The Athens Post

A SCENE AT A GROCERY.

The following article is from a correspondent, a minister, of the Christian Observer. It refers to the occurrences of a revival at Cornersville, Giles county:

About midnight, a messenger was sent to our lodgings, saying that Mr. F. at the grocery, wished to see Brother D. He went, and there he found this seller of destruction, down upon his bed, in the deepest agony of conviction, crying for mercy at the top of his voice. As soon as Brother D. spoke to him, "Ah! (said he,) this is a bad place, Parson, but I could not help it to save my life." And there he lay making the most heartfelt acknowledgments of his sins against God and man. Conscience and memory, under the energising influence of God's Spirit, made him review his life, and reveal his secret sins with a minuteness and particularity truly astonishing. He even referred to his father's death; and repeated his dying counsel and pious admonitions to him, when he was almost in his infancy. He sent for persons with whom he had been at enmity, and asked their forgiveness, and sought their reconciliation.

Candor, humility, deep-toned repentance, and hearty submission, seemed to characterize his whole deportment. The scene produced a powerful impression on others-(for by this time the house was full, composed of saints and sinners)-and after conversing with him sometime, and praying for him, and singing some of the songs of Zion, in this synagogue of Satan, surrounded with the implements of death, this individual, together with his partner in this nefarious traffic, and another individual, all professed to find peace in believing in Jesus Christ. And thus the gate of hell was converted into the gate of heaven, and the place where once was wont to be heard the blasphemies of the wicked and the songs of the drunkard, resounded with the glad shouts of new born souls, and the adoring songs of happy Christians.

The keepers of the other grocery were also converted afterwards, and the consequence was, that the doors of both the groceries in the place were immediately shut, and remained so for ten days, until the close of the meeting, when the proprietors, disgusted with their occupation disposed of their effects, and engaged in something else more laudable and beneficial.