Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Southern Methodist Pulpit, Vol. 4: June, 1851
-make long prayers, praying all over the face of the earth, and for almost any and every thing, except a present blessing up on our present labors? Shall we preach long sermons of an hour and a half, upon some abstruse subject, and then put up some one to exhort as long as the minister ought to have preached? Why this is intolerable during a revival. We want spirited spiritual songs and hymns, and the more of them Selected from our own hymn book the bottom - we we nt short, Spiritual, spirited prayers, - we want short, spiritual, spirited. Sermons and exhortations, - we want arrows of truth winged with fire, to ?y in every direction and quiver in the hearts of sinners. During a revival, every thing should move promptly. To the time, and with life, spirit, power. See that preacher who has bedewed his circuit 'with tears and consecrated it with prayers; he has appointed a two days' meeting with the hope' of protracting it; on the sabbath some one, two, or more peni. tents present themselves at the altar for prayer, and now his very soul leaps within him for joy at the prospect of a revival; he appoints prayer meeting at nine o'clock on Monday mor ?ing, never dreaming but that the hearts of the membership are all on fire to see the work of the Lord move gloriously on ward, - never dreaming but that they will be there at the hour. Appointed, ready to shed a tear, and to offer a prayer in be half of those who are seeking redemption in Christ. Nine o'clock comes, and the preacher is there, and perhaps the good brother and sister with whom he passed the preceding night. Quarter past nine, - no one else is to be seen! Half past nine, -he discovers the class leader, and one or two oth ers moping up towards the place appointed for worship! Ten o'clock finds him with ten or a dozen souls! Perhaps he may have better luck at candle-lighting, so far at least as num bers are concerned; and now, cast (loan but not destroyed, he must go to work, and preach, and pray, and exhort for days and nights, before he can get. The members sufficiently excited and interested to buckle on the armor and go to work in real good earnest. There sit some of the sisters, and over there spine of the brethren, dispersed about among the unconverted.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
