By accounts received from various parts of the country it appears that a glorious work of God is ftill going on in many places. God is ftill remembering mercy for a guilty people, and giving fresh teftimonials to the truth of that fcripture promife that "the gates of Hell fhall not prevail against his church." In vain do the enemies of a once fuffering, crucified, tho' now glorious and triumphant Sa

Extract of a letter from one of the
Connecticut Miffionaries, dated
Springfield, Otfego County, State
of New-York, July 23, 1800.
"THE laft fix weeks, I have
fpent in the counties of Otfego and
Delaware. In both thefe counties
there are confiderable awakenings,
which appear to be increafing and
fpreading. They are regular and
orderly, free from that noife and
enthufiafm which fometimes attend
fuch revivals. Meetings in gene-viour boaft in the fuccefs of their
ral are still and folemn, and a pro-
found attention is given to the
fpeaker. Lectures on week days
are often attended by 200 people,
and on the fabbath by 500 or 600.
The towns in Otfego County where
there is a revival at Otfego, Spring-friends of Zion defpair. The late
field and Worcefter; thofe in Del- happy revivals in fo many places
aware County are Delhi, Stam- afford encouragement to them to
ford, Franklin and Walton. In pray importunately and they may
thefe towns there appears to be a be affured that the prayer of faith
glorious work of the divine fpirit, fhall not fail to receive a gracious
and the religious attention in these anfwer. "Chrift fhall fee of the
parts is as great for the time, if not travail of his foul and be fatis-
greater, than it was in the Gene- fied."
fee the laft feafon."

The favorable reception which Miffionaries meet with in the New Settlements, and the attention which is paid to their preaching, while it must infpire the friends of religion with gratitude to him with whom is the refidue of the fpirit, and who only can give the hearing ear and understanding heart, fhould animate them to be liberal in their contributions to the fupport of Miffions and more efpecially fhould it induce them fervently to pray for a divine bleffing to accompany the labors of Miffionaries. The civil and political as well as the religious welfare of our brethen in the New Settlements require that the gospel fhould be preached to them, and that they should be favored with the adminiftration of Chriftian ordinances.

efforts to overthrow Christianity.
They have attempted to diffeminate
the poifon of infidelity far and
wide. They are still attempting to
do this. But the truth is great
and will prevail. Let not the

HYMNS.

Dying reflections of an Infidel.

go?

WHAT fhall I be--where fhall I
I'd give a thoufand worlds to know.
Shall I exift, or fhall I not?
Ceafing to be--I dread the thought-
Does death, in fact, deftroy the whole
And with the body kill the foul?
Reafon, I chofe thee for my guide,
I heard thy voice and none befide,

Come now decide the doubtful ftrife
Some, who thy fole dominion own
Twixt endless fleep and endless life.
As nature's brightest eldeft fon;
Say, thou haft taught the foul will live,
And her account to God must give.
Others deny that this will be,
And both for proof appeal to thee.

I feel, I know that I have fin,
And confcience rages here within.
If there's a God-(I fear 'tis true)
Does he the creature's conduct view?

The experiences of Mifs P. M. written Thy gentle fpirit finds our place,

of the public. They are fenfible they have taken upon themfelves an arduous task; they be fpeak the candor of the friends of religion, and ask their kind affiftance.]

MESSRS. EDITORS,

Fall kinds of intelligence,

inftruction, and knowledge, Thefe have the moft favorable afreligious are the most important. pect on all the interefts of fociety, the greatest influence on the prefent and final happinefs of individ

[THE following piece was, a few days fince, communicated for publication. The Editors hefitated for fome time concerning the propriety of publishing it, on account of the flattering manner in which the writer speaks of the Magazine. But when they reflected that whatever merit there may be in the work is, to be afcribed to the writers of the fey. eral pieces and not to the Edi.uals, and a peculiar tendency to adtors, they concluded to admit the piece. They were further in duced to publish it from the con fideration that it defcribes what is to be the plan of the Magazine. The Editors are happy to find that the work meets with fuch general approbation; and they are determined to make every exertion in their power to procure and publifh fuch things as they fhall judge beft calculated to carry the original plan into execution. Should they fail they cannot reasonably require, nor will they have the prefumption to expect the approbation

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vance the divine glory. The entertainment which they will afford, and the happy effects which they may reasonably be expected to produce, will be in fome proportion in the manner of their communito the variety which there fhall be cation.

