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• Moody description in Ordained of the Lord H.A.
  Ironside, pp. 32-35

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Age of Progress II

• The Second Great Awakening Finney, Moody, and
• The Rise of Mormonism

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Early 19th Century Churches

• With the post-revolutionary war economic boom the
  USA spread west
• Along with the frontiersmen went Christians,
  missionaries, and churches.
• People exercised their right to religious freedom
• The lack of a state church continued to increase
  the number of unchurched
• Inter-denominational struggles caused strife
  especially in rural areas

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Early 19th Century Churches

• Along with the economic boom came a massive
  increase in immigration
• Roman Catholic numbers swelled along with the
  immigrants, especially among the German and Irish
• The frontier/rural areas tended towards
  mainstream protestant denominations and the urban
  areas towards Catholicism
• Interdenominational movements like the American
  Bible Society, American Tract Society, and the
  American Sunday School Union rose to meet the
  growing needs

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Early 19th Century Churches

• Christianity gained some state support due to its
  founding of social apparatus like schools,
  universities, orphanages, etc.
• Crazy utopian communities like the Oneida
  community emerged

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Charles Finney

• Born Aug. 29, 1792 in Warren, CT
• At 2 his family moved to NY along with many other
  emigrants, they were poor farmers and lived in
  harsh conditions
• He heard very little preaching growing up and
  what he did was grammatically poor
• Didnt go to college but got a high school
  education and then a Law certification
• Moved to Adams, NY and led the church choir
  though still an outspoken unbeliever

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Charles Finney

• Finney had a vision of Christ in the middle of
  the street and began to convert
• After a day long process Finney knew he was saved
• He realized that he now was to preach
• Began an education that was more argument than
  learning
• Was ordained as a Presbyterian minister, but
  later became Congregationalist

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Charles Finney

• Finney was Semi-Armenian and specifically
  anti-Hypercalvinist due to Unitarianisms origins
  in calvinistic thought
• He led a massive reform in the methodology of
  revival
• Preached extemporaneously, used encouragers,
  prayed for people by name from the pulpit, had
  women praying at the front of the church,
  endorsed mixed gender prayer services, and
  ostensibly created the modern altar call with his
  anxious bench

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Charles Finney

• Preached massive revivals with claims of over
  500,000 getting saved
• Western New York became the Burned-Over
  District because there was no fuel left for
  revival there
• The mass conversions werent all absorbed by
  local churches and some fell by the wayside once
  emotion was gone
• Was a staunch abolitionist
• Was to some degree involved in the perfectionist
  theology of his day

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Charles Finney

• Became professor and eventually president of
  Oberlin college, the first college to allow women
  and black people to study in classes with white
  males
• Finney died in 1875
• His Christianity and the effects of his ministry
  are still to this day hotly debated
• To many Reformed Christians Finney is an
  arch-heretic and the doom of evangelism
• To many modern Evangelicals Finney is a great
  hero and model for revival

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D.L. Moody

• Born Feb. 5 1837 6th of 9 children
• His father died when he was 4 and his mother had
  great difficulty keeping the family together
• A local Unitarian pastor came alongside the
  family and helped care for them both spiritually
  and materially
• The Moody family became Christian
• At 17 he traveled to Boston, and after a period
  of hopeless job hunting got a job as a shoe
  salesman in his uncles store

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D.L. Moody

• He was mostly illiterate, but an excellent shoe
  salesman
• Moody converted after a visit from his Sunday
  school teacher
• After some scufuffle he was given membership in
  the church
• Following his impetuous nature Moody moved to
  Chicago on a whim
• He made a good deal of money as a salesman as
  well as increasing his involvement in various
  works for God

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D.L. Moody

• His love for evangelism manifested itself, he
  rented a pew and filled it weekly with various
  bums and wastrels
• Began a Sunday school ministry among the children
  of the slums earning him the nickname Crazy
  Moody
• At 24 Moody submitted to his call to full time
  ministry having lost all desire to work
• Became very involved in the Y.M.C.A
• During the Civil war Moody initiated tent camp
  evangelism converting many soldiers

