Mr. C. says, "I would advise an adherence to _ordinary services_; for these being evidently scriptural and reasonable," &c. It is a pity he does not tell us what _are_ the "ordinary services that are scriptural and reasonable." Our Lord "taught daily in the temple," Luke xix. 47. The first converts at Jerusalem "continued daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house," Acts ii. 46. Paul told the elders of the church at Ephesus, "that by the space of three years he ceased not to warn every one night and day." Acts xx. 31. These are scriptural services, and I suppose they are reasonable too. As to "ordinary services," they differ in different churches; some having one, and others having three or four, on the Sabbath; some having no service, and others having several, during the "six days." It is frequently mentioned to the honour of Whitefield and Wesley, that they preached almost every day in the week. The services that were "ordinary" to these good men would be extraordinary to most of our churches and ministers. Mr. C.'s advice to the churches is virtually, "Continue to go on as you do; quicken not your pace; devise no liberal scheme different from what you have already in operation; if you hear of other churches doing a great deal of good, by employing different means from those which you employ, regard it not; 'no plan can prove serviceable that is learned only from hearsay.' Above all things, carefully avoid whatever is extraordinary in the service of God." Mr. C. would make an admirable reformer! A statement of a few facts will be the best reply to what Mr. C. says about revival meetings in England. In this part of the country, six revival meetings have been held within the last nine or ten months, at four of which I have been present. None of the evils of which he speaks occurred at any of these meetings; they were attended by ministers and members of different denominations of Christians, most of whom expressed, not merely their approbation of the services, but their gratitude to God for the great spiritual delight they experienced in attending them. I believe every church that has held one of these meetings feels anxious that it should be repeated. Since they were held, some have been added to our churches, who state that it was whilst attending them that they first felt the importance of religion. Last Sabbath, three were added to the church at Lincoln, to whom these meetings were greatly blessed; and I hope in a few weeks to baptize three others who can say the same. What are Mr. C.'s flippant remarks when weighed in the balance with these facts? JOHN CRAPS. _Lincoln, February, 5th, 1835._ WIDOWS' FUND. _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._