Excerpt from Manual of Revivals: Practical Hints and Suggestions From Histories of Revivals and Biographies of Revivalists But in churches not a few, the highest and steepest difficulty is of a social kind. Their meetings are largely arranged with a view to attract young people and to maintain social amusements. Reunions, festi vals, fairs, sociables, and all that, succeed each other so rapidly, and with such momentum, that church life vies with the world of fashion in keeping out of the mind all thought about our Christian duties and interests. A revival crossing the track of such a train of festivi ties would be as unwelcome as a fire that is devour ng a railroad bridge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Revival Sketches and Manual: In Two Parts IT is now more than thirty years since it struck me that a concise history of revivals from about the beginning of the nineteenth century might be accept able to the churches, as a sort of Christian manual to help the cause of pure and undefiled religion in the present and in the generations following. Having come upon the stage just at the commencement of that memorable epoch, and witnessed many revivals, I was moved to inquire whether the duty of attempting to gather and arrange-the materials for such a history to the praise of sovereign redeeming mercy devolved upon me. I consulted Dr. Griffin on the subject, than Whom few men had larger experience in revivals. He encouraged me to go on, and I made some collection of the narratives, which were within my reach. But I soon became convinced that to do any thing like justice to the glorious theme, Within reasonable lim its, was a task beyond my powers, and for which I then could not command the time. As professional and public duties soon became more exacting and arduo'us, I dismissed the subject, and there the matter rested for more than twenty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.