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D.L. Moody

• 1867 traveled to England and met his two heroes
  Charles Spurgeon and George Müller
• A massive fire burned down Moodys school and
  YMCA building in Chicago
• He traveled to New York in order to raise funds
  for rebuilding
• While in New York his soul was tormented until he
  had a revelation and anointing
• Traveled to England in order to refresh and
  increase in learning

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D.L. Moody

• In answer to a crippled girls prayers Moody
  preached in a church that saw a massive revival
  of over 400 new members
• Thus began his career of mass evangelism
• Teaming up with Ira Sankey Moody traveled all
  over preaching revival wherever he went
• He founded several schools including the still
  famous Moody Bible Institute
• It is said that in his lifetime he preached to
  over 1,000,000 people.

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D.L. Moody

• He grew old became ill with a heart condition
• Hiding the condition he preached one more series
  of sermons in Kentucky
• He then went home to die
• He died

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2nd Great Awakening

• Massive 19th Century revival that swept across
  America
• It began with the Kentucky Revival in the early
  1800s and continued on in various aspects
  throughout the rest of the century.
• In the frontiers the Baptists and Methodist
  denominations grew quickly as they were the
  primary movers in revival
• More urban revivals such as took place in New
  England under Finney and Chicago under Moody were
  less denominational

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2nd Great Awakening

• The entire awakening was marked by radicalism
• Especially in the frontiers people were excitable
  and prone to hysterics
• Also gave rise to several modern day heretical
  movements like Mormons and Jehovahs Witnesses
• Provided a platform for social change often
  promoting such ideas as race equality and
  prohibition
• Many many many were saved or at least claimed to
  be

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Joseph Smith Jr.

• Born in Virginia to a down on their luck family
  who moved around looking for work
• Moved to New York along with many other families,
  eventually giving up on hard work and seeking
  less difficult means of employment
• Joseph was marked as a clever boy with a knack
  for storytelling, but was never well educated
• Supposedly at 14 he had a theophany of God the
  Father and Jesus

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Joseph Smith Jr.

• He began spreading his tale with some success,
  though when he began telling about it meets with
  mixed reports
• Functioned as an exhorter during the 1824 revival
  that took place in Palmyra
• Was almost baptized in the Baptist church in
  order to marry Emma Hale
• 1827 the location of golden plates containing the
  real testament of Jesus Christ was revealed to
  him by the angel Moroni, along with a
  restorationist command for the church

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Joseph Smith Jr.

• He translated the plates by dictating to a scribe
  as he translated
• Thus was the book of Mormon written
• A good looking a charismatic man he eventually
  gained many followers
• 1831 to avoid conflict in New York the Smiths
  moved to Kirtland Ohio where they built the first
  Mormon temple
• 1838 they fled to Missouri due to local unrest
  and mob violence primarily due to Smiths
  polygamous practices

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Joseph Smith Jr.

• Moved to Independence Missouri and had visions
  that it was to be the center of Zion in Christs
  soon to come millennium
• Political blocs, physical violence, and a take
  over attempt made the Mormons unpopular in
  Missouri
• Smith was imprisoned for several months but
  bribed his way out with liquor and
• 1839 moved to Nauvoo Illinois where the Mormons
  became dominant and Smith became mayor

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Joseph Smith Jr.

• 1842 Smith became a freemason
• 1844 announced his candidacy for president of the
  USA
• The newly made newspaper the Nauvoo Expositor
  complained against Smith and his Polygamy
• Smith ordered the paper destroyed and shut down
  violating freedom of the press
• Popular opinion rose against Smith and he was
  imprisoned in Carthage jail

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Joseph Smith Jr.

• While in jail with his brother and a few
  followers a mob came and attacked them
• Both Joseph and Hyrum Smith were killed, Joseph
  tried to escape by jumping from the window and
  was shot
• His last words were Oh, Lord, my God, the
  beginning of a Masonic cry for help
• Smiths death left a succession crises from which
  the church split, though the mainstream Mormons
  followed Brigham Young to Utah where they remain