| This fascinating and extremely rare pamphlet, being the outline of a lecture delivered at Scarborough, England in 1859, gives a brief history of American revivals and a very helpful assessment of the 1858-59 awakening, which was currently in progress in the U.S. It is clearly amongst the earliest works on this particular move of God and was possibly one of the means that God used to spread the effects of that revival across the Atlantic to Great Britain. Certainly reports of this kind ignited the prayers of thousands and resulted in simultaneous outbreaks of blessing in Wales, Scotland and England, as well as in various other places worldwide. The overall results were staggering. Edwin Orr states that in the U.S. alone, ‘a million nominal church members were reinvigorated and more than a million converts were added to the membership of major Protestant denominations - out of a population of less than 30 million.’ Similarly, in U.K., ‘churches gained a million new members’ in a population of 27 million!’ |  |