 church and the inquiry meeting will be deserted. Must the 
 •evival stop here?' An appeal followed, urging the people 
 ;o turn their attention back from matters of minor impor- 
 tance to the salvation of the soul. Eeformers had not, at 
 tliat day, so undermined confidence in preachers, but that we 
 could be believed and obeyed when we spoke the will of 
 God. Right there among the trees, the pious obeyed and 
 turned their hearts to God, and James Mead and Chester 
 Wells, men about forty years of age, were brought under 
 conviction that very day. There being no more discussion, 
 the revival went oh as before. A sermon one month later 
 has the following paragraph, ' four weeks ago this day-j 
 many things seemed to tell me that the last drops of the 
 shower of grace were falling. So far as I could see, men 
 were fast returning to the world. But again the inquiry 
 meeting was filled and sinners have continued to fall before 
 the power of God. Now suppose that Sabbath had beeii 
 the end of the revival, what an amount of good would have 
 been lost! Where would have been the souls that have 
 since been born again?" The people being less wise than 
 in 1828, these things and all I could say did not turn back 
 the current in the community. It is much easier to put in 
 obstacles which will throw the train off the track than to set 
 it back again. It is much easier to throw the apple of dis- 
 cord among a people than to take it away from them. 
 Nothing is more agreeable to Satan and the depraved heart 
 than that which will divert the mind from the great object 
 m the day of revival. While we can offer no excuse for 
 grieving away the spirit, we shall find most of the statistics 
 2 • 
 
10 FORENOON. 
 
 of this discourse will reveal the goodness of God in granting 
 us a year of the right hand of the Most High. No previous 
 revival vi^as so universal in town, but two otliers extended 
 more to all parts of the congregation and brought twice as 
 many into the church. 
 
 This is the twenty-fifth time, I have collected these an- 
 nual statistics from a great variety of persons; and stranga 
 as it may seem, I can think of but six persons vv'ho have 
 refused me their aid. One year ago, two refused to give the 
 amount of their liquor sales, and the questions sent to the 
 College Faculty for the number of students in 1850 and the 
 number of professors of religion, were not answered. The 
 numbers at their boarding house have now been obtained; 
 bu^ fhes questions sent to the clerk of their church for the 
 number of the Sabbath school and church in the township, 
 owing to the opposition of members, were not answered. I 
 will not censure the w^hole for vv'-hat may be the fault of a 
 part; nor allow myself to think that these long tried College 
 professors, or the majority of their church, would not do 
 such a favor. I w^ish to reprove those who have caused 
 these failures vv^ithout hurting the feelings of a single one of 
 the more generous. Not merely to get favors next year; fof, 
 becoming tired of this laborious gathering of facts, I may 
 never repeat it. And not for the loss to this serm.on, for, 
 had you generously furnished your part, courtesy would have 
 excluded a part of its matter. But, I hate to feel that yqu 
 or any body will deny so small a favor. You should furnish 
 the numbers, 
 
 1. Because, influential men in your College and church 
 have expressed themselves in favor of the moral tendency of 
 these statistics; and once a proposition was made to join me 
 in them, which I did not refuse in case you would furnish 
 half of the materials. 
 
 2. Because, you would remove the apprehension that 
 close communion, when carried out, wdll be a complete papal 
 nonintercourse between you and other sects. 
 
 3. Because, my printed sermons will shovs^ that no invidi- 
 ous use is made of your numbers. Your Sabbath schools 
 and church are not reported separate from others, but added 
 to the whole number of scholars and members in the town- 
 ship. 
 
 4. Because, it is easy for you to furnish them. 
 
 5. Because, you, like us, often want favors. Only one 
 being in the universe is above dependence, and He is not 
 above doing favors. Mj hearers paid to your old meeting 
 house, $309; to the new, $228; and to your College, $531. 
 At least f 1,068. (Do you ever pay back any thing?) The 
 sum to the College was regarded as important, if not essen- 
 tial to its coming to this place. Is it too much, to let them 
 
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 11 
 
 annually hear what proportion of the students are professors 
 of religion? Whenever you make improvements, with what 
 face can you send your solicitors among a people for whom 
 you will not do as much as this? For a quarter of a cen- 
 tury, I have enjoyed a very happy intercourse with ten or 
 twelve ministers, v/ho successively have occupied your pul- 
 pit. Knowing that I was posted up on facts and history, 
 they have often asked for things in my possession — (not 
 half so often as I wished.) My studies have been inter- 
 rupted a hundred times to furnish from my library, or brain, 
 aid to the pursuits of the students. I make no righteousness 
 of these things. Any decent man would do as much, I 
 shall continue them, whether you give numbers or not. In- 
 deed, as I grow older, I hope to grow more, accommodating. 
 Three weeks of e}diausting labor once prepared a new 
 year's sermon, from which I furnished a Baptist with the 
 leading statistics. I w^as told he made them turn the vote 
 which brought the College to Granville — a great advantage 
 to you. If those statistics were never exhibi'ted in the body 
 that located the College, the mere fact that ;:they were fur- 
 nished at request, should make you ready to furnish the 
 numbers I ask. 
 
 THE MATERNAL ASSOCIATION 
 
 Has failed in two monthly meetings. 
 
 THE BIBLE 
 
 Is possessed by every family in the township. The lectures 
 have been on the last eleven chapters of Exodus. 
 
 SABBATH SCHOOLS, 
 
 In the Methodist, Welch Methodist, Welch Baptist, Welch 
 Presbyterian, Episcopalian and our Church, (without reck- 
 oning the Baptist school,) number 438; 168 between the 
 ages of 6 and 21 attend no Sabbath school. Our Sabbath 
 school has 140 scholars marked punctual, contained in 12 
 classes of males and sixteen of females embracing 237 
 scholars. Adding 35 in the infant school, our .whole num- 
 ber is 272. Every lesson has been committed to memory 
 hy 132—69 more than m 1851. 
 
 Moses Goodricii, 
 Warren Ro;:e, 
 Martin Luther Root, 
 Elam Farlr.er, 
 Albert Little Bancroft 
 Isaac Davis, 
 Francis M. Philbrook, 
 Geo. Bradford Wliiting 
 Samuel Dilley, 
 Daniel Ros'e, - 
 William Rose, 
 .Alfred M. NicoU, 
 
 Warner Devenaey, 
 Albert Everett, 
 Thomas Henry Biead, 
 John Goodrich, (till he 
 
 died,) 
 Luther Rose, 
 Asa James Moore, 
 Edo-ar Wright, 
 Srnith xWoore, 
 Cyras Williams, 
 George Little, 
 Wm. Thompson Little,, 
 
 Henry Little Everett, 
 Edwin V/right, 
 Anson Ackley, 
 Lucy Helen Wright, 
 George Thomas Jonesj 
 Leonard Bushnell, 
 William Wright, 
 Lester Clemens, 
 Francis E. Wright, 
 Edward Wright, 
 Frederick Woodruff", 
 Mark Hi liver. 
 
12 
 
 Mary Abbott, 
 Maltha Sarah Bancroft^ 
 Emily Devenney, 
 Laura L. Goodrich, 
 Ann Matilda Griffith, 
 Jane Amelia Griffith, 
 Sarah Linn, 
 Caroline Parry/ 
 Sarah Frances Parry, 
 Saraantha Wright, 
 Hannah Goodrich, 
 Amelia Bancroft, 
 Julia Linn, 
 
 Mary Melissa Bancroftj 
 Lydia Carrel, 
 Malvina Hiliyer, 
 Mary Anna Walker, 
 Angeline Walker, 
 Philena Rose, 
 Harriet Twining, 
 Selma Rose, 
 Orlinda Moore, 
 Mary Fuller, 
 Emeliue Plillyer» 
 Susan Mower, 
 Harriet Abbott, 
 Lucy Emeline Griffin, 
 SamanUia E. Bailey, 
 Mary L. Whiting, 
 Ann Eliza Robertson, 
 Ruhamah Barrett, 
 Ellen Devenney, 
 Julia Abigail Bancroft, 
 
 One class of ten good girls was perfect, or they had per- 
 fect mothers. Every one was punctual every Sabbath and 
 learned every lesson. Eight of the infant school failed np 
 Sabbath to say a verse. 
 
 Caroline Stevens, ] William Bancroft, L Edward P. Linnell, 
 
 Henry M. Wright, [ Emma Griffith, Amanda 0. Wright, 
 
 Alva A. Walker, | Theodore Wright, 
 
 The school has spent the year on the catechism illus- 
 trated by Baker's questions. The 107 answers have been 
 repeated at once without missing- more than two words by 
 Mary Melissa Bancroft, Sarah Bancroft, Hannah Goodrich, 
 Laura Lavina Goodrich and Lucy Little. 
 
 TWENTY-FIVE SCHOOL TEACHERS, 
 
 All but four, profesfors of religion, are within a mile of 
 this place instructing 572. scholars, 22 more than last year. " 
 At the commencement of the fall term, Mr. R. A. Sawyer 
 succeeded Mr. E. C. Scudder in the male Academy, which 
 has had during the term 68 different scholars, of whom 10 
 are professors of religion. The Episcopal Seminary has 
 had the past year 169 different scholars, of whom 30 ob- 
 tained hopes in the revival. The female Academy has had 
 189 different scholars, of whom 36 obtained hopes and 46, 
 are professors of religion. The College, three Academies^ 
 
 FORENOON. 
 
