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Title: The church in America and its baptisms of fire; being an account of the progress of religion in America, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as seen in the great revivals in the Christian church, and in the growth and work of various religious bodies
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Halliday, Samuel B. (Samuel Byram), 1812-1897 Gregory, D. S. (Daniel Seely), 1832-1915
Subjects: Revivals Sects
Publisher: New York, London : Funk & Wagnalls company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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by the Wesleys and Whitefield in England and byEdwards, Whitefield, and the Tennents in this country—theRevival of 1740, as it has been called—which infused a newspiritual life into the Church. 2d. That of the close of the last and the opening of the pres-ent century—represented by Dr. Griffin, President Dwight, andthe elder Mills, and in its later phase by Nettleton, Finney,and others—which led to the organization of the great agenciesfor the spread of the Gospel, and for reform. 3d. That of the middle of this century—represented by well-nigh all the ministers and churches of 1857-60, and later by suchevangelists as Moody, Mills, and others, and by the SalvationArmy—which called out the hitherto comparatively inactiveLay Element, and led to its world-wide organization into vari-ous societies for Christian work. The interesting materials concerning revivals drawn frommany sources may be conveniently grouped about these move-ments and names, in the three chapters following.
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CHAPTER FIRST. FIRST ERA OF REVIVALS. The Great Awakening of the Eighteenth Century. A LITTLE before the middle of the eighteenth century beganwhat may be called the First Era of Revivals in this country, part Age of of a religious movement that affected and molded Deism. in a most remarkable manner the entire English-speaking world for three quarters of a century. It followedwhat may be called the skeptical age of English history, theage of Deism. England was just emerging from the licentiousage brought, in by the Restoration, which the influence ofWilliam of Orange had not been able wholly to stay, and whichthe accession of the House of Brunswick—with its Germantastes and customs and its hatred of literature, art, and refine-ment, as well as its practical godlessness—helped to continue. The deistical writers, Bolingbroke, Toland, Collins, Wools-ton, Tindal, had been at work all along the line in destroyingthe popular sense of the divineness of Christianity, while theother influe

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