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Answered Prayer
Pray our nation to have another visitation.
In New York's Manhattan in 1857 thousands attended noon meetings, reported newspaper editor Horace Greeley. In Portland, Oregon, a half century later, department stores closed for prayer. Spiritual conditions in the United States deteriorated in the middle of the 19th century. People were making money "hand over fist,” and when they did, they turned their backs on God. But a man of Prayer, Jeremiah Laniphier started a prayer meeting in the upper room of the Consistory Building of the Dutch Reformed Church in Manhattan. He advertised it. Only six people (from a population of one million) showed up. But the following week there were 14, and then 23. They decided to meet every day. Soon they filled the Dutch Reformed Church, the Methodist Church on John Street, then every public building in downtown New York. Famed newspaper editor Horace Greeley sent a reporter with horse and buggy riding around the prayer meetings to see how many men were praying. In one hour, he could only get to 12 meetings, but he counted 6,100 men. Then a landslide of prayer began. People began to be converted (10,000 a week) in New York City. The movement spread throughout New England. Church bells would bring people to prayer at eight in the morning, twelve noon, and six in the evening. The revival went up the Hudson and down the Mohawk. Baptists had so many people to baptize, they couldn't get them into their churches. They went down to the river, cut a big square in the ice, and baptized them in cold water. In one year, more than one million people were converted. The revival crossed the Atlantic, broke out in Northern Ireland and Scotland and Wales and England, South Africa, South India anywhere there was an evangelical cause, there was revival and its effect was felt for 40 years. It began in a movement of prayer and it was sustained by a movement of prayer. The 1905 Revival The Shaking of a Nation That movement lasted a generation, but at the turn of the 20th century there was need of awakening again. There were special prayer meetings at Moody Bible Institute, at the Keswick Convention in New England, in Melbourne, in the Mildrey Hills of India, at Won San in Korea…all around the world people were praying that there might be another great awakening in the 20th century. God did indeed answer these prayers -- in 1905. Let me give you two examples: first the student world. One of the leaders of the revival of 1905 was a young man of the Ivy League who later became perhaps the world’s most famous professor of world missions. When he was at Yale in 1905, 25% of the student body was enrolled in prayer meetings and bible studies. The ministers of Atlantic City reported that of a population of 50,000 in that city, they knew of only 50 adults who were unconverted. In Portland Oregon, two hundred and forty grocery and department stores closed from 11 to 2pm for prayer and signed an agreement among themselves so that no one would cheat and stay open. That’s what happened in the United States in 1905. That revival of 1905 in the United States was linked to the famous Welsh revival of 1904, which swept like a tidal wave over Wales---where 100,000 people were converted in a 5 month period. Five years later, J. P. Morgan wrote a book to debunk the revival. His main criticism was that of the 100,000 that joined churches in the 5 months of the revival, after 5 years, only 80,000 still stood. Only 80,000? The social impact of the Wales revival was astounding, Judges were presented with white gloves as they had no cases to try. No rapes, no robberies, no burglaries, no embezzlements, nothing. The District Consuls held emergency meetings to discuss what to do with the police, now that they were unemployed. Drunkenness was cut in half. The illegitimate birth rate dropped 44 percent in two counties within a year of the beginning of the revival, so great was its impact… By J. Edwin Orr. We are available to come to your meeting church to impart the Fathers Love and a hunger and thirst to dwell in the secret place of the Most High under the shadow of the Almighty. Ps.91 To be changed by God where mans efforts have failed. goodreport4u@yahoo.com |
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