 Lucy Little. 
 Melancthon R. Wright, 
 Mrs. Silence Stark, 
 Mrs. Nancy Wood, 
 Mary Eliza Merriman, 
 Emma Rose, 
 Margaret Jane RodgerS; 
 Lavina L. Worly, 
 Olive Stark, 
 Harriet Maria Wood, 
 Mary Jane Bailey, 
 Mrs. Marion B. Griffith, 
 Elizabeth Griffith, 
 Eunice Little, 
 Mrs. Minerva Carter, 
 Jane Fuller, 
 Harriet Statira Cluff, 
 Lucilla Linn, 
 Matilda Rose, 
 Catharine McBride, 
 Sarah Ann Wright, 
 Agnes Eliza Howe, 
 Anna Baker, 
 Helen Abbott, 
 Martha Hobert, 
 Austa Lavina Foote, 
 Maria Jane Mower, 
 Hannah Davis, 
 Anna R. Davis, 
 Clarissa Rose, 
 Lucy W. Baneioft, 
 Phebe R. Moore, 
 
 Harriet Prouty, 
 Ellen Belinda Carrel, 
 Rebecca Carmichael, 
 Laura Carmichael, 
 Harriet I. Whiting, 
 Lydia Baker, 
 Clarissa E. Bailey, 
 Emeline Rose, 
 Lucetta Carmichael, 
 Sarah Carmichael, 
 Caroline Linnell, 
 Jane Hannah Mead, 
 Lois Pratt, 
 Louisa Pratt, 
 Deborah Fuller, 
 Martin Loy Barrett, 
 Julia Ann Hiliyer, 
 Angeline Robinson, 
 Laurinda Woodward, 
 Malvina Graves, 
 George Wright, 
 Eve Williams, 
 Ann Morgan, 
 Mrs. Deborah FulleTp 
 Mrs. Chloe Rose, 
 Mrs. Lucy Graves, 
 Mrs. Lydia Baker, 
 Mrs. Hannah Bancroft, 
 Mrs. Laura Linnell, ' 
 Ellen Caldwell. 
 Mrs. Mary NicoU, 
 Martha Baker. 
 
FORENOOW. 
 
 13 
 
 tQwn district, south east district, Lancaster, upper Loudon, 
 porth street and Welch Hill, had prayers, last winter, last 
 summer and this winter, Centreville, last winter and last 
 summer; Columbus, last winter and this winter; Berg, last 
 winter, and lower Loudon was prayerless throngh the year. 
 The township furnished seventy-eight or more teachers, of 
 whom 65 prayed in school. This congregation furnished 
 63 teachers, of whom 46 prayed in schooL 
 
 THl PERIODICALS 
 
 Taken by the township are 643; political, 142; religious, 
 read by 292 families, 371; religious read bj our connexion, 
 259. 
 
 Day Springs, - - - - 
 American Messengers, - 
 Journal of Missions, - - 
 American Missionarys, 
 Missionary Heralds, - - 
 Moral Reform, - - - 
 Anti-Slavery, - - - - 
 Maternal, ----- 
 
 New York Observers, 
 Millerite, - - - - 
 New York Evangelists, 
 Oliio Observers, - - 
 Central Watchmen, - 
 Oberlin Evangelists, - 
 Universalist, - - - 
 
 TEMPERANCE 
 
 Lost ground for four years previous to the last part of 1851, 
 in which we consumed 3,360 gallons of spirits, 41 of wine 
 and 2,755 of beer. In 1851 the spirits were 1,406 gallons; 
 1,924 less than in 1850. The wine is 3 gallons more and 
 the beer and ale 1,838 less. Intemperance would be nearly 
 banished did the law provide something better than a pe- 
 cuniary penalty which cannot hurt the most of those who 
 make drunkards. The Granville division of the sons of 
 temperance has died a natural death. The lower tavern has 
 fallen into hands who have stopped the sale of spirits. 
 Mr. Granger, the proprietor and keeper of the Hotel, though 
 his license was not out for months, stopped the sale of all 
 that intoxicates on the 3d of March. In the vote on the 
 Constitution, the township gave 283 votes for License, Noj 
 and 2.1 for License, Yes. 
 
 TPIE SABBATH 
 
 Is not openly violated by 1,327 adults, 89 more than a year 
 ago. Still some love to show their Sabbath breaking by 
 sitting about in public places, or collecting dens of kindred 
 spirits in private rooms. 
 
 PASTORAL, VISITAXION 
 
 Makes it my duty to visit all the families that regularly 
 visit me on the Sabbath. I have visited 176 families. 
 
 FAMILY WORSHIP 
 
 Is sustained in the township by 231 of the 408 families; 53. 
 
14 FORENOON. 
 
 more than last January. Of this 231, 112 worship in this 
 house, 15 more than last new year. The town has 171 
 families — 101 praying families, 32 more than last new year. 
 Our church have in town 43 praying families, 11 more than* 
 last January. 
 
 SOCIAL WORSHIP 
 
 Is sustained in seven meetings. The monthly concert, Sab- 
 bath and Wednesday conference, Centreville prayer-meeting, 
 maternal association, town and academy female prayer meet- 
 ings. The hope meeting and convert's male and female 
 prayer meetings were held once a week through the three 
 spring months. 
 
 SACKED MUSIC 
 
 Has been taught 24 evenings to adults and 24 Saturday af- 
 ternoons to 125 children, of whom all but two learned to 
 sing. Fifty singers punctually sit in the choir, who, with 
 three or four exceptions, are now in the church. In the 
 revival, they often numbered sixty and the style of their 
 music rising with their religious emotions, often overpowered 
 such as have ears for- sweet sounds. 
 
 PUBLIC Vv'-OF.SHIP 
 
 Is attended by 1,345 adults — 101 more than before the revi- 
 val. I have failed to fill no appointment from ill health for 
 15 years and for as long, I am not aware that the pulpit has 
 been vacant a Sabbath. In 1850, I preached twenty-fanr 
 sermons on the attributes of God, and in 1851, sixteen, on 
 other parts of the divine character. 
 
 No 44. General Proof of the Trinity, 
 
 45. Humanity of Christ, 
 
 46. Christ superior to man, 
 
 47. His Supreme Divinity proved 
 
 by Divine ISames, 
 48. By Lis Attributes and 
 
 Works, 
 49. By the Worship paid to 
 
 him, 
 50. By the Character of hi 
 
 Friends and Foes, 
 
 THE CHURCH 
 
 Contained in the seven leading sects, cannot be numbered, 
 as we have not the Baptist numbers. The whole number of 
 professors of religion in the township is 722 and there are 
 47 apostates; leaving 797 impenitent adidts, of whom 101 
 were baptised in infancy. Our church numbers 
 
 Unconverted adult children in the 1 Our youngest, Lucy W. Bancroft 15 
 
 township, "53 | Males, 126 
 
 Infant Baptisms, 22 I Females, 246 
 
 Adult Baptisms, 12 | Within the township, 317 
 
 Our oldest member is Elias Gil- Witliout the townsliip, 55 
 
 STuan, a^ed 81 Youth in the Cliurcii, 91 
 
 No. 51. Objections to the Divinity'of 
 Christ, 
 
 52. The Holy Ghost, 
 
 53. Predestination. Introduction, 
 
 54. Explanatioi., 
 
 55. Objections, 
 
 56. Difliculties in rejecting it, 
 
 57. Proved from Pieason, 
 
 58. Proved from Facts, 
 
 59. Proved from Scripture. 
 
FORENOON. 
 
 15 
 
 Male youil), IS I The number, Inst January, was 316 
 
 Members not worshiping v, ilh iip.'JI | 'I'h-^ l'iiiii. excceclmg the loss 56, 
 
 Loss,l)y diymissiLinS; by doatii ! : 1'3 j n is jiow ■ 372 
 
 Gain, by letter 12, liy proles- ^ I 
 
 sionSG; 68 j 
 
 Most of the 24, who have not worshipped with us once 
 a .month, are intinn, or living without the limits of any 
 sister church. 
 
 Mindwell Graves, 
 Polly LLimpson, 
 Cindcrilla Case, 
 Ashley A. Bancroft, 
 Samuel W. Rose, 
 Polly Wells, 
 Mary Ann C. Johnston 
 Erixeua Phelps, 
 
 Rachel Gilman, 
 Mary PiLtsford, 
 Samantha Clark, 
 Anna Pratt, 
 Ann Jones, 
 Fanny Wright, 
 Ezra Holoomb, 
 Phebe Bancroft, 
 
 Henry C, Mead, 
 Lucetta Derby, 
 Almene Conklirt, 
 William R. Dodge, 
 Susan Little, 
 Emma K. Little, 
 Mary Dibble, 
 Mary J. Johnson, 
 
 The eight, dismissed to other churches, are 
 
 Sarah G Tucker, 
 Statira Andrews, 
 Emily Palmer, 
 
 Mary Dodge, 
 Erarna Biockway, 
 Mercy Fassett, 
 
 Mary Jane Bollinger, 
 Joseph S. Thrall. 
 
