Is this story relevant? Can we justify the time and expense of printing and reading books about the past when the present overwhelms the church of God? Truth, sin, grace, the ways of God with man\u2014these are items of enduring significance. And they are what these biographical sketches are all about.\u2019 \u2014 Christianity Today<\/p>\n
Of the many volumes written on the Great \u200cAwakening which changed the course of American history in the 1740s, none is more interesting than Archibald Alexander\u2019s classic account recorded in this volume. Taking as his starting point William Tennent\u2019s unpretentious theological school (contemptuously called the \u2018Log College\u2019), Alexander proceeds through a series of rich biographical chapters to trace the ministerial work of the students who entered pastorates at a time when deadness and formality reigned. \u2018Never, perhaps, had the expectation of reaching heaven at last been more general or more confident.\u2019<\/p>\n
With Alexander we relive the story of their subsequent toil and success \u2013 their preaching and spiritual passion, their experiences of the divine energy of the Holy Spirit, their flesh and blood failings are all graphically portrayed.<\/p>\n
Whether we read of Gilbert Tennent of whom Whitefield said, \u2018hypocrites must either soon be converted or enraged at his preachings\u2019, or of Samuel Blair, \u2018a great textuary who studied the sacred oracles above all other things\u2019, or of Samuel Finley who believed that \u2018nothing more helped digestion than a hearty laugh\u2019 and whose glorious death makes unforgettable reading, Alexander holds and moves us throughout. And such was his intention. Commenting on the fact that \u2018none of the distinguished ministers of that period, except William Tennent, senior reached the age of seventy; and some of the most able and successful among them did not even arrive at the age of forty\u2019, he writes: \u2018These men may be said to have lived fast. They did much for their Lord in a short time. Being burning as well as shining lights, they were themselves consumed while they gave light to others. Oh that a race of ministers, like-minded, burning with a consuming zeal, might be raised up among us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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