Tuesday Morning

Our space will only allow us to give a brief notice of the different addresses and other subjects of interest in those meetings. The first meeting was appointed at eight o’clock on Tuesday morning for prayer, in the Pillar-room of the Rotunda. Many were assembled, in spite of the cold wind and frost, soon after half-past seven, and were seen there apparently in quiet waiting upon God, before the light enabled persons to recognize each other distinctly. No man presided at these meetings and no one was called on to pray. The Lord was recognized “in the midst.” With the exception of singing two hymns and reading the first chapter of the first epistle of John, this meeting, which continued to half-past-nine, was one continuous out-pouring of heart in fervent prayer to God. The brevity and simplicity of the prayers, and the emphatic way in which many asked in the name of Jesus, were very striking. After this, many breakfasted together, when it was manifest that the intercourse was on the things of God. Prayer, praise, and reading the scripture occupied again some portion of the time before noon, when the next meeting at the Rotunda was held.