1827 SCARCE Revival Sermon, Presbyterian, How to Promote Revival

2nd Great Awakening

Skinner, Thomas H. A Discourse delivered, June 10, 1827, in the Fifth Presbyterian Church, of Philadelphia, Commemorative of its Dedication. Philadelphia, I. Ashmead, 1827. 1st Edition.

He describes the beginnings of a work of revival, in special weekly meetings, private meetings for prayer, appointed fasts, and concludes, He exerts his hearers to continue on in the work of promoting a revival, and gives pressing reasons for doing so. He says that the signs of the times point to more revival: Never have the American churches known a year like the present. Never has the saving strength of God been so revealed and glorified in our land.

For number, for power, for rich and various fruits, never have such revivals been known in this country since its discovery. No man knows how to pray, or how to speak, or how to live, or how to co-operate in any way, for the advancement of a true revival of religion, except as he partakes of the spirit of such a revival, and that is a spirit which none rightly knows, or welcomes in his heart, but he who has it. But for a brief introduction, this entire sermon focuses on revivals.