1859 LORENZO DOW. Beautiful Biography of Revivalist, Camp-Meeting Preacher. Cane Ridge, Visions, Dreams, &c. PuritanA superbly preserved copy of a revivalist classic. Lorenzo Dow [1777 1834] was the most popular preacher of his era, preaching to more people than any other in the world. His autobiography was, for years, only outsold by the Bible. He typified the Second Great Awakening period; he was a loud, searching, physical preacher and almost single handedly invented what we today think of as the "camp meeting," revivalist, or Pentecostal style of preaching. He
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the church was in crisis
In the morning after Breakfast walked into the village
Self-examination is a Duty incumbent upon Mankind at all times
Contents include: The Pilgrim's Progress in the Nineteenth Century [continued from the previous year]
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O enable me to taste of thy grace
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the puritan historian and friend of James
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
*Revival of Religion in Kingston