a singular and most interesting one. He is almost deaf, yet gifted with a wonderful talent for understanding what is said to him, engaging in all the services of religion, praise, prayer, and reading the Scriptures, with the greatest delight, and confessing himself strengthened by thus waiting upon God. It was partly through his influence that his brothers and other members of the Orange Society kept the Twelfth of July here as it was never kept before.

"In revenge for the supposed injury of purchasing and pulling down a public house, an Orange hall was erected in the immediate neighborhood of the church and manse, as a rallying-point for the brethren who, night after night, met with fife and drum, and noisy clamor, to annoy the quiet dwellers in their homes in the neighborhood, and especially myself. But the Lord did not pass over them; and they too, as well as others, underwent a great change, and we hope a permanent one.

"Before the Twelfth came, I was asked by these men, whom I had looked upon as bitter enemies to me, and to the cause of religion and morality, if I would meet them on the evening of that day, and hold a prayer-meeting in their hall. I at once consented to do so, on being assured that there would, during the day, be no party display, and no intoxicating drink used. The morning was ushered in with no firing of guns, no beating of drums, and no display of party banners. All was still and calm as a Sabbath. It was a holiday among the people, all labor being suspended; and, early in the forenoon, men and women in holiday attire, were seen in groups, here and there, marching along, not with Orange Lillies, but with Bibles in their hands, as if going on a Sabbath morning to the house of God. A deputation, including the master of the Lodge, waited on me in the manse, and requested me to go over to the hall and pray with them, before proceeding to

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a field at some distance, where they were to meet others, and engage in religious exercises.

“With Bibles in their hands, and peace and good will in their hearts, with no music playing, no flags flying, and with no jar of whiskey to refresh them on the march, they walked soberly and decently, and in good order, to the field, where many hundreds met them, and joined them in praise and prayer, and other religious exercises."

"The month before the revival in this neighborhood," says the Rev. J. Geddes, (County Tyrone) "was a ferment-nightly maulings, law proceedings, etc. Since the movement began, not a drum has been struck in the bounds, and the leading Orangemen meet and pray for the Romanists, whom a little ago they hated."

"There is an Orange Lodge in this neighborhood," says the Rev. J. Elliott, Clarkesbridge, (County Monaghan) "which is composed of some forty young men. They meet monthly, and each contributed a fixed sum at every meeting for the purpose of procuring refreshments, which consisted almost entirely of whiskey. So much as £13 has been expended in one year in this way. They now meet principally for religious exercises-singing, prayer, or reading God's word. They continue their monthly contributions, and twice since July have asked me to expend a very considerable sum for the purchase of books for a library which they have established, and which is likely very soon to contain a large and valuable collection of books. Now they never have any intoxicating drinks in their meetings.

"If such a powerful and united body as Orangemen now yield to religious conviction, and the spirit of the gospel of peace turn their lodges and gatherings into prayermeetings, and their collections for feasting into library and missionary contributions, as I have heard of being done,

may we not say that the Spirit of the Lord has gone forth among the Protestants of Ulster ?”

From Newtonards the following statement is given:

"In passing through districts where the noisy laughter of the fool, or the impure language of the profane was wont to be heard, the voice of Psalms caught the ear in all directions. The Twelfth of July, the anniversary of Satan as well as of the Orangemen, came and went, and left no trace behind. 'Not a drum was heard,' not an arch was erected, not a shot was fired. The prayer-meetings took place as usual-were thronged as usual."

From Broughshane the following is given:

"On the Twelfth of July, the Orangemen of the district asked me to preach them a sermon. About four thousand assembled in the open air, without beat of drum, or any insignia of their order, and, after engaging in religious exercises, returned peaceably to their homes; no drink and no disorder appearing among them. On the Broughshane June Fair day, a band of strolling players, as usual, made their appearance; a prayer-meeting was immediately convened opposite their showy platform. The players had but two visitors, in the persons of two Roman Catholic policemen. The business of the fair was summed up by a prayer-meeting of not less than five thousand people."

"Not less than twenty Roman Catholics came under the power of the truth, and were made to acknowledge the errors of the church of Rome. Three of these were rebaptized, at their own urgent request, and afterwards admitted to the Lord's Supper. The others still attend the prayer-meetings, and, now and again, the public worship of the sanctuary."

Ladies' prayer-meetings in Broughshane.-"In one district of country, almost all the matrons within an area of more than two miles were graciously visited and converted

in the most satisfactory and conclusive manner, if we can speak about another's conversion at all. These women have exercised a mighty influence on their families and neighborhood; and if one wishes to see the religion of the cross in her loveliest features, in the simplicity, beauty, and power of primitive times, he has but to pay this district a visit, and see and hear for himself. I have no doubt he will return, saying, as the Queen of the South, the half had not been told him.

"The gift of prayer bestowed on these matrons is beyond conception, and certainly is not left to rust. They have a prayer-meeting of their own-none but females being admitted--the exercises of which are praise, prayer, and reading the Scriptures, without note or comment. This meeting has tended greatly to fan the flame of love in their own hearts, and kindle it in others who come. We have many such female prayer-meetings, and I am satisfied of their utility.

"The Holy Spirit, we rejoice to say, has not been as a wayfaring man with us. His gracious operations have not as yet ceased. From time to time we have been constrained to note unmistakable signs of his power and presence. Seldom does a week elapse without some groping, hoping, praying soul finding Christ, and pardon, and peace, in a way more or less marked and visible. Frequently our prayer-meetings have experienced a sudden, mysterious, and overpowering impulse, swaying the whole assembly as one man, and leaving all weeping, praying, rejoicing. Men have felt as if the Lord had breathed on them.

"The thirst of the young for Sabbath school instruction is intense and insatiable. Not less than fourteen hundred children attend, every Sabbath morning, desiring the sincere milk of the word, while my own class averages some

eighty young men and women. We are reading the 'Confession of Faith,' and have circulated, through the congregation, some two hundred and fifty copies of it, with about. an equal number of 'Patterson's Shorter Catechism.' Social meetings for prayer, reading the Scriptures, and exhortation, are held throughout the parish, each district having its own prayer-meeting, and each prayer-meeting its own staff of conductors. No person is allowed to engage in the services unless approved of by this bench of managers. These meetings are attended, with very few exceptions, by the whole population-young and old, rich and poor, Episcopalians and Roman Catholics, taking pleasure in listening to the simple prayers and earnest exhortations of their Presbyterian neighbors. The interest in them is still well sustained; and in the darkest, fiercest nights of winter, and now, in the busiest days of seed-time, the number of those who meet together to thank and praise the Lord has not diminished. The Bible is the book of constant study. Many carry it about with them, and read it by the wayside, or at intervals in their labor, and refer to it for the settlement of every disputed point. Two of our National school houses have been enlarged, in order to make them capable of accommodating the prayer-meetings.”