Self-examination is a Duty incumbent upon Mankind at all times
Toned at prelims
Contents include: The Pilgrim's Progress in the Nineteenth Century [continued from the previous year]
198pp complete and separately published
the puritan historian and friend of James
1859 LORENZO DOW. Beautiful Biography of Revivalist, Camp-Meeting Preacher. Cane Ridge, Visions, Dreams, &c. Puritan Self-examination is a Duty incumbentA superbly preserved copy of a revivalist classic. Lorenzo Dow [1777 1834] was the most popular preacher of his era, preaching to more people than any other in the world. His autobiography was, for years, only outsold by the Bible. He typified the Second Great Awakening period; he was a loud, searching, physical preacher and almost single handedly invented what we today think of as the "camp meeting," revivalist, or Pentecostal style of preaching. He