Letters on Revival or Revival Fire Charles G. Finney CONTENTS. To do all this, you must set yourself to work to consider your sins. II. Children will be trained up in the way they should go, and there will be no such torrents of worldliness, and fashion, and covetousness, to bear away the piety of the Church, as soon as the excitement of a revival is withdrawn. People fall into a mistake on this subject, from not making the laws of mind the object of thought. This was a brand-new way of thinking, completely at odds with the Great Awakening, completely at odds with the Calvinistic view of the revival of religion. No, the human mind is not moved in this way. Together with several other evangelical leaders, his religious views This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. It is very desirable that the Church should go on steadily in a course of obedience without these excitements. 2 CONTENTS LECTURE ONE: What a Revival of Religion Is 3 LECTURE TWO: When a Revival is to be Expected 13 LECTURE THREE: How to Promote a Revival 22 LECTURE FOUR: Prevailing Prayer 31 He brought the Word of God forth with clarity and power. Your sins were committed one by one; and as far as you can come at them, they ought to be reviewed and repented of one by one. Please try again. I will state some of the reasons why these things are essential to effectual prayer. For he that wavereth, is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed" (James. And after they had been thus revived, it would be but a short time before there would be so many counteracting influences brought to bear upon them, that religion would decline, and keep on declining, till God could have time, so to speak, to convict them of sin by His Spirit, and rebuke them by His providence, and thus so gain the attention of the masses to the great subject of salvation, as to produce a widespread awakening. "For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith"(20-23). Many good men have supposed, and still suppose, that the best way to promote religion is to go along uniformly, and gather in the ungodly gradually, and without excitement. It is man's duty. - Hosea 10:12. . The state of the world is still such, and probably will be till the millennium is fully come, that religion must be mainly promoted by means of revivals. Religion is the work of man. They pay no attention to their own hearts, and never know whether they are doing well in religion or not; whether they are gaining ground or going back; whether they are fruitful, or lying waste. "And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig-tree dried up from the roots. The attempt is now in making to do it by education, and other cautious and gradual improvements. John Knox was a man famous for his power in prayer, so that Queen Mary of England used to say that she feared his prayers more than all the armies of Europe. ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES OF PREVAILING PRAYER. When evening came, more assembled than could be accommodated in the house. People often ask: "How shall I offer such prayer? No man can make himself feel in this way, merely by trying to feel. 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