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Days of Revival

(History of Methodism in Ireland 1747–1859)

By C.H.Crookshank, 3 Volumes, 1300pp, hardback

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Over 100 years ago a Methodist minister by the name of C. H. Crookshank wrote an account of the history of Methodism in Ireland from its beginnings in 1747 when John Wesley visited for the first time, until 1859, the year of the great revival. It has never been reprinted this century until now, despite its being viewed as a classic by those who had the privilege to own a copy. The original three volume hardback work has been completely re-typeset. It has also been given a new title, "Days of Revival", and is complete with a new index. We originally produced it as a six-volume, stitch-bound, paperback set (1350 pages in all) but have now re-issued it in as three hardbacks in cloth binding.

What does "Days of Revival" have in store for today’s reader? The first thing is that if you want history to thrill your heart and challenge your faith, then "Days of Revival" is a good place to discover it. The second thing it gives is an unprecedented insight into evangelicalism in Ireland over the one hundred and sixty year period leading up to 1859. These were far from being days of barrenness and many exciting events took place. This helps us to see our day in a wider context of history. Finally, you will be introduced to some amazing preachers who once travelled throughout the length and breadth of this land. Men such as Thomas Walsh of Limerick, Gideon Ouseley from Galway and Charles Graham. Accounts of their open-air preaching as well as stories of the remarkable conversions seen under their ministries are all drawn together in this easy to read set.

These volumes are the affectionate story of the spread of the gospel by Wesley and his men, written in a Methodist manse in Antrim over a hundred years ago by a preacher who ransacked all the original materials and lets the story of the mighty works of God live. What extraordinary times they were. These men were early Wesleyan Methodists and so opposed the divine decrees of God’s sovereignty in predestination. But they had no thought of giving a person assurance of salvation by two or three easy steps and repeating ‘the salvation prayer’. They no more believed that they could make people Christians than raise the dead. So one frequently comes across Wesley writing such comments as this in his diary, that in Aughrim he found a few and left more striving to enter in at the strait gate (Volume 1, p. 124).

One other feature of this scan of 100 years of Irish Methodism is the way it charts the rise of revivalism, that is, in the growing willingness to accept physical phenomena as of the Holy Spirit, altar calls or penitents being asked to kneel publicly, protracted meetings etc, all considered to be the marks of a work of God.

— Geoff Thomas in Evangelical Times

Whenever I am feeling discouraged I take Crookshank down from my shelves and read a few pages. This restores my vision and passion for souls.

— A church-planting missionary in Dublin.
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History of the Presbyterian Church in America

The Two Thousand Confessors of Sixteen Sixty-Two

The Progress of the Reformation in Ireland

The Church of Scotland South Arabia Mission 1885-1978
A History and Critical Evaluation of the Mission founded by Hon. Ion Keith Falconer

by James McLaren Ritchie

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The Mission operated from its main base at Sheikh Othman at the base of the Aden Peninsula, about 10 miles north of Aden Harbour, continuously from 1885 until 1967, the year when South Arabia gained its independence as the South Arabian Federation. It started again and operated with increasing difficulty until the year 1972, when its work there ended. From 1972 till 1978 its missionaries went as a team into the Yemen Arab Republic, where they co-operated with the Government in running a hospital in the town of Rada‘, and finally withdrew in 1978 when they felt that they had fulfilled their commission.

This concise and well-researched account, so far from being purely academic, is of practical value for the Church’s mission, for it will indicate clearly what is positive, effective and worth following in other situations, and what is negative, or adverse to the effectiveness of the great Commission of Christ and therefore to be avoided.

The conclusion attempts to assess the value of the Mission’s work, and reflect upon the success or failure of the project as a whole in achieving its original stated aim of evangelising the Muslims of Arabia, the heartland of Islam.

Review by John Shipman

The Church of Scotland Mission to South Arabia was founded by a young orientalist and missionary of ancient Scottish lineage, Ion Keith Falconer, who died of malarial fever in 1887 within a few months of establishing a base for himself and a medical colleague in Sheikh Othman. During the next 80 years the work of the Mission, centred mainly on the Keith Falconer Hospital in Sheikh Othman, was carried forward by a small and fluctuating number of medical and evangelical staff. Temporarily closed on the eve of independence in 1967, the Mission reopened the following year in what had now become the People’s Republic of South Yemen. But it came under growing official pressure to withdraw, and finally did so in 1972. Meanwhile, a link was established with the government of North Yemen, which paved the way for the secondment of missionary staff to serve in the hospital at Rada’a from 1972 to 1978.

The first seven chapters of this book chart the history of the Mission and of the changing ecclesiastical and political context in which it operated. The last three chapters offer a critical evaluation of the work of the Mission. The Appendices, which run to over 150 pages, include, amongst other papers, a brief overview of the history of the region; a most interesting and wide-ranging report made by a visiting Danish cleric, Erik Nielsen, in 1958 (which led to the effective merger of the Church of Scotland and Danish Missions in Aden after many years of close cooperation); and two valuable eye-witness accounts by Miss Helen Thom of the situation in the country during the four years preceding independence in 1967, and the four years which followed it, ending in the Mission’s withdrawal in 1972.

