FROM

THE

MILLENNIAL HARBINGER,

NEW SERIES.

VOLUME II.-----NUMBER VI.

B E T H A N Y, VA. JUNE, 1838.

JACKSONVILLE, Illinois, March 1st, 1838.      

      We have had a very uncommon religious excitement here. Our church has met for five or six weeks every night, and often in the day. We have received and baptized about fifty--the Methodists double, and the Presbyterians and Congregationalists a large number. We yet meet every night. The town is revolutionized. To-morrow we move from town by necessity to our farm. Every thing is gloomy here but religion, and this unchristianly divided. About twelve miles from this I have attended a place several times: about 15 were received and baptized. We need holy, zealous preachers, and many of them. Would to God the churches in the East would send us some at their own expense! If not, the sects who are pouring their preachers amongst us, will sweep the valley of the Mississippi.

B. W. STONE.      

      What a sudden change! This old brother was quite despondent of the cause in his vicinity in his last communication a few days before.--A. C.

[The Millennial Harbinger (June 1838): 283.]

      Barton W. Stone's report in "News from the Churches" was first published in The Millennial Harbinger, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 6, 1838. The electronic version of the report has been produced from the College Press reprint (1976) of The Millennial Harbinger, ed. Alexander Campbell (Bethany, VA: A. Campbell, 1838), p. 283.

      Pagination in the electronic version has been represented by placing the page number in brackets following the last complete word on the printed page. I have let stand variations and inconsistencies in the author's (or editor's) use of italics, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in the report. Emendations are as follows:

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      Addenda and corrigenda are earnestly solicited.

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Derry, PA 15627-9770
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