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About me My name is David Russell. I am a collector of world wide stamps. I also collect picture postcards in mint condition from all over the world "Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil." - Joel 2:12,13 An authentic account of Revival In the year 1835, Titus Coan landed on the shore belt of Hawaii. On his first tour multitudes flocked to hear him. They thronged him so that he had scarcely time to eat. Once he preached three times before he had a chance to take breakfast. He felt that God was strangely at work. In 1837 the slumbering fires broke out. Nearly the whole population became an audience. He was ministering to 15,000 people. Unable to reach them, they came to him, and settled down to a two years' camp meeting. There was not an hour day or night when an audience of from 2,000 to 6,000 would not rally to the signal of the bell. There was trembling, weeping, sobing, and loud crying for mercy, sometimes too loud for the preacher to be heard; and in hundreds of cases his hearers fell in a swoon. Some would cry out, "the two-edged sword is cutting me to pieces". The wicked scoffer who came to mock dropped like a dog and cried, "God has struck me"! Once while preaching in the open field to 2,000 people, a man cried out, "what must I do to be saved"? and prayed the publican's prayer, and the entire congregation took up the cry for mercy. For half an hour Mr. Coan could get no chance to speak, but had to sit still and see God work. Quarrels were made up, drunkards reclaimed, adulterers converted, and murderers revealed and pardoned. Thieves returned stolen property. And sins of a lifetime were renounced. In one year 5,244 joined the Church. There were 1,705 baptized on one Sunday. And 2,400 sat down at the Lord's table, once sinners of the blackest type, now saints of God. When Mr. Coan left he had himself received and baptized 11,960 persons. HOW MAY WE SECURE SUCH AN OUTPORING OF THE SPIRIT? First we have to deal with the issue of sin. then we must commit ourselves to prayer and fasting. Finally, we must be obedient to the "Great Commission". | ||
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