 Omitting one with a returned letter, the received by cer-. 
 tificate will be 11, 
 
 Harriet B. Clemons, 
 Charles W. Gunn, 
 Elizabeth Gunn, 
 John F. FoUett, 
 
 Fidelia FoUett, 
 Austin FoUett, 
 Sally Follett, 
 Jane Hopkins, 
 
 Slannah Clark, 
 Strong Clark, 
 J. G. Irwin, 
 
 There were many promising converts under 15 years of 
 age. Fourteen of the 56 received are males; ten are 13 
 years of age; seven 16; seven 17; five 18; seven 19; three 
 20; four 21; two 22; two 23; two 25; one 29; one 31: one 
 
 32j one 35; one 40; one 48 and one 49, 
 
 Aliraham Walker, 
 Ebenezer Partridge, 
 Henry Clay Page, 
 Griffith Griffith, 
 Henry K. W. Barrett, 
 Francis M. Carter, 
 William A. Hutson, 
 Walter L. Clemons, 
 Rollin A. Sawyer, 
 George T. Jones, 
 Martin L. Barrett, 
 Lorenzo E. Skinner, 
 William Vandervoort, 
 Mary Partridge, 
 Harriet M. Wood, 
 Mary W. Atkinson, 
 Josephine Barrett, 
 Eunice P. Thrall, 
 Helen Abbott, 
 
 Maria F. Mo\ver, 
 Jane J. Wells, 
 Laurinda \¥oodward, 
 Martha Flobart, 
 MnrgaretJ. Rodgers, 
 Elizabeth J. Little, 
 Elizabeth Prouty, 
 Olive Prouty, 
 Sarah Wright, 
 Lu cilia Linn, 
 Matilda Rose, 
 Matilda W. Whiting, 
 Anna Baker, 
 Sarah M. Wilson, 
 Ann Daniels, 
 Julia Ann: Hillyer, 
 Louisa V. Philbrook. 
 Mary E. Merriman, 
 EUzabeth A. Bancroft, 
 
 Ellen B. Carrel, 
 Qaroline E. Linnellj, 
 Lovma King, 
 Orlene F. Wells, 
 MaryL. Babb, 
 Mahala Skinner,, 
 Ann R. Davis, 
 Mary Evans, 
 Mary Ann Daris, 
 Phebe R. Mootc, 
 Amanda A. Clark, 
 Mary B. Fosdic, 
 Lucy W. Bancroft, 
 Agnes E. Howe, 
 Florilla King, 
 Rebecca Carmichael, 
 Clark Fuller, jr., 
 Estella S. Bancroft, 
 
 This church has seen four good days. In one day of 
 1828, 46 were received to the church; in one of 1832, 67', 
 in one of 1837, 74; and in one of 1851, 50. The last was 
 Thursday the fourth of September, at the time of the meet- 
 ing of Presbytery. There was a lull attendance of members 
 
16 FORENOONc 
 
 and the exercises of the first two days were interesting. Oil 
 Wednesday evening, was the concert closing the children's 
 singing sch6ol. The seats of the choir were occupied by 
 125 of them and the rest of the house above and below waS 
 so full that many stood around the windows on the outside. 
 By the time they had sung fifteen or twenty pieces, the au- 
 dience were highly excited, if not electrified. Rev. H. 
 Little and Rev. A. Duncan put forth their best efforts at 
 animated address, to sustain the emotion which had been 
 raised. The audience retired delighted and enraptured witH 
 what the voices of children are able to accomplish. Thurs- 
 day morning, our streets were filling with strangers and the 
 forenoon exercises deepened interest and increased solemnity. 
 By one o'clock, the lower part of the house was filled with 
 communicants and the gallery with spectators. After sing- 
 ing " Ye men and angels! witness, now," I read Dr. Coo- 
 ley's letter which produced a thrilling effect. His having 
 organized this church out of his own; his allusion to touch- 
 ing incidents in our history; his expressions of continued 
 interest in his western children; his salutations to the 
 church, the Presbytery and the young converts, and espe- 
 cially his promise to hold a sympathizing meeting the same 
 afternoon, were so apostolical, so appropriate and so raelt- 
 ingly affectionate that few hearts could remain unmoved. 
 Though we cannot now enter into the spirit of that day, the 
 letter is worth a second reading. 
 
 "East Granville, Aug. 25, 1851, 
 M)j dear friend and Irother: — I return you my sincere thanks for the. 
 invitation you have given me to be present with you on the first Thursday 
 in September next. I can think of no occasion, on this side of the heav- 
 enly rest, in which I should take a more deep and delightful interest, 
 than to see the company of yuung converts in your congregation come out 
 from the world and subscribe with their hands unto the Lord. "Who ai'e 
 these that fly as clouds and doves to their windows?" With some hop^s 
 that I might be with you, I prepared a sermon for the occasion, but th'e 
 feeble health of my dear wife seems to be an indication of Providencei, 
 that I cannot be with you. May the Lord be with you. From the day in! 
 which we organized the church of which you are Pastor, and from the 
 painful day, when the pilgrims bade us farewell, amidst the prayers and 
 tears and benedictions of parents and friends, we have watched the dir 
 vine dealings with you with mingled emotions of anxiety, gratitude and 
 joy. The company, with one of our most active deacons at their head, 
 comprised a part of our church who were distinguished for intelligence 
 and spirituality, the best portion of our choir of singers, and not a few of 
 our industrious and virtuous citizens. From year to year, we have dis- 
 missed and added numbers to your communion. It is grateful to add that 
 these losses, though painful, have been in some measure repairea, by the 
 heavenly refreshings which we have enjoyed. It is equally grateful to 
 add also, that our loss has been the blessed means of erecting the standard 
 of the cross in the centre of your State, and of extending the borders of 
 Zion. The pilgrims began right. Said Judge Rose in a letter, "the first 
 Sabbath after our arrival, it was notified that we should hold a meeting in 
 the woods, where there were not a dozen trees cut down, and to my aston- 
 ishment there assembled 93 precious souls." It was stated to me, at the 
 time of my visit with you some seventeen years ago, that worship on the 
 Sabbatl had neve» been inteimitted in a single instance. It has given utf 
 
FORENOON. 
 
 17 
 
 ^TTeat consolaUon to liedr that you have not been passed bv in the precious 
 and refreshing visitations of the Holy Spirit. The wdnders of Disrme 
 ffi-ace which were displayed among you at the commencement of the year, 
 have led us to exclaim " wliat hath God wrouglit?" You speak of bap- 
 tism of infants as one portion of your services Thursday. 1 have sec» 
 the special blessiiTg of God upon 'this divine ordinance. 1 can speak of a 
 whole fanriUi of nini' children in 'heaven. I baptised them in infancy. 
 They passed o'ff, one after another, in early life, leaving consoling eri- 
 dence, that to die was gain. Other e^'idence in point, my ministry of 5S 
 years has furnished, in abundance, of the covenant faithfulness of the Al- 
 mighty. And i'f this should be my last opportunity, dear brother, of ad- 
 dressing vou; permit me to charge you most earnestly to exhort believing 
 parents to bring their children early to baptisrij. Present my affectionate 
 and chrisiiau salutation to the church, and to the cmnpany of young con- 
 verts in your congregation, and accept the same for yourself and for th« 
 brethren in the niiVmnry who maybe present with you. " The Lord ble»B 
 you ar.d t.eep you." Though absent, 1 shall be present v/ith you in 
 spirit, I shill call a ineetiiig of our church'to be attended on Thursday 
 afternoon, September, 4th, and may our supplications and penitential 
 confessions meet at the ■same throne of grace through the atoning blood of 
 'the Redeemer. And may we all meet at last, 
 
 "Where congregations ne'er break up, 
 
 Aud Sabbatlis have no end." 
 -1 remain y-our lirotlier in the bonds of the Gospel, 
 
 IlEv-. JAC03 Little. TIMOTHY M. COOLEY." 
 
 This was a happy introduction to an occasion of high 
 a,nd solemn intei'est. The candidates now came into the 
 broad aisle, filling it from the communion table to the front 
 <loor. Though they had read and asserted their belief in 
 the articles of faith before propounding, they were now read 
 and explained. The 13 baptized were shov^^n what they 
 expressed by receiving the rite, and the rest, how they 
 owned their baptism- in now professing their faith in Christ. 
 All were then shown wdiat they promised God and the 
 church in adopting the covenant. The church, by standing, 
 spoke the receiving clause, and seats were found for the new' 
 members a^Daong the coram-unic?nts. An address was made 
 to the parents of ten children who were dedicated to God 
 by baptism. The oldest member of Presbytery, with ut- 
 terance indistinct from emotion, offered the next prayer. As 
 brethren proceeded to the communion service, the voice often 
 trembled and paused from deep feeling. When the closing 
 doxology was sung, the additional strength of strangers. 
 Presbytery and new members reminded 'its of the grand 
 chorus which will be sung "unto Him that sitteth upon the 
 throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever." 
 
 The revival not only added members to the church from 
 without, but from within. Some members are different from 
 what they were before. Much bitterness has passed away, 
 and there is more harmony than has existed since 1835. 
 Granville felt the propriety of Thanksgiving day and at the 
 suggestion of the Episcopal clergyman, the Intelligencer 
 published the agreement of citizens to close their shops and 
 the day has never before been so universally observed. 
 
18 
 
 FORENOONo 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS. 
 
 Obferlin College, - - - - - -----fg 
 
 A meetinghouse in Indiana, ...... ^ jg 
 
 Colonization Society, ---•---.-. 25 
 
 Christian Union Society> - - - - -- .- . ^g 
 
 American Education Society, - . -- -- . - . 44. 
 
