The Great Revival of 1800 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1872. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter vii. testimonies as to the general character of the revival of 1800. tt will give us more confidence in the character and fruits of this vast and mighty work to notice the judgments which were formed of it at the time by capable witnesses, omitting reference to the excesses or peculiarities which appeared about its course in some regions. The Rev. Dr. Heman Humphrey, long President of Amherst College, who was in the Freshman class at Yale in 1802 when the college was visited with such a revival as it had never before known, says in his Revival Sketches: "In looking back fifty years and more, the great revival of that period strikes me, in its thoroughness, in its depth, in its freedom from animal, unhealthy excitement, and its far-reaching influence on subsequent revivals, as having been decidedly in advance of any that had preceded it. It was the opening of a new revival epoch which has lasted now more than half a century, with but short and partial interruptions--and blessed be the God, the end is not yet. "Thus the glorious cause of religion and philanthropy has advanced till it would require a space which cannot be afforded in these sketches, so much as to name the Christian and humane societies which have sprung up all over the land within the last forty years. Exactly how much we at home and the world abroad are indebted for these organizations, so rich in blessing, to the revivals of 1800, it is impossible to say, though much every way--more than enough to magnify the grace of God in the instruments he employed, in the immediate fruits of their labors, and the subsequent harvests springing from the good seed which was ...