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Revive Us Again: The Second Great Awakening
I dwell…with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah 57:15
Recommended Reading
Isaiah 57:15-21
After the War of Independence, the influence of Christianity waned. According to historian J. Edwin Orr, "In the wake of the American Revolution came a disastrous setback for Evangelical Christianity." The typical student at Harvard was atheist, says Orr. "Students of Williams College conducted a mock celebration of Holy Communion. When the Dean of Princeton opened the chapel Bible to read, a pack of playing cards fell out… Christians were so unpopular that they met in secret and kept their minutes in code. The radical leader of deist students led a mob in burning the Bible…. The last two decades of the eighteenth century were the darkest period, spiritually and morally, in the history of American Christianity." 1
Then God sent another revival--the Second Great Awakening. It swept over the frontier, turned Ivy League schools upside down, and launched a new generation into global ministry. It's true to say that the Western world is only now shaking off the effects of the Second Great Awakening.
Lord, do it again!
We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again.
G. Campbell Morgan
Read-thru-the-Bible
Habakkuk 1:1 -- Zephaniah 3:20
Haggai 1:1 -- Zechariah 4:14
1 J. Edwin Orr, Campus Aflame (Glendale: G/L Publications, 1971), 19.
I dwell…with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah 57:15
Recommended Reading
Isaiah 57:15-21
After the War of Independence, the influence of Christianity waned. According to historian J. Edwin Orr, "In the wake of the American Revolution came a disastrous setback for Evangelical Christianity." The typical student at Harvard was atheist, says Orr. "Students of Williams College conducted a mock celebration of Holy Communion. When the Dean of Princeton opened the chapel Bible to read, a pack of playing cards fell out… Christians were so unpopular that they met in secret and kept their minutes in code. The radical leader of deist students led a mob in burning the Bible…. The last two decades of the eighteenth century were the darkest period, spiritually and morally, in the history of American Christianity." 1
Then God sent another revival--the Second Great Awakening. It swept over the frontier, turned Ivy League schools upside down, and launched a new generation into global ministry. It's true to say that the Western world is only now shaking off the effects of the Second Great Awakening.
Lord, do it again!
We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again.
G. Campbell Morgan
Read-thru-the-Bible
Habakkuk 1:1 -- Zephaniah 3:20
Haggai 1:1 -- Zechariah 4:14
1 J. Edwin Orr, Campus Aflame (Glendale: G/L Publications, 1971), 19.
