1858 SECOND GREAT AWAKENING. First Hand Letters on Religious Revivals - Haystack Prayer Revival &c.

A very scarce volume by Ebenezer Porter, at the time of publication a professor at Andover, but when the revivals took place, a student and participant in the revivals sweeping across Williams College, Yale, and Andover. 

His first-hand reflections on the revivals, in the former of letters addressed to the "Revival Association in the Theological Seminary, Andover" [1832] were meant to form part of an historical record at Andover on the important period. According the publishers, they were now issued [1858] because of their then-contemporary with "the confident hope of their great usefulness, especially in this time of extensive revivals of religion throughout the country." 

An important document illustrating the use of previous revivals in the pastoral work of the prayer awakening of 1857-1859 involving the Fulton Street Prayer Revival and the various movements it began in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc., 

No copies on the market at the time of cataloguing and we do not recall handling this previously. 

Porter, E[benezer]. Letters on the Religious Revivals which Prevailed about the Beginning of the Present Century. Boston. Congregational Board of Publication. 1858. 174pp.

A fair copy only, but worthy of preservation. Both boards detached, spine cover absent. Ex library stamps and pocket from the Chicago Theological Seminary. Textually clean, crisp, and solid.