Category: Revival

  • The Key to Every Revival and Great Awakening

    The Key to Every Revival and Great Awakening

    NEW YORK CITY, 1857 — Jeremiah Lanphier opened the North Dutch Church on Fulton Street in the financial district of Manhattan for a prayer meeting. Six showed up a half-hour late. 14 came the next week. 23 after that. Then 40. Next, revival spread like wild fire. Soon, this once meager weekly prayer meeting mushroomed…