Charles G. Finney led the great revival in upstate New York (where my great-great grandfather and great-great-great grandparents were saved) and throughout America (called "The Second Great Awakening") in the 1820's. He invented the altar call. He became president of Oberlin College. I have been part of a large prayer meeting in Oberlin, praying around his traveling pulpit for a new revival in northern Ohio.
When there are dissensions, and jealousies, and evil speakings among professors of religion, then there is great need of a revival. These things show that Christians have got far from God, and it is time to think earnestly of a revival.
A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.
There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.
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