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Title: Times of refreshing : a history of American revivals from 1740-1877, with their philosophy and methods
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Thompson, Charles Lemuel, 1839-1924
Subjects: Revivals
Publisher: Chicago : M.W. Smith
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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sponsible for it. Men set the keyof debates and lectures, but women give the pitch ofconversation. If it be trifling, mainly on them willrest the blame. If ennobling, to them belongs thehonor. But the highest aim of conversation shouldbe to develop life toward its best end. There is onetheme which unfailingly will do it. It is in thepower of women to regenerate society, lift it out ofvapidity and gossip into the noblest realm of humanthou2:ht, by daring to make Christian faith, life andhope, a free and open subject of parlor talk. The worldis to be converted, not by the stately artillery that is.reserved for intellectual battles, but by the impactof heart on heart in office and shop and parlor andkitchen. In this personal address women are peer-less. Let them use their tine intuitions and theirready art of apt and feeling speech for the kingdomof Christ, and they may do more for the spread ofthat kingdom than Mercurius, by his dialectic skill,or Boanerges, by his resounding eloquence.
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!rf)-ajbc^>^ CHAPTEK XVIII. GOSPEL TEMPERANCE.—ITS RISE, PROGRESS AND METHODS. The historian who, from the cahiier distance offuture years, shall review the rise and progress of thetemperance reform in our country will most probablydate the truest progress from Christmas morning,187t^. That date marks the beginning of the Wo-mans Praying Crusade. On Christmas eve Dr. DioLewis was telling the people of Hillsboro, Ohio, the))athetic stor)^ of the first womans crusade. His ownmother, the wife of a drunkard, and a number of otherwomen whose hearts God had touched, visited thesaloon keeper and prayed with and for him; and be-sought him to give up the trathc that was bringingdeath to so many homes. Their prayers were answered—the saloon was closed. The heroism and faith of thatsainted woman seemed to descend upon the audience.They pledged themselves to a like effort to rescue theperishing, and at nine oclock the next morning aband of believing, heart-burdened women gatliered inthe Pr

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