 Bethel .Society, --------- 50 
 
 American Tract Society, -----..- 59 
 
 American Missionary Society, 55' 
 
 American Sunday School Union, .-,---. 34 
 
 Female Academy, (Legacy of Mrs. Cook,) - - - - 150 
 
 American Home Missjonary Society, - - - - - 153 
 
 Am. Board of Missions. J. S. Thrall', Rev. A. A. Sturges, his -wife and 190 
 
 Total, - - - - - - - - $898 
 
 Female Academy o"4ved last January, - - . . 2,925 
 
 Eeduced in 185], - ... ' . - .. - . 175 
 
 Debt still remaining, - - - - . . - 2',750 
 
 J,meric.an Board, the last five years, - . _ 1,088 
 
 American Missionary Society, the last five years, - - 319 
 
 Both of them, the last five years, - . . . 1,407 
 
 Am. Board the five years previous to '42 - - - 1,773 
 
 Thus missions have lost by -division, ... 355 
 
 We gave to foreign missions, in '40, - . - . 4.0O 
 
 We gave to foreign missions, in '50, - - - - 237 
 
 Benevolence has lost by division, - - - - 163 
 
 And all that we are now more able to give than v.-e were ten years ago. 
 THE VICKS, 
 
 In spite of the revival, still retain 30 dfinking families, 177 
 praj'erless families and 191 that read no religious paper. 
 We have consumed 1,406 gallons of spirits, and have 168 
 children Avithout the Sabbath school; 188 Sabbath breakers; 
 111 drinkers; 170 neglecters of public worship; 133 swear- 
 ers; 41 card players; 55 dancers and 324 consumers of to- 
 bacco. The consumption of spirits "has diminished 1,P64 
 gallons; drinking families, 22; pi'ajerless families, 66; famiilies 
 reading no religious paper, 55. The devotees of the vices, 
 generally, have diminished the past year. At the close of 
 the revival, with one exception, the owners of our six stores, 
 the keepers of the post and telegraph oiiices, the magistrates 
 and town council vvere supposed to be christians, and there 
 was not a rich man in tovvai, nor a dozen worth a thousand 
 dollars, who were without hope of having passed from 
 death to life. Public sentiment was never so ready to sus- 
 tain the authorities in suppressing every vice and disorder. 
 For years our place has been disgraced by the nocturna 
 disturbances of a few trifling young persons. The fining 
 of three and sending four to jail has given the town a de- 
 gree of order which it has not experienced for a quarter of a 
 century. 
 
 As we retire from the house of God, let cur hearts be 
 filled with gratitude that we have been spared another year, 
 and that i\. has been a "3 ear of the right hand of the Most 
 High." Omniscience has examined our lives infinitely more 
 correctly and minutelj^, and seeing all our sinsj demands im- 
 mediate repentance and reformation. 
 
TWENTY-FIFTH NEW YEAR'S SERMON. 
 
 AFTERNOON. 
 
 PSALM LXXVII, in. 
 / will remtmhtr the years of the right hand of the Most 
 High. 
 
 It was assumed in the former part of the day, that a year 
 of revival was a "year of the right hand of the Most High," 
 A large portion of the forenoon exercise was an account of 
 the revival of 1851. Besides practically noticing the facts 
 detailed in the forenoon, it is my custom to discuss at length 
 some point involved in the history of the past year. It was 
 the " Free Church" in the 1850 sermon. The reasons why 
 New School men should not makb another division in the 
 family of Christ, are growing stronger and stronger, as slave- 
 holding members are diminishing and anti-slavery action is 
 becoming more decisive. Many more New School judica- 
 tories are behind the times on temperance than on anti- 
 slavery. If anti-slavery should lead some from the church; 
 tem.perance should others, and the rest of the christian graces 
 should lead off others till there is not a man in the church 
 this side of perfection,. The reasons of that sermon should 
 have still more weight with Congregationalists who sustain 
 only neighborhood relations to the Presbyterian church. 
 Our religion does not require us to move away, or refuse all 
 neighborly intercourse, because some things in their families 
 are not as they should be. The argument last January was 
 a^gainst indolent postures of prayer. Neither fashion, cus- 
 tom, nor time, can make it right, respectful, or reverential, 
 for persons in health to address the Majesty of heaven sit- 
 ting in their seats, or lying in their beds. As the church is 
 the highest institution, and prayer the highest duty, it is 
 not strange that Satan should wish to put out these two eyes 
 of religion, by thrusting division into one and drowsiness 
 into the other. The subject claiming a place in this dis- 
 course and involved in the history of 1851, is, the time 
 which should elapse between conversion and profession. 
 Som.e sects do not pretend to wait till men are born againj 
 before they receive them to the communion. They, who 
 believe regeneration to be a prerequisite, differ widely as to 
 the time necessary to gain evidence of it. While such are 
 tha ever varying circumstances of society and the subjects 
 
20 AFTERNOON. 
 
 of grace, that no universal rule can be fixed, yet there cart 
 be some general principle of action. Before leaving New 
 England, my opinion was made up against hasty admissions, 
 which was strengthened by seeing what western churches 
 suffer by the practice. The first convert after m}^ arrivfJ in 
 1827, was a daughter of Captain Chester. Ke wished to 
 have her received immediately into the church. I felt com- 
 pelled to give him my reasons for delay. When converts 
 began to multiply in 1823, I felt it my duty to take a public 
 stand. At the clo^zs Ol pirjlic worship one Sabbath, I gave 
 reasons why noa? ought to be examined till the third, nor 
 received till the fourth month alter conversion. Some were 
 shocked, and some trembled for consequences; but such was 
 the v/eakness of our cause and the gaod state of feeling, 
 that none opposed. During nine revivals in 24 year5, we 
 have in no case-proceeded faster than the above named period, 
 and lately not so fast. In 1S40, the subjects vvere converted 
 ia January and received in April, In 18-13, they v/ere 
 converted in April and received in September. In '47 thej 
 were conve:';cd ia the spring and received m October. ' tn 
 1S51 they \;- "':?d beibre the 13th of March and re- 
 
 ceived in S: . The majority now believe that we 
 
 receive fast enough, and this belief is especially strong 
 when we have cases of discipline. But when a proselyting 
 spirit seizes the fruits of a revival, some think that we are 
 not only iiinocent of the common failing, but are on the op- 
 posite extreme. There might be-such an extreme, and v/e 
 should not be too slow because others are too fast. Did the 
 interests of religion permit, it would be much easier, and 
 our accessions would be much larger, to admit as fast as 
 men begin to hope, rather than to wait, v*'atch over and in- 
 struct them three or six months. Published accoujits of 
 revivals are often as follows: " We had a protracted meet- 
 ing, during which, at the close, or the Sabbath after, we 
 received 20, or 50, to the church." Is this the way to 
 build the church with such materials as the exigencies of 
 the times demand? As it comes up every revival, I will 
 notice the arguments in favor and against hasty admissions. 
 It is argued in favor, 
 
 I. We may he deceived if we do ivait. 
 
 An artful man can deceive us at the end of three, or six 
 raonths. This argument is based on the ground that Vv'e have 
 nothing to fear but designed deception. Our great danger 
 arises from the self deceived. We do not pretend that any 
 such period as six months will detect every false hope. 
 But facts show that it is time enough to reveal not a few 
 stony ground kearers. While it is possible to wait too lon^, 
 and while no waiting will make a perfect church; it is 
 vastly important to keep out the ungodly whose ch&racter 
 
iiPTERNOON. 21 
 
 ^■{■i 1 be c' \ploiod in n. few monll s. One bid man in the 
 vh ucli di 5, I 1 ) 1 n h)n (u uiik' o </ of it. 
 
 n [nicii cl oi on i Iih joi converts. 
 
 M -^ \ ' I ^ , oi Ihi 1 ' \ ou thfjw them into 
 tae 1 ' 1 1 (' 1 ( e /o you take thern 
 
 ba^k 1^ tint \ (■ depiUv. them of the at- 
 
 te 1 cesiary to their spiritual growth, 
 
 i 1 e ' ii hopes, and never 
 
 II h ' i !i 1 i ^5 ^lin credible evi- 
 
 Ln 1 t * 1 ^ Jip lursery than in 
 
 th,. L ' 1 , h c tib have their hop« 
 
 11 ' ] o 1 eetings and leo- 
 
 ii 1 u I to i ^ 1 lOiv path. It is as 
 
 ^ ' tn^ *-o 'nth nursery as for 
 
 \u \\^ 1 e=! '^ e they better pre- 
 
 p 1 ( e I c o{ ic. The story of 
 
 ill 1 T L 1 \Vc 01^ 1 err hj too soon 
 
 L i cl 1 ^ 1 L 1 It ioes ccnverts no 
 
 1'^ lat) ^ mo ^ I*^ (, n \vl ^t is implied in & 
 
 i-^ e^D^on i I h^ ) , ''id n t Hei and never wish 
 
 10 joiQ lie chi 1, tne p -^--ini i i i i , ihat they are not 
 g^ \ 7 do* 'o lis a sisns, says: "If 
 
 ihe 1 " ^ 01, nh noi, b'^o i e ' e i ' This begs the 
 
 question, by taking it for granted that they kave religion, 
 which is the very thing vre wish to- learn by waiting. In 
 the day of excitement, two sorts of persons should be guarded 
 against, as the poorest judges of piety and the time of ad- 
 mission. One of these classes, is at such ? time all zeal, but 
 will soon be cut of the social meeting and take lutle interest 
 in religion, till the next revival. The other, is a stronger 
 partisan for sect than for the kingdom of heaven. I hav® 
 been told of a minister in Indiana who regarded all personal 
 friends and all v/ho would join his church as christians of 
 eourse. 
 
