1825 SECOND GREAT AWAKENING. Shoreham, Vermont Congregation Covenant to Pray for Revival.

A fascinating artifact of the Second Great Awakening. The idea of covenanting together for prayer and the role of the intensified prayer in eliciting a season of awakening foundational to their understanding of God's economy. We see it among the students gather for the haystack prayer revival, in accounts of local churches, and in its most intensive iteration, at the Fulton Street Prayer Meetings, where the prayer meeting quite literally becomes the revival.

The revival covenant is from Shoreham Congregational Church of Shoreham Vermont. And the church did in face experience several significant seasons of revival. The revival that followed this season of prayer saw over 170 added to the church, in a town of right around 1800 persons. 

The document, in full:

Shoreham, March 23, 1825

Being sensible that the cause of religion in this place is in a low, and we fear in a declining state, and believing that the Lord our Saviour heareth prayer, we feel it our duty and would esteem it a privilege to meet together for prayer more frequently than we have heretofore. Especially we agree with Divine permission and assistance to meet together for prayer one evening in a week, in hope that the Lord will think upon [us] for good in our low condition; especially we agree and covenant to meet on Wednesday evening at such place as we shall appoint, and will punctually attend such meetings so far as health and other circumstances will permit for the space of six months.

Daniel O. Morton [Pastor]
Hiram Everest
Samuel Northtrup
Stephen King
Udney H. Everest

On a single folio sheet, torn at folds, chipped at extremities.