Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . ps of the wilderness and endure storms andfatigue to accomplish their work. As the next chapter will show, the work of providingand supporting pastors, and the best use of the printingpress in disseminating the Gospel, called for and re-ceived the aid of the most fertile and inventive resourcesof consecrated genius. The immorality, demoralizationand infidelity of the last quarter of the eighteenth cen-tury was the low ebb tide of Christianity, as religionwas driven back by the tempest of war in this co
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . ps of the wilderness and endure storms andfatigue to accomplish their work. As the next chapter will show, the work of providingand supporting pastors, and the best use of the printingpress in disseminating the Gospel, called for and re-ceived the aid of the most fertile and inventive resourcesof consecrated genius. The immorality, demoralizationand infidelity of the last quarter of the eighteenth cen-tury was the low ebb tide of Christianity, as religionwas driven back by the tempest of war in this countryand the atheistic upheaval of the Old World. Withthe new century the tide began rapidly to return again,as the breath of the Lord, in infinite benediction, beganto blow across the sea of His love toward the landof our sin and suffering. Whatever any discouragedsouls may say, as they fondly look through increasingdistance at these waves of blessing, the tide has beensteadily rising from that time to this. It is higher nowthan ever before, and better times still await us in ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, D. D., LL. D. CHAPTER VII. THE GREAT REVIVAL OF I 8oO. THE spiritual deadness which followed the Revolu-tionary war caused widespread dismay. Yearafter year the General Assemblies, in their reports onthe state of religion throughout the Church, expressedto the people the deepest concern as to the state of so-ciety. It looked to good people as if the very foun-dations of morality and social order were going to de-struction. It is possible that this sense of their greatneed led Gods people to renewed and earnest 1797 the symptoms of better times began to ap-pear ; and the closing years of the century were atonce seasons of great religious awakening and greatmoral desolation. Infidelity and atheism were bold,confident and defiant. Christians grew weak in theirown eyes and sought their strength from God. Theearliest symptoms of this great awakening were mani-fest in
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