1858 TROY PRAYING BAND. The Revivalist Prayer Movement that Led to 80,000 Conversions! Civil War “Do They Think of Me

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1858 TROY PRAYING BAND. The Revivalist Prayer Movement that Led to 80,000 Conversions! Civil War “Do They Think of MeWhat a wonderful revival item; a Cabinet Card photograph of the Troy Praying Band. I don't recall ever seeing one of these before! The "Band was founded in 1858 by Joseph Hillman and Samuel Halstead, and was composed of Hillman, Halstead, and a few other wealthy, godly men, were inspired by the Prayer Revivals at Fulton Street, etc., but took their movement on the road, leading prayer meetings at Camp Meetings, Methodist Revivals, etc., It is