As soon as a man lets his work become a matter of mere form or routine, it sinks into a performance in which the preacher is simply an actor. He is only acting a part, as he might in a play at the theatre, and not speaking from his inmost soul, as a man sent from God. I implore you to speak from your hearts or else don't speak at all.

The Revival of 1800, also known as the Red River Revival, was a series of evangelical Christian meetings which began in Logan County, Kentucky. These ignited the subsequent events and influenced several of the leaders of the Second Great Awakening. The events represented a transition from British traditions to innovations arising from the unique needs and culture of Americans in the new century, especially on the frontier. The startling manifestations of revival fervor that first occurred in June 1800 at the Red River Meeting House, a small Presbyterian congregation led by James McGready, began as a Scottish sacrament service, but led to the important innovation of serial religious services later known as camp meetings. (Wiki)

This is an examination of the works of John Owen that are in volumes 6 and 7 for the new reader trying to understand John Owen's writings and arguments.

The 1857 Manhattan Revival, also known as the Fulton Street Revival or the Great Prayer Revival, began on September 23, 1857, when businessman Jeremiah Lanphier initiated a noon prayer meeting at the North Dutch Reformed Church in lower Manhattan. Despite starting with only one other person, the gathering grew rapidly to six men by 12:30 PM, and within three weeks, forty attendees were praying for the city's spiritual awakening. Economic turmoil from the Panic of 1857, which left 30,000 New Yorkers unemployed, created a desperate atmosphere that fueled the revival's expansion. By November, prayer meetings were held in every church and even filled all floors of the North Dutch building, with 6,000 men reported praying in a single hour. The movement quickly spread to other cities like Cleveland, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, and eventually reached Ireland and Scotland and beyond.

When God sends forth His servants to preach the Gospel the Devil soon after prompts his emissaries to proclaim "another gospel": when God speaks the Devil gives a mocking echo. Satan has found that he can work far more effectively by counterfeiting the Truth than by openly denying it, hence in every age "false prophets" have abounded, and therefore we should be neither surprised nor stumbled by their number or success in our own day.

CASE 12. Shouldn't a person who is not comfortably persuaded of his being a real Christian, abstain from the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, lest he eat and drink damnation to himself? And what method must that person take to satisfy a church of Christ of his being a real Christian, who cannot relate any particular experience of the dealings of God with his soul?