"that will do fo, 'till the last great day reveal it. But we may fee the utter infufficiency of infidel principles to afford fupport and comfort, in that war, in which there is no discharge. MESSRS. EDITORS, fome re I HAVE fent you marks on the importance of doctrinal preaching; which you are at liberty to publifh in your Maga zine if you think proper, counts which have been published refpecting the late revival of religion, in different places, we find that no fuch wild diforderly things have attended the work, as prevailed in the feafon of the reli very verge of eternity; but wholly unprepared for the awful fcene. "Oh," he would cry out, I was a Christian-All the world would I give, if I had it, that I were a Chriftian." He was reminded of the fullnefs and fufficiency of Chrift, the richness, of divine mercy, and the freeness of divine grace. "Yes," would he reply, but all is out of my reach I have no heart to accept. O! Sir, do pray, pray for me do pray with me, and for me." He was told, that it was hoped he would pray for himself. "Oh he could not-God would not hear fuch prayers as his—he wifhed that all good people would pray for him." Soon, on this, he became delirious; and fell into a phrenzy. His horrors, in this fitua-gious awakening, near 60 years tion, appeared to exceed defcrip- ago. And to what muft this be tion. The most dreadful terrors imputed? Is it not owing to the feemed to have taken hold of him. increase of doctrinal light among His affrighted imagination feemed us? Without any disparagement to haunted, fometimes with awful our venerable ancestors, may we fpectres-fometimes with terrible not conclude that the doctrines of wild beafts, juft ready to devour the gofpel are more diftinguishinghim. He would cry out, and ly taught and better understood, beg for help-that fome one would than they were in general in this come and deliver him. Horror, country, a little above a half cendistress and anguifh were ftrikingly tury paft? I think this inference painted in every feature of his face. may be fairly drawn from the dif A pious and very fenfible woman, ferent manner in which religious who was with him, the last night awakenings are now conducted and of his life, obferved that his ter-treated, from what they then were. rors appeared far to exceed any And this evinces the great imthing he had ever witneffed-portance of the minifters of the That the could not have imagined, gofpel being faithful in explaining that it was in the power of human and inculcating the fundamental nature to endure the diftrefs and and leading fentiments of Chrifbitter anguish, which he seemed to tianity, upon their hearers. Nor fuffer. But, a little before he ex- ought their apparent inattention to pired, it was obferved, his coun- be the leaft objection against doctenance altered, and became pla- trinal preaching. Becaufe in the cid. He put on a fmile, and dulleft feafons, people will get and talked of pleasant meads, and de- retain fome ideas of what they are lightful fields. Very foon on this taught; and especially will the he expired. What is beyond, lies truths they have repeatedly heard concealed behind the veil : And, come afresh to their minds, when their attention is duly excited to | difcourfes, their preaching will foon become trite, and void of fentiment. JETHRO. Connecticut, Sept. 16, 1800. Religious Intelligence. N the Magazine for September IN was an extract of a letter con the great things of another world. Some are advocates for practical preaching only; tho' this is very neceffary in its proper place, yet all who are well fkilled in the fcriptures of truth, will readily own, that a right doctrinal knowĺedge is effential to lay a foundation for a right faith, right exercifes and a right practice. It must be granted that the knowledge which people gain of fcripture doctrines while unregenerate, is as ufeful to them when they are brought to love religion, as that which they afterwards acquire. And where perfons who have been but poorly indoctrinated are made the fubjects of conviction and converfion, they frequently run into many wild and erroneous opinions, which not only tend greatly to cramp their minds, and to destroy their peace, but prove prejudicialed; numbers were hopefully brought to the interest of religion. It may be further obferved, that no preaching has a more direct tendency to strike the minds of finners with a deep conviction of their loft, guilty and ruined ftate, than that which points out their total depravity; the nature of their impotency; the character of God; and his fovereignty in the difpenfations of his blethings; or that which brings into view the character and offices of Jefus Chrift; or the doctrine of regeneration, of juftification by faith alone. The great doctrines which bring to view the refurrection, the laft judgment, heaven and hell are peculiarly calculated to frike careless minds with awe, and to lead them to think on their ways, and to look out for a way of escape from the wrath to come. It may be further remarked that where preachers confine themfelves chiefly or altogether to practical taining fome information concerning a revival of religion in the counties of Otfego and Delaware. The following more particular intelligence has latley been received. Extra of a letter from one of the Connecticut Miffionaries, dated Orfego County August 19, 1800. "YOU will recollect, in my laft letter, I mentioned fome religious attention in this county, at a place called Otfego Creek. Soon after I wrote, the attention increaf to accept of Chrift. Viewing these profpects, I thought it proper to tarry fome longer in this county. I ftaid and preached more extenfively in it than I had done before. The bleffed work appeared to fpread in a very glorious manner. The people upon Otfego Creek appeared exceedingly awakened. It foon fpread over the hills between the Otfego and the Sufquehannah, to a place called the Hardwick fettlement; then into Metcalf-hill fettlement; foon after the work began powerfully in Springfield, and extended confiderably into Worcester. While the work was making progrefs in this county, I received information from Dela employ of the Miffionary Society of Connecticut, are the Rev. William Storrs and Mr. Robert Por ter in the Northern counties of the ftate of Vermont; the Rev. Seth Williston, the Rev. Jedidiah Bushnell, and Mr. Amafa Jerome, in the Western counties of the ftate of New York; and Mr. Jofiah B. Andrews, upon the head waters of the rivers Delaware and Susquehannah. Appointed and now going out, the Reverend David Huntington to Vermont and the fettlements on the West fide of Lake Champlain to Canada line, and the Rev. Jofeph Badger to the fettlements on Black River and the east end of Lake Ontario, from thence to travel through the military tract and the Genefee country to the head wa ters of Delaware and Sufquehannah-Mr. David Bacon to the Indian tribes fouth and weft of Lake Erie.