The Church in America and Its Baptisms of Fire

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Excerpt from The Church in America and Its Baptisms of Fire: Being an Account of the Progress of Religion in America, in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, as Seen in the Great Revivals in the Christian Church, and in the Growth and Work of Various Religious Bodies The object of the present work is to give a general view of the religious progress of the last two centuries, in this country. In the hurry and bustle of the busy world in its secular affairs, the things unseen are apt to be overlooked and forgotten in the attention to things seen, so that the temporal and unimportant come to obscure or blot out the eternal and all-important. In this way the story of the great spiritual awakenings, so familiar to all Christians a generation ago, has been lost sight of, and therefore no longer acts as an inspiration to revival and activity in the present age. In like manner, in the hue and cry of skepticism, the advancement of the great religious bodies, especially in the department of missions, is seldom brought before the minds of the Christian public except in a desultory and fragmentary way, so that the progress of religion in general has largely passed over into the region of things unknown, and ceased to be regarded as of any importance, or to be regarded with any interest, if regarded at all. The aim of these pages is to bring again and freshly before the mind the remarkable religious facts of comparatively recent religious history and activity. These facts will be treated under the following divisions: Part I. - "The Baptisms of Fire" in the American Church, or the Story of the Religious Awakenings in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Part II. - The Story of Recent Progress, in Growth and Work, of Various Representative Religious Bodies. 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.