 III. Other sects will get ike converts. 
 
 This is the argument to weigh with the multitude. Noth- 
 ing is more disgraceful to christians, or sacriiegiouslto revi- 
 vals, than the quarrel which often ari£e.s from hurrying pec- 
 pie to the class paper, the wa'.er, conrirniation or session. 
 The sect which can out-run, or oat-manage, in this profana- 
 tion is regarded as the most successful. In this way, thou- 
 sands, if not hundreds of thousands, have been rushed into 
 the visible church, as destitute of grace as of all suitable 
 instruction. Men are mistaken in the value of that thought- 
 less, forward and bold class of materials, who are willing to 
 go hastily into this sacred relation. A sound writer says: 
 " The persons who are drawn away into other sects, during 
 the interval between the supposed conversion and the proper 
 time for admission, are those who would be of little value 
 
22 1 n't Ell NO ON. 
 
 in the church; and then.it is better to Jose one ■ desiratrk 
 member of the liodi, than to gather in twotvolves in sheep's 
 clothing. The church, that exercises a wise caution and 
 receives none to its fellowship till after a reasonable oppox' 
 tunity for the candidate to show the permanency of his 
 change, may increase its numbers less in a given revival, 
 but v.'ill in a course of years gather more of permanent 
 strength." Three 'denominations had a revival. The one, 
 which struck first, reaped more than half the fruits; and the 
 one, that struck next, received two thirds of the rsrnainder; 
 and, v/hat may seem a riddle, the third got the most. The 
 above named writer thus speaks of receiving multitudes in 
 the day of excitement. " A church, th?t has its front door 
 so thronged, must have a back door, well opened." Instead 
 of this, our church knov\'s no back door, drop practice, or 
 waste gate, to slily pass n;U uav;orthy members. The con- 
 stitution of our church knows no way but to publicly re- 
 reive and publicly expel. While others anticipate us and 
 -Tiompel us to receive what they cannot get, or will not take; 
 I can hardly in 24 years, think of a valuable member whom 
 we have lost by waiting thi-ee or si'; months. On <he 14th 
 of March, 10.3 were at tlic hope uiecling. The appliances^ 
 sometimes used, might have hrijught them all into the church. 
 Who believes that it would have been as valuable an acqui- 
 sition as what the church Avill get from that very number? 
 So far as our practice creates public opinion (■■^--■'^-■; other 
 sects to receive with less has'.e, we have an : We . 
 
 believe ou^ principles will bpp.r f"::^,;]! nation > . rt the 
 
 more time converts rake to ':ink, the more the in- 
 
 terest of our denomination \-. i • uiced. But I am told 
 
 abroad, "you there in Granville are so strong that you can 
 wait and tben get your part." How stroi:ig were we in 
 1827, v.-hen §200 could not be raised for a half year's salary. 
 How strong were we in 1828, v.lien (he fourth of Jaly ball 
 broke my windovvs? We have six chuix-hes in this small 
 place; and the Baptists have their c )l!ege and ahvajs sev- 
 eral resident clergyr.:en, which shows that v/e have materi- 
 als enough for competition. . 
 
 ly. Apostolic 'practice,. 
 
 This is a formidable argument; forjthe Eunuch, the Jailer 
 and 3000 appear to have been received the day of their con- 
 version. The advocates of hasty admissions do not pretend 
 to do this; so they should not plead apostolic practice. 
 This argument supposes that circumstances do not alter 
 cases, and that we must lay aside our common sense, and do 
 what holy men have done, whether we are in their position 
 or not. One holy man uttered a prophecy; another called 
 fire from heaven, and a third struck a sorcerer with blindness. 
 These and thousands of the acts of inspired men should not 
 
AFTERNOON. 23 
 
 'be imitated by those who are neither such men, nor In such 
 circumstances. Our circumstances differ from those of the 
 apostles in '=e\eial things. 
 
 1 1 he A} osilii, iDcre inspired. 
 
 The fiibt cou\eiis heard the preaching of Christ and the apostles, who 
 bound on eirth v\hTt was bound, or approved in heaven. They sowed 
 good <^tcd, Tud men had not yet slept to give the enemy time to sow tares. 
 Ihe cfl ct f illjwb the cause, the end, therneans, arid the genuineness of 
 reMvis the clnnctLi of the preaching. Were all preachers inspired, 
 theie «oi Id be bj lew false hopes as to lessen the evils of hasty admissions. 
 C50i 10 1CM\ lis Tie picmoted by such preaching and measures, that almost 
 erei) h ip( ib "^ound Others hnve half good hopes, and others are mere 
 excilLiiieiit i)ioducing no good hopes at all. This led me last winter to 
 juul [ labois instrumental in producing the purest reformations. 
 ) I hint; resulted in genuine revivals, with so few false hopes, 
 11 111 "Luld be safejy administered without delay. Inspiration 
 ,h I tht woik on the day of Pentecost was the work of the Lord, 
 I ill ve must wait for time to show whether the work is of 
 : i 1 I Lo lid we know that it was purely of God, we should 
 , It- "tliesame hour." While inspiration did not detect 
 \ 1 ii\ ciiididate, it showed Ananias, Sapphira and others, and 
 nci in discerning chta-acter. 
 
 could not easily he counterfeited. 
 
 system commenced, no one was afraid of a bill; but 
 
 II iimst keep detecters. At the pentecost and in the 
 
 1 1 uei, Cornelius and Judas of Damascus, no one -knew ho"w 
 
 tril ii the new religion. Things are now vastly different. We 
 
 1 I ti 1 i^uagc of Canaan from our infancy, and know how a 
 
 I I ( nld ftp], and what are his evidences of piety. Every virtue 
 
 cm Mm giace can be so counterfeited as for a time to escape 
 
 1 \ e not only deceive others, but in the day of excitement, 
 
 ruibehcs, and think we have that, which time will sliow, we 
 
 '( ( ' / I I J, it 01 1 milt 
 
 li !' ) .yr6i ui il b it thiicr ano 1 at ii i nt but 
 
 II n \ I \ c! ij 11 n or m oppo ei t 11^ bcli 1 luid 
 
 I 1 1 1 Miij, p s ifLi r 1 ijt-ie \\ cie ii 1 i 'uiii ltd It id a 
 
 I e loio Utnd 1 ulu h ^ ith t 11 iltii 1 j / 1 lei 1 \e of 
 I b m 3c( le ei h )tnc Ui te ei\ th ii w i h imag 
 
 the 1 ape of 1 li n One cbject cl l1 cl i m 
 I I the tiuth \\ h n he \ oild i lent mt 1 1 i iv 
 1 cr\\\ fioin )U t ic one I mw \ h lIi y 
 
 ) sill not 11 (0 1 f 1 1? jii 11, 
 
 in 1 1 11 to lU i' le whit tl e 
 
 I 1 e pectel jf th 11 I id mio battle 
 
 K I f 1 sucJi n el "vat 1 1, n iii> o them c Itn lit ) ido 
 1 1 11 c 1 in lite 1 ci I Iiisteil of ii ciel> i n m^^ a 
 It IS n CLS 11 lino 3 Miuns opinion to fi id i ciocd 
 1> cdrpt a connevion here w e cin h?^ e a eli ins heme 
 >i c \\1 eie we would piefei to in .. up oui cl ildi i ^"1 hen 
 li e 10 cieeo others iion° \\\ thiiev no^ then cmd dates, 
 \ tiling IS controveited a leasonablo tunc must b'= al o \e I those 
 islanomgly own then faith i.,. Chiist 
 > t Cm ^iianity had no repa-^ation. 
 d j^ I 1 nwarci to see the stand, the church vi^as to take in the 
 
 II oi Ind 1 ved no christian Emperors, nor Popes, nor Protest- 
 i'low chiistianity has stood 2000 years and we know it ivill 
 
 \\ [iLXf' religion is popular, its titles are as much loved as those of 
 
 nd oflice Where there has been a succession of revivals and 
 
 II non of the community arc professors of religion, it is a mat- 
 
 1 --nd loputaiion to join the church. Granville is emphati- 
 
 ice Most of the iritluential men are in the church instead 
 
 lib If our place has any o1 the aristocracy, or nobility, 
 
 in GUI o'luiches. How different from this was everything in the 
 
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24 
 
 AFTERNOON. 
 
 days of Peter ind J( Im 'I lu ir If i Ur 1 aMivbeen laughed to ^rnrn an I 
 
 put to a d) ^nctliil dt I 1 \ 1 s i im n ^le d u]) li i 11 r u ( , \ 1 ue 
 
 the fa'ihinmtlt an 1 ' \ ith t' p tpni s tn n It v s --o di=^ 
 
 gracuful to owutljit Oliiist ljiat\(U I \\ w u n iLintlie 
 
 church w 1 o M LU n ) "^ h u t w u i I i n i is c ufs 
 
 cation and d^nh, is nil d u ii c lum 
 
 utes, as \ e c \n now Itt n h i-i i i \ at 
 
 bapti ui i<=; ^\ n Hi i i I i fl i ' ( f 
 
 hasly adi i ' i i , ij tli ti 11 
 
 gains si t \ 1 u \e 11 e 
 da lit;-' 
 
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 Eli, 
 
 be, 
 
 prcacli'.n,:: ". 
 his posili' 
 particular, , . 
 
