THE FULTON STREET PRAYER REVIVAL OF 1857

The Fulton Street Prayer revival of 1857 also known as Laymen’s Prayer Revival or The Third Great Awakening was pioneered by Jeremiah Lanphier who was born to a farmer father and a stable woman for a mother. During the 1850s, Lanphier joined a church pastored by theologian and advocate of religious revival James Waddel Alexander. […]