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Excerpt from Minutes of the General Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers of Illinois, at Their Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting, Held in Champaign, May, 1867: With an Appendix
The past year brings the churches of Illinois under renewed obligation to render hearty thanksgiving to the God of all grace, and to devote themselves with quickened faith and zeal to the work of the Lord. Although no sweeping and overwhelming tide of spiritual influence has pre vailed, the latter and former rains have been very generally participated in throughout the whole State. Some unmistakable indications of fertility are adduced by all the twelve District Associations, which compose this Body. Thus, Bureau Association reports the Pray/er Meetings as having been better sustained than ever. Similar testimony is given respecting the Central, the Central East, and West, Fox River Union, Elgin, the Northwestern and South ern Associations. For example, Griggsville reports the average attendance at the regular weekly prayer meeting as 90; the Tabernacle church, Chicago, is reported as sustaining ten regular prayer meetings; some juvenile services for girls and boys apart, attended by forty or fifty, besides the promiscuous gatherings. The Springfield churches have grown so much attached to their Union Prayer Meeting that it. Bids fair to become a permanent institution. Several District Reports allude to the remarkable spiritual power that has characterized the union of the Lord's people where they have met, irrespective of denominational distinctions, with one accord, in one place, for social worship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
