| Days of Grace in Manchuria begins with a brief sketch of the life
and ministry of William Chalmers Burns who, after experiencing powerful
revivals in Scotland, went to China as the first missionary of the
Presbyterian Church of England, in June, 1847 where he laboured until
his death in 1868. Though his ministry was mainly seed-sowing many
recognize his work as an essential forerunner of the revival that
later occurred.
This book records that gracious outpouring of the Holy Spirit which
began in 1908 mainly through the ministry of Jonathan Goforth. He
had visited Korea to observe the revival there and fuel was added
to his passion for God to use him powerfully by reading the writings
of Finney and Edwards.
At Mukden, where he was a speaker, an elder’s confession
ignited revival and eight hundred were convicted, confessed sin
and subsequently made restitution. Thereafter the revival spread
to other cites in Manchuria where the Presbyterians alone recorded
1,300 baptisms in five years.
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