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The history of the Revival in Hamilton
Unlike other cities in North America, there are densely built up old huge historical church buildings in the downtown Hamilton which were crowded with sincere Christians in the past. November 5, 1857, the New York Christian Advocate and Journal reported about the "Revival Extraordinary” in Hamilton that twenty to forty-five professions were being made daily, and that one hundred were made on the previous Sunday. They wrote: “The work is taking its range… of persons of all classes. Men of low degree and men of high estate for wealth and position; old men and maidens, and even little children, can be seen  humbly kneeling together, pleading for grace. The mayor of the city with other persons of like position, are not ashamed to be seen bowed at the altar of prayer beside the humble servant.” Over 2000 converts were obtained that year in Hamilton and the revival swept away spontaneously over the country. The Great Awakening Movement in North America started from this small city Hamilton and spread to New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa, California, and New England and so on. The awakening of 1857-1858 brought over one million new converts into the American Church, and revived over four million “old” Christians. And also social influences were made on such significant historic event as the number of people indulged in gambling, drinking, and prostitution drastically decreased. And there were growing voluntary works and relief funds for the poor, the oppressed and the outcast, funding of the YMCA, the YWCA and the Salvation Army. Though this historical event is barely known, the historical church buildings in Hamilton, say something about that.

Ducet, D. (2007). The Day When Hamilton Changed the World, Beacon.

"The Religious Revival." The New York Times 20 March 1858. (no author listed)

http://www.smithworks.org/revival/1857.html

http://www.eagleworldwide.com/data/HamiltonRevival.pdf