The Great Awakening (SOR) Conference Only

‘I can recommend without hesitation the reading of The Great Awakening. It is really one of those marvellous heart-warming books and I cannot imagine a better way of spending a summer holiday. What Tracy gives us is an account of true revival.’ — D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

‘The history of genuine revival stirs us. Through it we see the realities of Christ and the Christian life illustrated in the lives of people like us. What a help it is to have an account of God’s dealings with His people recorded for us by a careful historian! In compiling this history, Tracy has become a companion to us, both to awaken us with the thoughts of what the Almighty can do, as well as to warn us against a zeal without knowledge. Nothing outside of Scripture moves me as much as reading about the days when our Captain took the field and the gospel-godliness spread like fire.’ — JOHN D. SNYDER (Author, the Behold Your God series.)

‘This book will drive many Christians to their knees in prayer for revival and will encourage them with a greater hope that God will do something wonderful in the present dark age.’ — ARTHUR BENNETT

‘Surely all who are concerned for the welfare of their local church and for the outpouring of God’s blessing should read this book. And all who share that concern will be helped and instructed as they do so.’ — EVANGELICAL TIMES

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Although a considerable number of scattered records accompanied what Jonathan Edwards called the ‘Revival of Religion in New England in 1740’ it was not until 1841 that Joseph Tracy thoroughly sifted these original sources and became its first historian. He aimed to provide ‘a work which should furnish the means of suitably ap