 difFereiU fruiii uiu's, iu,;.t .. 
 admissions. Daring l;o be v. 
 aaorillis \\-;.: .v.; ;. . . . 
 1 r .^ - . ; 
 
 1. I lid \'ii',uuj LiOd. 
 
 I have been asked, Wl^it 
 from tlie communion? Wl; 
 has given the church any po 
 door. Our loth - ^ ^ ' 
 lievers have right 
 ges sustaining Ihi:, ..... . 
 
 a correct belief and a cl 
 
 requires these thiiiiz ■, 1: 
 
 them. If it tnkes : 
 
 assurance of hone, 
 
 heart? The Bibh^ iv.iiL 
 
 done '-'with the nnderr 
 
 der/"' The • " 
 
 persons ar% 
 
 defin--- ■- 
 
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 rnic . : 
 
 er t-i 
 
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 'i'Tht liave you to keep people 
 
 ;i a judge? if God 
 
 ! I ! T-; e e jj i ng o f i t s o w-n 
 
 •■ i.oi'c but \isible be- 
 
 ' i;i:icli. The passa- 
 
 , bhou'd have piet}',. 
 
 vnce. If the Bible 
 
 io obiain evidence of 
 
 ■ .:;ri\e at his own full 
 
 . ,:' 01 his neighbor's 
 
 I '; t iliiiigs should be 
 
 ■J; I f :;My and in or- 
 
 : . ''z.yA ignorant 
 
 ^ \-f:-.yu,- the 
 
 ^. . /:..ei-, or having 
 
 J.scribe. The Bi- 
 
 '^-ten persons to ccm- 
 
 . If Philip had pow- 
 
 i ■ i elieved with all his 
 
 lime tu gain evidence of such 
 
 '\\eaie God's building — I have 
 
 .'.her buildelh thereon. Let ev- 
 
 buildeth thereupon." He says, 
 
 .urch, will be judged according 
 
 J, whether gold, silver, wood, 
 
 mand to "take heed," is an order 
 
AFTERNOON. ^O 
 
 to take time to select the best materials. No divine com- 
 mand is contrary to common sense. If ministers are com- 
 manded to put in good materials, they are commanded io 
 take time to do it. All scriptures, which direct the church, 
 "to come out; be separate;" "unspotted from the world;" 
 *' hold fast the form of sound words;" " count the cost;'' and 
 "know them by their fruits," prove that persons should not 
 be received hastily to the church. 
 
 II. Joining Ike Church is a most solann duly. 
 
 If a mortal "should ever proceed with due deliberation, it 
 is when lie takes upon himself the vows of God. It would 
 be quite another thing to join a human society, and so it 
 would, if v,'e eiuld take the covenant of God' on our lips, 
 to-day, and drop it, or be dropped to-morrow. Instead of 
 this, uniting with the church is a great and permanent aliair. 
 IVo provision is made for retreat; all the armor is for the 
 front, and i o le bin Ro le, p cs i es to ab ol e men fiom 
 theit orth to God Tiliny en e ihe mOot tho ighllec 1/ into 
 the cli iich 3 1 n a i^a^p ichuoi , i /ocoven^'i+o f cm wh.ch 
 theie lb no leueit. O the e, the ch uch covenant is the 
 mOie p=i u'^iicU'^ The maif. e uuven^jit cid-. ^vi h the 
 death Oi o 13 o''th'=' c niple 'I h'^ cLi ch co ^ ^xu i i ^dc 
 wi4i Go I ad' p ^p''^, '"ud \ I'l le bipri ^ ^ "> o ^ ^s, 
 God r -iJ the so 1 p t. -^hill ■< e i id i p ^ ^ ^ ^ to c / 
 this ^\ ^ i" f ^u'e 1 CO-! e an v i ' ojh t u e to c^ i.ei ^ ell 
 wh'^i Ji^ 6)^ It lb ah I % Oi (| nt'^ s'^L 'eg-^, to huny tie 
 unino*- net uthioi^h sic ed n^es, i liKh the^ la e had 
 nei ' -^ ^ e, noi oppoitunuy to coup ch^nd 
 
 ill 1 oci oLO/io ?iiostIy occus t,n 1 i <. '^ 
 -H ^ I il en, a'e not no-^ed ' ih^ "j. i it -^ l ^^ ^ ily, b it 
 by "^ 1 ^ " 1 y ai d \a 1-. e ^1 ^ i< , a n^ t i ou na- 
 tme an ] che i n et^eto ^ o^th'^' mens ad ^ ^ dea 
 
 titute of lehgion, 1 c ^ ° ci^ed and h\ x tii-^is 
 
 With thoi ""al => f 1 e li'^ oh j Li f e '= ii^d c! luu as 
 
 wellaaoiodic thmo-s it c,i e^thdh^ i^^ej diuetcd 
 attencioi Bi t, \.hile enot.Du is u"^, lo no i ^ r -> ^eo 
 arai^ be'-v een ■i'^ heat and chuf L thde i -> , u 
 
 wi'l le la.n Ull tne e^cuemcu s ' d l r< [ ^ 
 
 be o ' n J ^ ill ^i 1 1 a d ol * 1, i ' ! a ' i u"' i 
 
 teM \ h^ th-^' aie. The ,, tl r- ' i^^ v ti -. ^ci ed 
 
 will st'^nd eloof fiom the "-hL ch Cuttle -^ p o"^ c i , ^ ho 
 wish, in the da, ofcoldncbs, f) g t out of the i Id oi ^ l . t, 
 because the ' hs aie too ^ti i t loi then, b a lit V n oie 
 waiting, v^ould have lemamcd on the Side ol i.Le ^nclo.Mue 
 where they properly belong. Vvhen v^-e receive from the 
 camp-ground and the protracted meeting, can we avoid taking 
 in the " wood, hay and stubble?'^ In the past revival, we 
 waited longer than usual, because (lie materials v.ere pro- 
 tracted meeting converts. At that time there was scarcely a 
 
26 AFTERNOd'N. 
 
 breath of opposition, " not a dog moved his tongue," and 
 religion carried all before it. Had we opened the door, we 
 might have received a large number and some., gold, silver 
 and precious stones; but who believes that waiting six 
 months, has not kept back much wood, hay and stubble? 
 
 IV. The continuance of reinvals of religion. 
 
 When a good work commeuces, it usually goes on from 
 day to day, and from week to week, till stopped by God's 
 people. The M'icked cannot Q.x\d God lo ill not sound a re- 
 treat. Strange as il; may seem, a revival often stops .at 
 baptism or the communion table. At Braddock's defeat, 
 Washington led off the beaten forces, when the Indians 
 might have butchered the army, had not the foolish creatures 
 stopped onthe prey. Hundreds of churches have witnessed the 
 commencement of promising revivals. Wlien con'i'eits are 
 multiplied, they relax their efforts for more conversions, to 
 rejoice over and secure the spoils. The serious and con- 
 victed, taking advantage of the cessation of hostilities, re- 
 treat to the world, and the victory, well nigh won, is lost. 
 Hasty receptions, in a revival, excite curiosity and intro- 
 duce disputes on the mode of baptism and other di\-iding 
 questions, which put an end to the work. I recollect no re- 
 vival, but the o/ie of 1828, when the work was delayed by 
 discussion and then went o'l as before. When like that, it 
 continues a year, the admission of the older converts, rather 
 quickens, than retards. If ever the people of Granville had 
 a fair prospect of a complete victory over Satan, it vas last 
 March, and converts continued to appear up to ihe very 
 time wlien the public mind was diverted. Shall we ever 
 again be in such an advantageous position? Could the 
 matter of dividing the spoils have been deferred one month, 
 how much it would have been worth to Granville! How 
 much, to precious souls! I do not lay all the blame on the 
 Baptists. One third of our Sabbath School, members of 
 ail the Churches, the wicked, the inquirers, serious, half- 
 convicted, and deeply convicted were at the water's edge, 
 and curiosity and anxiety about the direction converts would 
 take, did as much to divert the public mind as discussion. 
 While diigh excitement cannot be expected to last always, 
 Vv'hata treasure it would have been, to have had tho:ie 25 
 golden days not cut short, till they had reached 50! When 
 Harrison was elected, the public mind was as much excited 
 as it is in a revival of religion, for six months. Should we 
 not do as much for religion as politics? A genuine, lasting 
 revival is like a summer on vegetation. Plants not only 
 spring up but they grow, and twigs, trees, and all the forest 
 g 'ow. How dreadful it would be to have frozen blasts bring 
 in vrinter and terminate suram.er in June ! While all na- 
 ture would suffer, the young and tender would suiter most, 
 so in a revival, all Christians grow in grace, and its eari^ 
 
AlrxKUNOON. ^7 
 
 iermlnation injures all, but more especially young converts. 
 How sad to have these plants frozen as soon as they come 
 out of the ground ! Minds, turned oft'to discussion, or the 
 world, a few days after conversion, will show the sad effect 
 in their experience for years. I know the person whose con- 
 version, 1 suppose, was the kst of the revival in town. 
 
 v. ilnjlt candidates are ofttn the most forward. 
 
 The seed or stony ground sprung up " anon," or 
 forthwith. They who are brought along by-sympathy, pas- 
 sion and false hopes, are much more confident and bold than 
 those who are rao\ed by the Christian graces. Fie, who has 
 seen his own heart and been thoroughly convicted, has too 
 great a sense of unworthiness, to rush upon holy rites. _ In 
 receiving to this church 557, by profession, a number have 
 expressed a wish not to wait our usual time. Could I give 
 you their names, it wouM be a strong argument in favor of 
 waiting till such religion as theirs, withered away. 
 
