12 OCTOBER 1839, Page 7

The Reverend Mr. Burns lots given in to the Presbytery

the follow- ing narrative of the proeeedings at the Kilsyth and Glasgow Revival- " Special instances of go ,1 done are naturally called for. Many memorable eases cau be produced. Selection is difficult. A woman from Airdrie. was ob- served by a few :mond her to be much impressed while Mr. W. C. Barns preached. She at length left the field, and retired for pinyer. After a little she was followed by some praying people, who conversed with her. She seems to have undergone a complete change, and went away in a composed frame. A young gentleman from Glasgow, with whom I and Mr. Brown conversed, who had come with some indefinite notion of good or of being pleased, went home a new man in Christ JeS119. I know of several cases of whole houses being really converted. Mrs. 11. has been converted in a very wonderful way : she had been a very passionate, regardless character, who with her husband and family, spent the Sabbath-day in drinking,, and other tainted enormities : two pious women, unknown to each other, had called upon her, telling her that they could get no rest till they came to warn her of her sin and danger : the poor woman thought within irsaif, it these two are so concerned about me that they cannot get rest, what should be my concern about myself ?—she attended a prayer meeting, came home at midnight, and roused her thmily to tell them of her change of mind. There seems a very remarkable work of grace with the husband, and other branches of the family. " A. B., collier, aged fifty, mm month ago, was upon the road-side on the way from the church, in great agony of mind, when I passed homewards. 1 at tirst thought Ile had been in rim-ink; but it turned out that he had, Hannah-like, been pouring out his heart before the Lord, having got a sight of his sinfulness; he went to his Bible, and prayed ; got heartening as he expressed it, from the thought that had come to him, Shall I. be a castaway ? ' Enabled to lay hold on Christ as the ransomer, and as having paid the debt, he said, ' Come come death, I will depend un his merits and mercies ; ' resolving to he with Christ henceforward. On receiving his token, he said, I used to run from you, but am now happy to meet 1 served Satan fifty years, I am now the Leers.' His two companions, J. S. and. T. A., gave very satisfactory accounts of their change of heart, and are also communicants. The accounts of other cases more detached and interesting must be deferred.

"1 add a very few words in the way of inference.

" L Prayer united, as well as secret, for the bestowal of the Spirit's influ- ence, is most important, and will, sooner or later, be heard. "2. Extra means should be used to bring those without the pale of any church to hear the gospel. The preaching the former smumer in the church- yard once and again, and the late frequent addresses in the market and field, have most certainly brought the word near to many who might have remained to their dying-day without hearing it. Assuredly these means must be used, otherwise our newly-provided churches will remain unoccupied, and, in a great degree useless.

3. There is a close connexiou betwixt missionary work and revivals. Our newly-organind Missionary Saciety, in January this year, has been marked by several people as an :era. No church can be in a lively state when nothing is done for the heathen.

"-I, The social nature of man is an important element in his constitution, and exerts a powerful influence on the state of the church and of the world. There are those who view the weavers' shops as ubjcets of umninoled aversion- as.hotbeds of anarchy ; but when a good influence is made to 'bear tipomi the mauls of the operatives, the facilities far good mm a' proportioned to those for evil—time reviving interest. spreads much quicker than in a rural district. Let every minister of the gospel, and every Christian patriot, keep this steadily in view, and ply the workshops with every good and generous influence. Never let us cease, in good times and bad, to essay to do good, in the morning soit2ng seed, and in the evening withholding not our band; thus are we to sow

beside all waters. God give the increase I W. B. Kilsvtb, Sept. 30th.''

The Presbytery of Glasgow met on the 2d instant. After the usual business had been finished, a private meeting was held, at which cer- tain extravagancies and improprieties of language lately used at Re- vival meetings were discussed. Though no individual names were mentioned, it is understood that the Reverend Messrs. Burns and Sous- merville were the gentlemen alluded to. All the members who spoke strongly condemned every thing like eccentricity or extravagance on the part of those taking part in the Revivals, and expressed the great necessity that existed for the display of more than ordinary prudence. The late hours to which meetings have recently extended were disap- proved of, and a recommendation given, that in future, sermons should be delivered only every alternate evening, and the other evenings de- voted to conversation with such persons as 'night choose to come for- ward.—Glasytac Chronicle.