“In this pamphlet I have endeavoured to put some of the most salient points into the shortest possible form for readers unacquainted with the subject, but further study will show that the prophetic system here briefly sketched is of much greater extent and permeates the whole Bible. To any who wish for a more detailed knowledge of the subject I would recommend the book to which I am mainly indebted for the substance of these pages, “The Approaching End of the Age,'' by Grattan Gruinness, but as it was written some thirty-five years ago, I cannot say whether it is now obtainable.”
The
Approaching End of the Age: Viewed in the Light of History, Prophecy, and Science
(1879) by Henry
Grattan Guinness
Henry
Grattan Guinness D. D. ( 1835 – 1910) was an Irish Protestant Christian
preacher, evangelist and author. He was the great evangelist of the Evangelical awakening [1]and
preached during the Ulster Revival of 1859 which drew thousands to hear him. He was responsible for
training and sending hundreds of "faith
missionaries" all over the world.
I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.
Mr. Guinness preached yesterday in York Street Chapel. The attendance was greater than on any former occasion. In the evening it amounted to 1600, and if there were a place large enough, five times the number would have been present, to hear this highly gifted preacher. The interest which he has excited has daily increased and probably will continue to do so, during his labours in Dublin. An enormous crowd pressed for admittance. Judges, members of Parliament, orators, Fellows of College, lights of the various professions, the rank and fashion of the metropolis have been drawn out. Among them the Lord Lieutenant, the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Justice of Appeal, etc. Dublin Daily Express 1858
Key
to the Apocalypse or the Seven Interpretations of Symbolic Prophecy
Professor
GaussenPtolemyLas
Casas
The First
Awakening (or The Great Awakening)
was a Christian revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and
British
America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and
1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American religion. It resulted from
powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of deep personal revelation of
their need of salvation by Jesus Christ. Pulling away from ritual and ceremony,
the Great Awakening made Christianity intensely personal to the average person
by fostering a deep sense of spiritual conviction and redemption, and by
encouraging introspection and a commitment to a new standard of personal morality.It brought Christianity to African slaves and was a monumental event in New England that challenged established authority. It incited rancor and division between old traditionalists who insisted on the continuing importance of ritual and doctrine, and the new revivalists, who encouraged emotional involvement and personal commitment. It had a major impact in reshaping the Congregational church, the Presbyterian church, the Dutch Reformed Church, and the German Reformed denomination, and strengthened the small Baptist and Methodist denominations. It had little impact on Anglicans and Quakers.
Unlike the Second Great Awakening [The Second Great Awakening of 1844. The Great Disappointment: A lesson for 2012.], that began about 1800 and which reached out to the unchurched, the First Great Awakening focused on people who were already church members. It changed their rituals, their piety and their self-awareness. To the evangelical imperatives of Reformation Protestantism, 18th century American Christians added emphases on divine outpourings of the Holy Spirit and conversions that implanted within new believers an intense love for God. Revivals encapsulated those hallmarks and forwarded the newly created evangelicalism into the early republic. In essence New Thought was a return to the Love and Divinity of God.
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