 VI. TJie facts of hasty admission. 
 
 Our Pilgrim fathers sau^ so many of these in the mother 
 country, that they Vv'ere called fanatics for their caution in 
 receiving mem/uers. They instituted the practice of pro- 
 pounding, to prevent candidates from being immediately re- 
 ceived, even after they were examined. Their caution 
 made their churches such specimens of parity as the world 
 has seldom seen. We do not need numbers so much as 
 graces; quantity so much as quality. Our times demand 
 real enldiers of the cross. lianijibal and Alexander did not 
 obtaia their vi-tories by numbers, but by the quality of their 
 soldiers. \\ lieu Christ entered on the conquest oi the 
 world, he did iiot commission an army ot missiorpries as 
 large as tiiat of Xerxes, but a dozen choice spiiits. The re- 
 formers ]\\ Europe did not accomplish their great work, and 
 plaoi the tree of liberty in our soil by nusubers, but by a hw 
 men of the right stamp. -Do the largest sects effect the most 
 good? What would become of the objects of general benev- 
 olence, if they rested on the denominations thai out-number? 
 Sects are unstable and destitute of moral power, in propor- 
 tion to their rapid admission. In the day of revival, few 
 see the evil of admitting thoee, who will be wild, proud and 
 graceless; whose business it will be to make trouble. The 
 admission of excitable materials, who cannot govern them- 
 selves, is not onl^? destructive to the stability and uniform 
 piety of others, but their own last state is made worse than 
 the first. Great losses by apostasy and discipliiie arise from 
 hasty admissions. Receiving too fast caused the Ciiitarian 
 apostasy in New England. A report, on the state of religion 
 in Mass. to the Old School General Assembly in 1843, 
 speaks of those " that adopt the objectionable revival meas- 
 ures and practice hasty admission to the church," and says, 
 " It has been found by actual examination of statistics, that 
 
28 
 
 Air ii:.^iriuUN. 
 
 in those ;:■'■!!• :'--aions in New Ecgland which generally 
 favor th ■ rible measures, to wit: the Methodists,- 
 
 Baptists iH Baptists, just about one half of th& 
 
 persons ;, ; ■ church, go out by excommunication- 
 
 and that ,■; any laxity of discipline which may 
 
 exist a ., ;.:ie the proporLion excommunicated 
 
 from o!! . i;;:.en buL from ton to twelve per cent."- 
 
 Bu: ,-[■ home. Hasty admissions caused 
 
 tb:' Granville Church in the days of 
 
 Presiii. ; J of this church in the days of Mr. 
 
 Jinks. : :ln:! in ilie Synod of 1828, Dr. Wil- 
 
 son rebc ' : mv vfy>ov': s'lid me, for so slowly re- 
 
 ceiving; ■ • ■[':■.[ y>^:i.-. ill-- rep'X'V slrorigly advo- 
 
 cated ii, /;■'-'■ ■ b'::! car!!p--mG::':!iigs, then 
 
 iu \ year he ad gritted, from 
 
 the (-: '-Jfliy ;.;o'e,-?;ion, more 
 
 than tb I hat year, 
 
 •ad ne-; . , , . the exci- 
 
 ting tb' ^s of i32S bau ■aCincin- 
 
 cinnnb a lady .told me, - : ' . ytbs ago, 
 
 suspended 60 members." lion the 
 
 Doctor and again talk 0' lod. He 
 
 said, o" ''■'-■• -^^ ■' .iNcu iLi :.-.,.-■, one half 
 
 have n^" ' '. uow say they have none. 
 
 He wc: , , ' '-^-b a ^-.-Mess likely ever 
 
 to be convcr'ou. t'. ' een kept out of 
 
 the church.'' ] ' [ .:■ Miami rolled 
 
 over the Scioto; ; iriciids of revivals- 
 
 who would not L' :■'. '^^ii-'.ce that tim^, 
 
 tJie G:f'!ie:arAs>e '^e Church 
 
 in the S\uu)dof C ^lOugh we 
 
 ha ■■ ■ ■ '^ ^ , yns, other 
 
 q:^ : :: ■ : .on's souls. 
 
 Fu; > , '.I ;. V the ship. 
 
 Had XV .vcs/em breth- 
 
 rei!, ■ - ■ ;• ii'b^v-cita- 
 
 b- . .ruse, 
 
 w. . . -uta 
 
 h ■ . ITVaj, ,:v KJ2.4. I 
 
 re^. -'-'''i;? ihe quarter of 
 
 a; , _ . ,: J ■ would I more gladly 
 
 rec - have been too hastily 
 
 ad i better thaii a bad man in- 
 
 sii dead, and we may expect 
 
 hi !_ .' n every qua; ter; but if all 
 
 is b ■ 'a :,d them like a Macedonian 
 
 Fi ..■ A ,■'■•■ '., foundation of this Church 
 
 b; ,,]:■■ :a. ■, .. tv.'elve layers, I warn you, 
 
 vo ■ M. . wani if; ■ saccessors, " Let every maa 
 
 take heed li-jw be buildelh- thereupon." .,.-^ 
 
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 Qone 1' I III iiiir infill iice'^ 1 nm not ii 
 
 iiud I I iir ii I wi li to show Gnin 
 
 Licl 111 P il III I IS 1 mole L\c( lleni w ly It 
 
 U (1 b\ 111 1 \ 1 Iio^\ Iht y lie mi I 1 i u ' I he\ 1 
 
 th? \en 1 )i II 1 ininci)ih s ol libcM to t the si ut_ liti 
 \v ho I ir t I Iv II hiip been the f sL fii n 1 i ( j n lu 1 
 <^t-it 1 1 r lIq fiel t the btlli \ 1 1 111 hi I \ I 
 >ou m^pd tioin the TiiK I I i". ' ^ n'lP. 
 
 \SI L It tl LU blood 111 L W 11 1 I 1 I I I II 
 
 il iKU^n, hi'se blotted oiu tl M* ii are 
 
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 teiit. ^ lied 1 } cusciphn°, end still nore, 11 at the> \^ill il snnd fair la 
 the records on high. 
 
 TsMPEUAx^cE should be sustained by moral suasion and petitions till we 
 are protected from aii traffic annoying to morals and relig-on. Let us have 
 the Maine law. 
 
 Our. Schools raise the standard of education, and nnnuaiiy bring into 
 the place more than ?-.30,0C0. i^U parents abroad should lie made sure 
 that our own citizens have moral courage enough to suppress all intem- 
 perance, and sustain the authorities in putting down every disorder. The 
 ministry suffers unspeakably, because so few of them are well educated, 
 and the same is true of every other profession. Every farmer and every 
 mechanic, who knows enough to see ignorance, feels the want of a bet- 
 ter Education. Let us then remove our Academy debt, and holdup the 
 institutions of learning and religion, The man who neglects public wor- 
 ship should be taxed for its support double to his neighbors who pay 
 half by their attendance. So the man who does not educate himself and 
 family, should pay double for such a public blessing as education. When 
 the convenience and comfort of attending public worship have doubled, 
 it is dreadful to think thatany should give an irregular attendance. A 
 large portion of the church do not feel their responsibility to attend aud 
 aid the social meetings. He who neglechs them unconsciously makfc* 
 eommon cause with him who speaks against them. And when our prop- 
 eity is doubling, how sad to do less for foreign missions If every #136 
 withheld, withholds one soul from heaven, here is an awful responsibility. 
 Are here persons increasing in property who give no more than they di<i 
 ten years ago? How will the suras we give look in eternity? What Los- 
 don street suffered a few years ago, and what we now suffer by the New- 
 ark failure, and the fact that we shall soon be beyond our MSB^y, 
 should lead us to givo while we fcave au opportuuity. 
 
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 The township has 125 persons over 60 years of age; one in CTery ISj 
 
 Esq. Gilman, aged 87, ia 
 
 61 over 70; one in 38; U over 80; ■ one in 164.- 
 the oldest person in the church and towns^hfp. 
 
 Date. Names. Disease. 
 
 Jan. 1, Mary Eliza, d'ghter of Widow Bash, Disease of heart, 
 
 " 6, Allen Siniiet, Typhus fever, 
 
 •' 16, Miss Catharine Hughes, - Disease of heart, 
 
 Feb. 13, Mrs. Chloe Moore, Inflam'tion lungs, 
 
 March 17, Mis. Lucinda Browninj, Canker, 
 
 April 7, Mrs. Laura W. Martin, . Hemorrhage, 
 
 " 18, John Dunlap, Disease of heart, 
 
 " 21, Mrs. Sally Cain, Consumption, 
 
 June 2-5, Mrs. Nancy Blanchard,'' Disease of heart, 
 
 " 29, Leander, son of Vin Browning, Canker, 
 
 July 9, Ephraim H. Farmer, Diarrhea, 
 
 ** 11, Mrs. Maiicy Loyd, Consumplion, 
 
 " 13, liiliinL son (if a transient woman, Nesjlect, 
 
 30, r.Irs. Anil Tight, - Fits, 
 
 Angust 2, Mrs. Lodnma Daly, Dysentery, 
 " 3, John Goodrich, . Dysentery, 
 " 24, idfs. Snsan -Coleman, 
 24:, Lorenzo Baker, 
 
 Agk. 
 
 6 m. 
 53 y. 
 25 y. 
 68 T. 
 40 J. 
 3S J. 
 68 y, 
 46 y. 
 79 y. 
 
