PKEFAOE.
 

During the present autumn the Executive Committee of
the Board of Publication of the Reformed Protestant Dutch
Church passed the following resolution:

" Resolved, That the Rev. Dr. Chambers be requested to
prepare a Plistory of the Noon Prater Meetino in the
North Dutch Church, to be published by this Board."

The author undertook to comply with the request with
which he was thus honoured, and this Volume is the result.
It will be perceived at once that it is not a history of the
Revival of 1858, nor even of Noon Prayer Meetings in gene¬
ral, but simply an account of the first of those meetings.
This first one was remarkable in its character, and still more
in its results. For, while there were at the time when it
began, manifestations of the special presence of the Holy
Spirit of God in various Churches in this city, and doubtless
elsewhere also, yet the Consistory building in Fulton street
seems to have been the place where commenced the general
work of Grace, irrespective of particular denominations—■
that general work which spread so rapidly over all parts of
this country and even crossed the sea to the Old World.