15 Revivals broke out everywhere in 1857, spreading throughout the United States and world. Before long all the space was taken, and other churches also began to open up for businessmen’s prayer meetings. Six attended the first week, 20 the next, then 40, then they switched to daily meetings.
The first meeting was set for September 23–three weeks before the Bank Panic of 1857. He prayed, “Lord, what would you have me do?” Concerned by the anxious faces of businessmen on the streets of New York City, Lanphier decided to open the church at noon so businessmen could pray. In 1857, the North Dutch Church in New York City hired a businessman, Jeremiah Lanphier, to be a lay missionary.
13 By 1850 the nation’s population exploded fourfold to 23,000,000 people, but those connected to evangelical churches grew nearly tenfold from 7% to 13% of the population–from 350,000 to 3,000,000 church members! 14 The Businessmen’s Revival of 1857-1858 An unparalleled 100,000 were converted in Rochester, New York, in 1831 alone–causing the revival to spread to 1,500 towns. 12 In 1824, Charles Finney began a career that would eventually convert 500,000 to Christ. Gardiner Spring reported that for the next 25 years not a single month passed without news of a revival somewhere. The resulting camp meeting revivals drew thousands from as far away as Ohio. 9 Presbyterian minister James McGready presided over strange spiritual manifestations in Logan County, Kentucky. In 1800, only one in 15 of America’s population of 5,300,000 belonged to an evangelical church. An estimated 80% of America’s 900,000 Colonists personally heard Whitfield preach. 5 Starting in Philadelphia in 1739, George Whitfield’s dramatic preaching was like striking a match to the already-underway awakening. Three hundred souls converted in six months–in a town of only 1,100 people! 4 The news spread like wildfire, and similar revivals broke out in over 100 towns. He wrote, “ had been one of the greatest company-keepers in the whole town.” 3 He feared her conversion would douse the flame, but quite the opposite took place. After months of fruitless labor, he reported five or six people converted–one a young woman. In December 1734, the first revival of historic significance broke out in Northampton, Massachusetts, where a young Jonathan Edwards was pastor. Revivals in America: A Well-Traveled Road The Great Awakening, 1734-43 The larger the geography a revival covers, the greater the tendency to call it an awakening.Īmerica has a deep, rich history of revivals and awakenings.
Revival and awakening are, generally, synonyms. 2 People sense the presence of God powerfully conviction, despair, contrition, repentance, and prayer come easily people thirst for God’s word many authentic conversions occur and backsliders are renewed. That’s about as clear a definition as we’ll ever get! During a revival, God supernaturally transforms believers and non-believers in a church, locale, region, nation, or the world through sudden, intense enthusiasm for Christianity.
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In describing what happened in Jonathan Edward’s Northampton, Massachusetts church in 1734, observers said, “It pleased God…to display his free and sovereign mercy in the conversion of a great multitude of souls in a short space of time, turning them from a formal, cold, and careless profession of Christianity, to the lively exercise of every Christian grace, and the powerful practice of our holy religion.” 1
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