The widespread revivals of the first decade of the nineteenth century saved the church of Christ in America from its low estate and girded it for stupendous tasks that were about to be devolved on it.
After the revivals of 1800 these Christian colleges were not only attended by students coming from zealous and fervid churches; they themselves became the foci from which high and noble spiritual influences were radiated through the land.
The revivalsceased and the membership actually dwindled.
In the last year or two there have been several Shakespearean revivals of notable interest, and some new histrionic triumphs have been won.
For every thousand pounds that Charles Kean laid out at the Princess's Theatre on scenery and other expenses of production, Phelps in his most ornate revivals spent less than a fourth of that sum.
The pleasure which recent Shakespearean revivals offer the spectator reaches him mainly through the eye.
More especially is it distasteful when the immediate outcome is, as in the case of many Shakespearean revivals at the great West-end theatres of London, the giving of pleasure to large sections of the community.
In the revivals of the time of Jonathan Edwards, and onward, it was confidently believed that the millenium had dawned.
The theory of revivals had been greatly extended, or pushed to an extreme, which we hardly know how to describe; and the application of it overran the country in this new form.
Why then are not miracles and revivals of religion constant and uniform?
We still wait for a complete discussion of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, and believe that widespread revivals will follow the recognition of the omnipotent Agent in revivals.
I do not believe that much good will come from attempts at sudden revivals made without previous prayerful labor.
It is my conviction that there are revivals which are not of God at all, but are produced by excitement merely.
Nor for revivalsof the competing systems, though all have their advocates.
This is why there is manifest so little of that deep, abiding work of the Spirit of God which markedrevivals in former years.
Popular revivals are too often carried by appeals to the imagination, by exciting the emotions, by gratifying the love for what is new and startling.
Here is to be found the secret of the lack of the Spirit and power of God in the revivals of our time.
But many of the revivals of modern times have presented a marked contrast to those manifestations of divine grace which in earlier days followed the labors of God’s servants.
The fruits of such revivals were seen in souls who shrank not at self-denial and sacrifice, but rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer reproach and trial for the sake of Christ.
In many of the revivals which have occurred during the last half century, the same influences have been at work, to a greater or less degree, that will be manifest in the more extensive movements of the future.
Christ comes, it is true, in Pentecostal revivals and in destructions of Jerusalem, in Reformation movements and in political upheavals.
We may illustrate the philosophy of revivalsby the canal boat which lies before the gate of a lock.
Revivals of religion are valuable in just the proportion in which they produce rational conviction and permanently righteous action.
She also did good work with the Bancrofts in some of their revivals of the Robertson comedies, especially distinguishing herself as Blanche Haye in "Ours," and Bella in "School.
If my accounts of the Lyceum revivals are brief it is not from lack of appreciation of them, and happily the memory of them is green.
It proved one of the trump cards of the Bancrofts at the old Prince of Wales's Theatre, and its subsequentrevivals have always been attended by success.
At the Lyceum, in addition to the repetition of Olivia, she played his Queen Henrietta Maria in the revivals of "Charles I.
When "Becket" had run its course, and pending another great production, somerevivals were given.
Westland Marston, who considered that in some of the spectacular revivals at the Princess's, unnecessary pageantry was not only introduced but absolutely obtruded.
The same applies to all modern theosophical revivalsof Hindoo religion.
Have not all the principal revivals of religion, of morality, of education, been simplifications?
Note, also, the various declensions and revivals of religion which have occurred in every period of the church, and endeavor to learn their causes and consequences.
Instances of surprising answers to prayer, no less striking than these, are continually occurring in the revivals of religion of the present day.
He had also passed through a number ofrevivals of religion.
They are the mainspring of human agency in all revivals of religion.
Revivals of religion immediately spread all over the land of Judea and its vicinity.
So the former revivals spent themselves, but the Great Revival did not spend itself, but grew to be, for the majority of Christendom at least, the permanent expression of the Change.
Invariably these revivals followed periods of sordid and restricted living.
The former revivals were a phase of fever, this was the first movement of health, it was altogether quieter, more intellectual, more private, more religious than any of those others.
Those old-time revivals were, I say, the convulsive movements of a body that suffocates.
His remarks on the American revivals "are, no doubt well intended," but I believe it would be difficult for any one to say what good end they are calculated to answer.
He says, "The unconverted inhabitants of this country are far more likely to raise bitter persecutions where revivals are attempted, than to feel willing to engage in them.
I have been surprised and pained by the appearance of the paper, headed "On Revivals in America," in the number of your Magazine for the present month.
But if the reports of American revivals which have reached this country be in general correct, I think the description of Mr. C.
It is scarcely possible to give a more gloomy, disparaging description of the American revivals than that which he presents.
Though the paper is headed "Revivals in America," Mr. Clarke has not confined his remarks to American revivals; he has animadverted with considerable freedom on revival meetings in England.
Quantity, in English revivals of ancient metre, depends not only on position, but on accent.
Brother Aplin has been a successful man, and has seen, at various times, extensive revivalsunder his labors.
As a result, revivals have been frequent, and the number saved a host.
Other charges than those mentioned also shared in the revivals of the year, giving a net result for the District of nearly one thousand conversions.
Nor, under such leadership, need it be deemed strange that revivals sometimes swept the entire circuit of the year.
Revivals usually attended his labors, and he was always highly esteemed by the people.
During the year he had extensive revivals at both Delavan and North Geneva.
Extensive revivals had occurred, and we were now able to report an increase of eight hundred and seventy-seven members.
The people came in great numbers, and many of them were fresh from their revivals at home.
We must be content to leave the great aggregate unmoved, or we must endure the irregularities that are sometimes seen, not only at Camp-Meetings, but in all revivals of religion.
This has in fact been the history of the revivals since the universal reign of vulgarity in what we call the early Queen Victoria period in England.
Revivals of the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles must not be confined to the learned stage and public of an English or American university, but must come to be heard and appreciated by a far larger public.
They have had by far the most to do with the revivals which from the first they have carried to a wonderful pitch with their protracted meetings, inquiry meetings, camp meetings, etc.
From what we have already learnt in the chapter on "The Senses of Animals," it is clear that the impressions and their revivals in memory have differences in quality.
I hear them say, "Though we have had revivals before, we have never seen a year like this, when the words of God had such deep effect.
The notices of the revivals are mere incidental sketches.
Most of the revivals in Oroomiah commenced on the day of the monthly concert of prayer, and several on or immediately after the first Monday in January--a day specially set apart to prayer for missions.
During one of the revivals in the Female Seminary, the prayers of the pupils were exceedingly earnest.
He was made the means of extensive revivals of religion.
A] [Footnote A: It is very unfair to represent those clergy as opposed to revivals who may not have attended "revival meetings.
We object entirely to revivals because of the great excitement which attends them.
Let nothing be said in favour of wide-spread and sudden revivalsto discourage these hopes!
We have no great faith in sudden conversions," is a form of expression in which we hear revivals objected to, when the subject happens to be the topic of conversation in ordinary society.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revivals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
