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Written on Charles Finney's gravestone in Oberlin, Ohio are the subsequent to words: "The Lord Our God be near us as He was with our fathers, may He not bestow us or abandon us."

In study of the marvellous revivals of old, I have longed to see God do in our day what he did in the historical previous of our body politic. As Frank Bartleman, one of the leaders of the Awakening of 1905 at Azusa Street in California, quondam wrote, "To recognize what God is doing and active to do, we must read between the lines what he did in the ultimo." Each waking up in America and for the period of the worldwide has been a budge of God to reconstruct quite a few mislaid component of fact that the Early Church obsessed.

God radius to me in a mirage the tailing statement, "Old wells, fallen mantles and new fountains." He aforesaid that He was active to open the old wells of betterment and awakenings of the past, that the down mantles of anointment and priesthood that savage to the terrain at the decease of the severe men and women of God of the recent would be picked up and situated on creditable men and women of God today to finish what was started long-lasting ago. In addition, He same that He was active to do a new thing, something that had never been finished past in the history of the Church. The function God is reopening the "old wells" of revitalization is that He requirements TOTAL truth improved to the faith. He desires the Church to direct in the potency and anointing of the Early Church. God ever extends a paw of leniency past view falls upon a res publica. The historical tremendous awakenings have ordinarily preceded a event of disaster in our land. I acknowledge that thought looms all over this commonwealth and this contemporaries. This is God's second forgiveness send for before sentiment.

The Lord has given me a tremendous excitement to investigating and sanctum the Great Awakenings of present time departed. Of excessive zest to me is Appalachia. Often unnoticed or ridiculed today, this historic district has been a bed of revival for generations. I believe that this part will be the centre of the side by side Great Awakening. The Lord aforementioned that His Holy Spirit is hovering and contemplative done these picturesque mountains. He did the said in the Book of Genesis a short time ago past He radius "life and light" into beingness. It is surprising that for the period of this district that citizens are gathering in homes, workplaces and in churches to want God, repent and pray for mending. SOMETHING is something like to happen!

The Appalachian old writer of advance and military camp meetings of the Methodists circuit riders were dug as early as 1784. The grave electrical circuit traveller and Bishop Francis Asbury across the Alleghenies into Pocahontas and Greenbrier Counties in West Virginia all year from 1776 until 1815. He followed the old Staunton Turnpike to address devotion where on earth he ministered at all call in. One specified point was at Elizabeth Morrison's hole in Hillsboro, West Virginia. This occupation is called the Little Levels. Great moves of God occurred in Hillsboro. In fact, the Second Great Awakening of 1801 that change integrity in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, came to Hillsboro as the consequences of two immature men who came from Cane Ridge to Hillsboro to part what they had seen and detected. The Second Great Awakening ruptured away within and rapt to Old Stone Presbyterian Church in close Lewisburg and consequently through the stipulate.

One of the first-year churches in the Greenbrier Valley zone (which includes Pocahontas, Greenbrier and Monroe Counties) is Old Rehoboth Church hot Union, Monroe County, West Virginia. It is a small, stalwart frontier log artifact that twofold as a fort if essential to care for opposed to Indian spasm. Asbury sacred this christian church on July 1788. The crowds were so very good that he had to abide in the door and talk to the inhabitants erect right since the creation could not be full of them. Stith Mead taped in his writing about that day. He said, "God manifested Himself in His Spirit's power, the doors were staring and sinners came in, and in that was a acute quivering among the dry percussive instrument. Such a time, I presume, was ne'er seen and practiced at this situate earlier. Ten souls were converted and frequent sinners cut to the heart. The vigorous exercises prolonged dirt well-nigh dusk."

Great meetings were held by Asbury and others at Old Rehoboth. Great men of God, a who's who of recuperation of that day preached at hand. Jesse Lee, William McKendree, Freeborn Garretson, John Tunnell and Francis Poythress. Jesse Lee led a very good move in and out of God and brought revitalization to New England. His primary preaching in Boston was preached low an elm tree since no of the churches would let him in.

The Great Revival of 1842 occurred at Old Rehoboth near all over 100 conversions. This is incredible in display of the fact that this was a sparsely inhabited frontier constituency.

A Great Revival occurred in 1877 beside the Reverend V. W. Wheeler. There were complete 110 conversions.

Great campy meetings were control in "the groves" all finished this realm beside as frequent as 3,000 attending at one instance. River botanist were encrusted by hundreds of new converts waiting to be baptized. God truly "walked the pitch-dark hills" in our historical early in Appalachia. He is looking for "Isaacs" who will open up the wells of their Father.

Much forfeiture was ready-made to dig these old wells of improvement. Asbury, precocious in years, made the next broadcast in his journal piece moving finished the toughened mountains of frontier Pocahontas County, "If I could have weak matter and sleep, I could support the temporary state I have had to go done untold larger. This is unrealistic nether whatsoever fate. To take a nap 4 hours and journeying 40 miles on body part in need provisions or discharge is rough. But we had hose down sufficient in the rivers and creeks. Ah! If I were infantile again!"

An old Methodist past enclosed...."I cognise the world's a-moving on, as Galileo aforementioned. For now I annuity in advance a soft pew to comprehend an writing read, but when done stain-glassed windows the sun throws light-blue and gold, I cannot help a-thinkin' how the Glory shone of old!"

May the Lord our God be next to us as He was near our fathers! May He come back us once again and open up the old wells! HE WILL IF WE FOLLOW 2nd CHRONICLES 7:14!