'We continue to receive gratifying accounts of the revival in the North.
In Edinburgh the interest in the work continues with little abatement. The
daily noonday prayer-meeting in the Free Church Assembly Hall is well attended,
never less than 1000 being present.
Dundee has been visited by Messrs. Moody and Sankey, and the blessed results of
the awakening which has followed is felt in all the churches of that town.
They are now in Glasgow, holding meetings there daily, and their services have
attracted such congregations, that even the large buildings where they were
held have not afforded sufficient accommodation. Each day at noon meetings have
taken place in Wellington Street United Presbyterian Church. Services have been
held every evening in the Barony Church, and the Barony Free Church; and there
have also been meetings in several other churches and halls in different parts
of the city, and in the suburbs.
The Rev. Andrew A. Bonar (Glasgow) thus describes a meeting held one evening in
the City Hall, which consisted wholly of men, invited by ticket: "The very
look of the meeting was solemnising - such a sea of faces, every face looking
at the speaker with fixed and intense earnestness. 'Except a man be born again'
was the subject. There had been much prayer offered in prospect of this
gathering of men, and it was answered. The Spirit assuredly was working, so
that from time to time the whole mass of souls seemed moved and bent down under
the truth. The hymns sung, too, appeared to have a wonderful power on that
audience of men. When at the close those were invited to remain longer who were
on the Lord's side, or wished to be, above a thousand kept their places; and
when, after four brief prayers had been offered in succession, they were let
go, a large number of anxious souls remained. Many of these last were very
deeply concerned. In short, it was one of those meetings that can never be
forgotten. ' The power of the Lord was present to heal.' "
In another letter, Mr Bonar writes: " We heard in private many interesting
cases that cannot be published, but which will soon be felt. One, however, I
may mention. A man went to pay a debt long due; surprise was expressed at his
coming on that errand, but he explained all by saying, 'I was brought to Christ
last week.' Is not this a brother of Zacchaeus? (Luke xix. 8) We shall see
speedily much more of such fruits in all classes of society." '
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