A recurring issue in the book is the strategic dilemma which the Mission faced in allocating resources between medical and evangelical work. This was to cause intermittent tensions within the Mission, and between it and the Church of Scotland’s Foreign Mission Council (FMC) in Edinburgh. The author, the Reverend James Ritchie, who served with the Mission in Sheikh Othman as administrator and treasurer 1950–1963 (and later with the Mission to North Yemen in the 1970s), inclines to the view that more emphasis should have been placed on the evangelical and educational side of the Mission’s work (as originally envisaged by Ion Keith Falconer) than on the medical; but whether the very small number of conversions which occurred during the Mission’s tenure can be attributed to this perceived imbalance remains open to question. Chapter 9 of the book gives details of the few Muslims who did convert, including one or two (e.g. Muhammad Ali Murshid) who did so of their own accord and not in response to proselytisation. The Mission’s best known convert was Dr Ahmad Sa’id Affara, a graduate of Edinburgh, who was a lynchpin of the Keith Falconer Hospital from 1939 until his retirement in 1961, and became a popular and much respected figure in Sheikh Othman.

One of the little known facts which this book brings to light is the important medical work which the Mission began in the remote statelet of Beihan in 1952 (where with the enthusiastic support of the Sharif and his family a clinic was started by the indomitable Miss Cowie) and which was continued through the 1960s until the Mission finally withdrew from South Yemen in 1972.

Thanks to the diligence of the author, a gap in the annals of Britain’s non-governmental relations with South Arabia has now been filled, and we have a published record of the Mission’s activities and of the men and women who devotedly served its cause, sometimes in circumstances of extreme difficulty and hardship.

In his researches the author has drawn mainly on the minutes and other correspondence relating to the work of the Church of Scotland’s FMC. He appears not to have consulted British Colonial records of the period. This is, perhaps, regrettable since the Aden government leaned heavily on the assistance of the Mission during the 1930s and 1940s in cultivating relations with the Imam of Yemen, and in establishing the rudiments of a health service in the Protectorate. Its files contain correspondence with and about Mission personnel which throws useful light on their unsung contribution to British and local interests. Reproduced in Appendix 6 is the vivid account by Dr Patrick Petrie (seconded to Sana’a from the Keith Falconer Mission) of his overland journey from Sana’a to Aden in 1942. This was published in the Scottish Geographical Magazine (under the pseudonym ‘William Robertson’) in 1943/44, and Petrie sent an abridged version to the then Governor of Aden, Sir John Hathorn Hall.

There are one or two surprising omissions from the bibliography: for example Whilst I Remember by Sidney Elisabeth Croskery (Blackstaff Press, Dundonald, 1983). Dr Croskery, a Quaker, served with the Medical Mission in Sana’a (1939–42), and later (in the 1950s) with Miss Cowie in Beihan. Her book includes a lively account of the challenges of life in both places. The inclusion of A Medical Survey of the Western Aden Protectorate, 1939–40 by P. W. R. Petrie and K. S. Seal (Colonial Office, 1943) and A History of Modern Yemen by Paul Dresch (CUP, 2000) would also have been fitting.
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A History of the 1859 Ulster Revival

7 volumes, pp xviii+489, 495, 505, 468, 383, 348, 349, with d/w

Compiled from source documents by Rev. Stanley Barnes for the Whitefield College of the Bible, N.Ireland

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Revival has always been the lifeline of the church. In english the idea in the word is the resurgence of life. When we look for indications of its etymological history in the Bible, the Old Testament use of the word signifies the giving of life which brings benefit to the work of the Lord among men. Revival is God breathing a new life, as it were, into the Church. This impartation of life is in itself the preservation of the Church's ministry, as well as its impetus in the field of missionary and evangelisitic endeavour.
The Whitefield College, as part of the Free Presbyterian Church, is interested in revival. Many have prayed for revival, some have talked about it, but there are few who look for it. The prophets certainly prayed for revival. Burdened saints have often meditated upon the words,"0 Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: 0 Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy." Hab 3:2.
Different parts of the world have had the privilege of experiencing revival in the past, and whether one thinks of the great Reformation or the inspiring preaching of a Jonathan Edwards or a George Whitefield, revival has been God's work. Revival has been like the river, "the streams whereof have made glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High." Revival has put the Church on its feet.
These papers focus attention mainly on the Ulster Revival of 1859. It is the express wish of the writer that the study of these seven volumes may inspire like-minded brethren everywhere to pray for the restoration of the candlestick to its place. For the candlestick to leave Ephesus meant the extinction of the church. For its burning flame to be there meant the extension of the church.
As will no doubt be clear, the College stands indebted to the Rev. Stanley Barnes whose consuming interest in revival moved him to collect these papers from a variety of sources and over a considerable period of time. We assume this collection to be unique. We are delighted to be able to offer this depository of stimulating reading to all our students and our friends.