 7 m. 
 28 y. 
 37 y. 
 
 1 m. 
 66 J. 
 87 y. 
 10 y. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 SO, (5eorge Simeon, son of Tim'y Smith, Indigestion, 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 12, Rev. Thomas Hughes, 
 20, John Sampson, 
 
 28, Evan Evans, 
 
 6, Ann Eliza Jane Spilman, 
 
 13, Mrs. Mary Toloday, 
 
 4, Infant sen of Levi Rose, 
 
 7, [da Ann, daush. of Calvin Dibble, 
 27, Alanson He^-rit, 
 30, Sarah Beers. 
 
 :': Feb. 1; March 1: April 
 
 . •: Dec. 1—20 :./!,:!;. ;,„ 
 
 ut 19. In r-::'.::7 di-. 
 
 o, 40: '49, 50; 
 Four uf our cli 
 Cayuaim:,- II 
 
 Cancerous affecti'n, 55 y. 
 Consumption, 20 y. 
 
 6 rn. 
 
 66 V. 
 
 45 y. 
 
 38 y. 
 
 11 V. 
 
 Dec. : 
 
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 rage for ten years. 
 
 January 16, Miss 
 Tert of the revival of 184.0. I req 
 young man and woman, 1 could 
 class. Tiiey returned 100 signatu 
 et;er 14 years of age av ' » -' 
 class every evening fc- 
 ing Jan. V2ih, 1841. j 
 ))rayed in an upper roooi, a l;- 
 hopeful converts. Her relc 
 of a pious mother in Trcnto;;, 
 years old. At six, slie sent me ll: 
 
 2 w • 
 14 m. 
 25 V. 
 
 17 T. 
 
 Disease of heart, 
 
 Cfincer, 
 
 Consumption, 
 
 Typhus fever, 
 
 Hemorrhage, 
 
 Diseased bowels. 
 
 Diarrhea, 
 
 Liver Complaint, 
 
 Ervsipelas, 
 
 : June 2: Julv 4; Aug. 5; 
 
 ) :.>!,:;;. ;,,,,| ^^ ciMidrrii; in all 28. la 
 
 ■■V:,'!! di-'l; ^4:;, '2S: -11, 25, '45, 23; 
 
 •"oij, 19; '51, 28; making 30 the ave- 
 
 irch liave died. 
 
 en! s, .-iHer! 25 yenrs. She was a con- 
 
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 , '.-,•■ -VACwi Bible 
 
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 . : . . , ii,y churcb 
 i liita of iiie chiss, became 
 ■irch, says: " 1 was born 
 lije tiere when I was five 
 oi r5;u/i:;aiii school and showed me the 
 Lord's prayer, which I learned and have since repeated. I was a long 
 time serious and feared that the Lord would cast me off. When I was 
 eleven years old, 1 was awakened by Mr. Little's address to the impeni- 
 t^int in the gallery at a communion. I thought how I had broken the 
 Sabbath, neglected my soul and forgotten the goodness which spared my 
 life. I was serious a year, till we removed to Chicago, when I resolved 
 that I would defer religion tii.i I was 14 and no longer. Two months be- 
 fore the January Bible,class, mother asi:ed ms if 1 neglected prayer. I 
 replied that I did when coming from Chicago. She said, it was very 
 wicked. This and my other sins troubled my mind till the Bible class, 
 ■which I did not hear of till the third lesson. Not knowing what seats the 
 elass occupied^ I went into the conference room and took my seat with 
 them. As soon as I saw rny mistake, 1 thought that I would leave the 
 elass, but I feared God v\aiuld punish me for it. I felt very serious that 
 evening, tliinking how happy christians %vere, and that my sins were so 
 great that they could not be forgiven. Going home, 1 louud the folks 
 gone and improved the opportunity in praying God to forgive me. 1 felt 
 a little as though he had forgiven some of my sins, but others, I thought, 
 Tf»ie so great that he could never forgive them. The next day, I felt 
 
AFTERNOOI^-. 31 
 
 some- better and coiitimieiHo grow hnppier every day of the Bible class. 
 I loved to see christians and hear them pray. I returned to Sabbath 
 school, which I had left, and loved it, loved its books and loved public 
 worship. I think I liave devoted myself to Christ, and wish above all 
 things to live a holy life." She united v/ith the church at 14, was 
 sprightly, beautiful and in a few years was very successful in her busi- 
 ness of "dressmaking. She became dissatisfied with the church, ran from 
 one- meeting 10 another and did other things, peculiar to those on the 
 road to apostasy. Instead of listening to the advice of friends, she be- 
 came obstinate and would neither do her duty in religion, nor desist fiorn 
 excessive toil which was breaking down her constitution. Between two 
 and three years before her death, she was dangerously ill foriliree months, 
 and deeply repented of her backslidings. Unlike most sick bed repent- 
 ances, her life and conversation, ever after, evinced that hers was sin- 
 cere. Instead of a reckless manner of talking and acting, she exhibited 
 nothing but the lamb and the dove. Everything was humble, amiable 
 kind and becoming a young christian. Nothing lay nearer her heart than 
 Ure conversion of the family. From a child, she had symptoms of the 
 disease of the heart, which increased till death. She often expressed 
 gratitude, that she- did not die \n her -first sickness, without time to prove 
 the sincerity of'her repentai-ice. She made preparations for death in 
 things, both temporal and spiritual. Though the remains of her brother 
 were laid in the yard on the. hills, she chose to repose in tJiis burying 
 ground. She went aad selected, as her final resting place, a lot next to 
 that of the family of her Pastor. -^ In her last sickness, which was less 
 than a week, she said she- would not exchange her hope for worlds. 
 When asked which she would prefer, to get well or die, she replied, 
 "there is no difference." 
 
 February l-S, died Mrs. Chloe Moor-e, aged 68 years. Her maiden 
 name was Chloe Case. She was born in Granby, Ct, of pious parents, 
 who gave her to God in baptism and taught her the catechism. She was 
 married at the age of 25 and removed to this place in 1809. She was a 
 convert of the revival of 1S22. Her leading, excellence was tenderness 
 to the sick, afflicted and aged. Her father Moore came into the family 
 in 1815 and lived till he was 88. The infirmities of his last 20 years, 
 were soothed and lightened by the unwearied attentions of his daughter- 
 in-iaw. Fler husband, for years coming down to the grave, required an 
 amount of care sufficient to exhaust her constitution. She survived him 
 in great weakness, two years, and was so despondent that she gave a 
 hei-hope. Last wiuier, she was very happy and enjoyed the revival 
 before it ca-me. There was no one at the inquiry meeting, the first week 
 in the year who was nearer full assu.rance. She read the Bible a great 
 deal and said, " It never seemed so good before, I cannot read it enough." 
 The lung fever brought her almost to the grave before she v/as aware 
 of it. When told of her danger, she said, "I have a God to go to, in 
 whom I put my trust." Seeing her youngest daughter weep, she said, 
 " don't weep for me, but for yourself. Grve your soul, body and all, to 
 God for they are his. The week following her death, there vv^ere more 
 converts than any other week in the year. 
 
 April 7, died Mrs. Laura Y/. Martin, aged S8 years. Her maiden 
 same was Laura W. Ross. She was born and brought up in Royalton, 
 Vt., made a profession of religion in 1831; was married, came to Graa- 
 ville and brought a letter to this church, 14 years .ago. Her husband, the 
 successful principal of the male Academy five years, died, leaving her 
 to be a widow nine years with two small children and an embarassed 
 property. She took boarders, taught i-a. Granville and Columbus, and 
 exerted herself beyond her strength to keep down interest and redeem 
 tiie property. I have been told since her, death, that she kept school, 
 during the day, vv'itli an average of fifty scholars, did the house work and 
 kept the family wardrobe in order, morning and evening; washed, Friday- 
 evening; ironed and baked Saturday, and was deprived of regular rest, 
 from her son having two or three fits during the night. They, who have 
 felt the suspense, care and anxiety of a teacher and parent, will not 
 wonder that her constitution gave way. She was compelled to leave the 
 school, and in less than two weeks, sunk into the grave. At first, she 
 felt that she could not give up her children, and espeeially the one sub- 
 ject to fits, and requested prayers in her room and the house of God for 
 submission. These prayers were answered and she said, " I can chew- 
 
62 .-^ AFTERNOON. 
 
 fuH\ gue tliLin up, I am ready to s;0 an I leave them with the Lord '"^ 
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 Such is the history of those who have died, or liave gone to die in other 
 clia:es. We shall see them again on the morning of the resurrection. 
 Till then w'e hid them farew^ell; and I now bid farewell to all of yoii, 
 who will not see another new year. Since I became your pastor, 113 of 
 this church and 755 of the township, have gone the w\ay of all the earth. 
 Many of. them are in fresh remembrance; but how^ changed! Where is 
 now Allen Sinnet, Catharine Hughes, Mrs. Martin, John (Goodrich and 
 Lorenzo Baker? They are where you and I may be before another new- 
 year! Are we prepared for the change which may take place before n 
 day — before an hour! Let no time be lost. Let this be the moment 
 ■when we will abandon every sin and be wholly the Lord's. This first 
 Sabbath in 1S52 is the time for resolutions, breaking wrong habits and 
 beginning to live with eternity m view. Let ns be ready for the coiaia^ 
 of our Lord and this year will also be a "year of the right hand of tke 
 Most High."