1852 PRAYER REVIVAL. Samuel Backus. The Prayer-Meeting Assistant. Hymns the more idiomatic King James

the more idiomatic King James Version

in Seagrove’s Account of an African Negro

formerly the China Inland Mission

devotional author

are very direct sermons on lust and swearing

1852 PRAYER REVIVAL. Samuel Backus. The Prayer-Meeting Assistant. Hymns the more idiomatic King JamesVery scarce work on the history of prayer meetings and their connectivity to revivals of the 19th century. Written when Samuel Backus, grandson of important early Baptist, Isaac Backus, when he was 65 years of age. He draws on his personal experiences during the Second Great Awakening and recalls miraculous answers to prayer, discusses the importance of the prayer meeting as distinct from the prayer closet, etc., Samuel Backus published an account of