Revival: It Leads to Social Reforms
by Marilynn Chadwick
True revival awakens a heart for the least and the lost. Historically, revivals have occurred during times of cultural darkness.
England, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, had plunged into moral decadence. Drunkenness was rampant and gambling so pervasive that historians described the nation as "one vast casino." Tickets were sold to public executions as entertainment. Many children died in workhouses. Conditions were dismal all around.
Amid this degradation, increasing numbers of British grew rich on the African slave trade, causing one Anglican bishop to…
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