Charles G. Finney 10/13 Monday Meditation

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.