What therefore can be more entertaining and useful than a work the Connecticut Evangelical Magwell executed upon the plan of azine? Especially, what can more warm and gladden the hearts of the pious? What can more enlarge their acquaintance with good men and the church univerfal, increase and extend their paternal affection,

and excite their abundant thanksgivings to the benificent author of all our bleflings?

the gofpel, and enable them to commence a pleafing and useful communion with fellow faints, on this fide heaven, of whom other. wife, probably, they would have. had no knowledge, in the prefent ftate. How will this increase their zeal and liberality, awaken and unite their exertions, in the cause of their Redeemer? How will it prefent new objects and occasions of fources prayer, and of joy, thanksgiving and praise? Effays on Chriftian doctrines and duties, on experimental and moral subjects, on the diftinguish

open new

As real piety unites their hearts in fupreme love to one common father, it interests them in all his interefts, in the welfare of his great family, and caufes them to prefer Jerufalem to their chief joy. They rejoice in the divine glories, in the enlargement and profperity of the church, in all her revivals and happy days, and in the falvation of their fellow men in every place, of every country, colour and nation. Their piety, at the fame time, forms a common fel-ing marks of true and false religion, low-fhip, communion and endear- must convey the most necessary and ment among themselves. So far important inftruction, and be unias they are known to one another, verfally interefting and beneficial. they unite in brotherly love, fympathize and rejoice with each other. Their eminence and advancement in knowledge, grace and ufefulness afford them a divine pleafure. When their fellow faints triumph in death, when the power and excellency of religion are manifefted, and God is glorified it ftrengthens their faith, increases their joy, and excites their praise. The more fully they are made known to each other, the more clearly their piety, zeal and usefulness are exhibited, the more thefe happy effects are produced; the more they admire the riches of divine grace, and are provoked to love and good

works.

Hiftorical fketches of various denominations of Chriftians, will enlarge the fund of ecclefiaftical knowledge, bring good people into a nearer acquaintance with each other, exhibit fuch things as are amiable and worthy of imitation in their refpective characters, excite candor and charity, awaken each other to fearch the fcriptures, and to be fure that they believe, worship and practice according to the gofpel, and happily tend to a more general union and reformation.

Judicious narratives of the revival of God's work in various parts, of the effects of them on atheifts, infidels, univerfalifts, the: moft vicious and hardened; humbling and referming finners of all characters; bringing them cheerfully to renounce their errors finful courfes, and with purpose of

and

As your Magazine is defigned to give information with refpect to all these objects, events and things, how will it fubferve these noble purposes? It will greatly extend the knowledge, views and acquaint-heart to cleave unto the Lord, give ance of good people, bring to their ftrong evidence of the truth, powknowledge numerous characters er and excellency of the Chrifdiftinguished for piety and ufeful- tian religion, difplay the fovereignnefs, both in Europe and Ameri-ty, power and grace of the great ca, with their zeal, liberality and Redeemer, and demonftrate that exertions for the furtherance of he has not forfaken, but yet walk

tonifhing is it for peasons to appear on the verge of eternity, at the moment when fummoned to the judgment feat of Chrift, with the enmity and oppofition of devils, proclaiming their hatred of the parents who have deftroyed them, and their wishes never to meet fuch unfaithful and cruel fathers in the world of fpirits? How dread

ception in the last moments, and to go unrelieved and without hope to an eternal doom!

eth in the midst of the golden candlesticks. They ftrengthen the faith and hope of believers. They increase the affurance and joy of those who have experienced the fame things which are generally the effects of fuch precious feafons of grace and falvation. They encourage minifters and good people, in those thirty and dead places where the heavenly dews and show-ful is it to awake out of fatal deers have not fo remarkably fallen, to truft in and pray to God for the fame gracious vifitations. They have also a natural and powerful tendency, to convince hypocrites and formalifts in religion of the fandy foundation on which they are building, and of the fearful end to which they are hastening. They are exceedingly calculated to arreft the attention of all diffolute people, and of those who are at ease in Zion, and destitute of all Chriftian experience, and to warn them to flce from the wrath to come.

The pious lives, the death-bed joys and triumphs of eminent Chrif tians, will have the fame good effects. They are calculated to make the most deep and lafting impreffions on the mind. Who can

- read the sketch of the life and death of Clariffa, and not wish to live and die like that happy youth? Who can read the pious and inimitably tender lines of Sthenia, in the parting hour, and not be melted into tendernefs? Not be instructed, warmed and made better? Nay who can read them, and her own reflections on the mournful occafion, and not remember them?

The lives, the death bed fears, tremblings, and horrors of the wicked, painted in their true colours, are exceedingly impreffive and useful. What can be more awful and alarming than the lives and deaths of Diphormia and Rubricus: How tremendous and af

Explanations of difficult paffages of fcripture, narrations of remarkable providences, and efpecially differtations on fuch prophecies, as relate to this eventful period, and exhibit the signs of the prefent time, will be received as new, feasonable, and of incalculable importance. They will be read with the avidity and pleasure, with which the mifer grafps his gold, or the husbandman gathers the delicious and enriching fruits of the field.

As variety is one of the principal beauties of nature, one of the most pleasing features in the face of creation, fo that variety of matter, representation and instruction which the magazine is defigned to comprise, is a peculiar excellence, and will add not a little to its worth and entertainment. Indeed as the united tendency of the whole is to promote the most useful knowledge, to advance piety, righteousness, the kingdom and glory of the Redeemer, fo nothing can be more highly and univerfally important and ufeful. The plan is judiciously adapted to the era and state of the Redeemer's kingdom, and to the religious feelings, views and defires of his fubjects, and if the work is well executed it cannot fail of a welcome and general reception, among all pious and ingenious people.