-The several Miffionary Societies in the United States are requefted to tranfmit, monthly, to the Editors of this Magazine, for publication, the names of their Miffionaries and the plas ces to which they are fent, that thus the respective focieties may not interfere with each other, & thata difpro peared a little dawn of an awakening the laft fpring, I found that the fun had rifen. As many as forty perfons in the town of Delhi were hopefully converted; many more were under ferious impreffions. Some of the neighbouring towns have fhared confiderably in the bleffed effufions of the Holy Spirit. The laft Sabbath I preached at Delhi, nineteen perfons were received into the church, most of whom were youth in the bloom of their days. "When I returned to Otfego county, I found the awakening had much increased: the fields did appear really white for the harveft. Laft fpring, foon after the attention began at Otfego Creek, we organized a church in that fettlement, confifting of eighteen perfons; part of them old profeffors from New-England, and part young converts. The firft Sabbath that I preached there, after my last return from the Delaware, we admitted twenty-eight perfons more into that church, baptized twelve adults and twenty children. Probably twenty more perfons, living at the Otfego and its vicinity, hope they have of late paffed from death to life; and will foon become members of the church. Laft Sabbath, at Springfield, we ad-portionate number of Miffionaries mitted thirteen perfons into the church in that place, and on the Sabbath and Monday, baptized twenty-fix children. The awakening increases much in that place. Itis wonderful to fee the difplay of divine power in this country. The awakening is very folemn and regu-Chrift in Hamden, the Rev. Alar. It is like the ftill, fmall voice which made the prophet Elijah wrap his face in his mantle. The truth of that text never appeared more clear than at prefent: not by might, or by power, but by my Spirit faith the Lord of Hofs." may not be fent to the fame place. ORDINATION-Ordained, by the Confociation of the Wef tern diftrict of the county of NewHaven, on Tuesday, Sept. 9th, 1800, over the first church of SA LYMAN. The introductory prayer was made by the Rev. David Tullar of Milford; the fer mon was preached by the Rev. William Lyman of Millington, brother to the paftor elect, from Deut. xviii. 6, 7; the confecrating prayer was made by the Rev. THE Millionaries now in the Noah Williston of West-Haven; MISSIONARIES. none; How foon will all my days be gone, And grifly death appear! And love my Saviour dear. Prepare in heav'n to fhine. 3. And when the clay-cold hand of death Shall chill my lungs, & ftop my breath, And clofe thefe mortal eyes; May I to happier climes remove, Where all is friendship, joy and love, There join the glorious choir above, Where heav'nly anthems rife! 'day, With thickeft darkness clad; What tho' the stars affrighted leave their spheres, The moon turn pale, or dreft in blood appears, Before the incarnate GoD: Shalt hear the trump of Gabriel found, 3. Then fhalt thou hear his juft im- "Depart accurs'd ye who deny repentance, And did my grace despise; But come, ye blessed, whom my grace elected, Ere time began, with me by faith connected, To heav'n and glory rife. name, When I recall the tender fcenes And ftor'd my mind with gefpel 2. 'Twas thou didst give that parent dear, Who, ere my birth, pronounc'd me thine; She early taught me whom to fear, Aud bade me know thy love divine. 3. Oft on her knees the holy faint Implor'd thy blefling on my head ; And daily told thy wondrous ways. Thoughts on the future glory of the to "come into the land that is brought back from the fword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Ifrael which have been always waste." The arrival of this hoft is compared to a cloud which covers the land.* The deftruction of the army of Gog, is particularly described in chapt. xxxix. 9-12. "And they that dwell in the cities of Ifrael fhall go forth, and fhall fet on fire and burn the weapons, both the fhields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the hand-staves, and the fpears, and they fhall burn thera with fire feven years; fo that they fhall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forefts: for they fhall burn the weapons with fire; and they fhall fpoil thofe that ⚫ chap. xxxviii. 8, 9, 16. VOL. I. No. 5. fpoiled them, and rob thofe that robbed them, faith the Lord God. And it fhall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a the valley of the paffengers on the place there of graves in Ifrael, east of the fca: and it shall stop the nofes of the paffengers: and there they fhall bury Gog, and all his multitude; and they fhall call And feven months fhall the house it, The valley of Hamon-gog. of Ifrael be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land." The deftruction of Gog, or of the enemies of Ifrael, here defcribed, is a great deftruction. It follows a formidable affault made upon the Jews, at fome period which fuc ceeds their return to their own land. The oppofition which they endured from the Samaritans, and the few that were leagued with them, in the time of rebuilding their city under the Perfian monarchs, falls very far below the in fuppofed that this prophecy was vafion here predicted. Some have fulfilled, in the perfecution and laughter of the Jews by Antiochbegan about 170 years before us Epiphanes, king of Syria, which Christ, and in the defeat of the W |