Dr John Douglas, Principal, Whitefield College of the Bible

VOLUME 1

Accounts of the Revival across Ulster

Rev. D. Adams, Ahoghill — The Revival at Ahoghill: Its
Narrative and Nature, with suitable reflections

William Arthur, A.M. — The Revival in Ulster: Ahoghill
and Ballymena & The Revival in Ballymena and Coleraine

Rev. S.M. Dill — The Revival at Ballymena in 1859

Rev. Samuel J. Moore, Ballymena — The History and
Prominent Characteristics of the present Revival in
Ballymena and its Neighbourhood

Rev. William Richey (formerly of Coleraine) — Connor
and Coleraine; or, Scenes and Sketches of the Last
Ulster Awakening

Rev. William J. Patton, Minister of Second Presbyterian
Church, Dromara — The Revival at Dromara in 1859

Rev. Andrew Wilson, Dungannon — The Revival at
Dungannon in 1859

Rev. Thomas B. Bell, Leswalt — Notes on the Revival at
Newton-ards

Presbytery of Limavady — The 1859 Revival

VOLUME 2

Personal Assessments of the Revival

James William Massie, D.D., LL.D.
— Revivals in Ireland. Facts, Documents, and Correspondence

— A Visit to the Scenes of Revival in Ireland. The
Origin, Progress, and Characteristics of the Work of
1859. Parts II and III of Revivals in Ireland

— The Revivals Reviewed; Their Progress and
Results. Original correspondence from Ministers
and other Friends in Ireland. Part IV of Revivals in
Ireland

Rev. R. T. Simpson, M.A., Q.U.I.
— Recollections of and Reflections on the Revival
of 1859

Rev. John Baillie
— The Revival: or What I saw in Ireland; with
thoughts suggested by the same. The Result of
Two Personal Visits

VOLUME 3

The Legacy of the Revival

Benjamin Scott — The Revival in Ulster: Its Moral and
Social Results

Ministers and Medical Men in Ulster — The Revival in
Ireland. Letters on the Revival of Religion in the
North of Ireland, addressed to the Rev. H. Grattan
Guinness

Rev. W. M. Craig, B.A., B.D. — Significance of the 1859
Revival – A Movement that swept Ulster, written for
the “Portadown News”

Rev. Matthew Kerr — The Ulster Revival of the
Seventeenth Century: An Instructive Chapter in the
Early History of Presbyterianism in Ireland

Rev. Professor Gibson, Belfast — Present Aspects of The
Irish Revival

Arthur W. Edwards, A.M. — A Letter on the Religious
Revival

Rev. E. J. Poole-Connor — Visitations of Grace

VOLUME 4

The Controversies and Debates of the Revival

Isaac Nelson — An Answer to the Rev. Professor Killen’s
Defence of Revivalism, Assurance, and the Witness
of the Spirit

— An Answer to the Rev. John
Macnaughtan’s Defence of Revivalism, Assurance,
and the Witness of the Spirit

Rev. T. S. Woods — The Delusion of the Rev. I. Nelson:
A Lecture

Edward A. Stopford — The Work and the Counterwork;
or, The Religious Revival in Belfast. With an
explanation of the physical phenomena

Rev. Edward Hincks, D.D. — God’s Work and Satan’s
Counter-Works, as now carried on in the North of
Ireland

Rev. Alexander McCreery — Satan’s Devices and Dr.
Hincks’s Fancies

Rev. F. J. Porter, A.M. — The Spirit Resisted: A Revival
Address, with a Letter on Helps to the Ministry

— The Prophet Deceived: Lay
Teaching not Lay Preaching

Rev. J. A. Chancellor — The Prophet Un-deceived

VOLUME 5

The Theology of Revivals

Rev. Hugh Hanna — Revivals Vindicated against the
False Philosophy of the World

Rev. John Montgomery — The Holy Spirit: Its Nature and
Work

Rev. Charles Seaver, Rev. J.A. Canning, and the Rev.
James M’Cosh, LL.D. — The Ulster Revival, in its
Religious Features and Physiological Accidents

W. M. Wilkinson — The Revival in its Physical, Psychical,
and Religious Aspects

Rev. James Morgan, D.D. — Thoughts on The Revival of
1859

Rev. J. Oswald Dykes, A.M. — Apostolic Times Revived

Rev. W. Mc’Ilwaine, A.M. — Ulster Revivalism
Revivalism: Is it of God, or of the Devil? Considered with
reference to the “Awakenings” in America, at
Belfast and Ballymena

Thomas Macneece, D.D. — Words of Caution and Counsel
on the present Religious Revival, addressed to his
Parishioners

VOLUME 6

Tracts and Pamphlets of the Revival

Rev. Samuel Prenter, M.A. — The Late Rev. Thomas Toye
– a Lecture on his Life and Times

Rev. Principal J.M. Barkley, M.A., B.D., Ph.D., D.D. —
Tommy Toye: Revivalist Preacher

Of Irish Worthies – The Rev. Thomas Toye of Belfast

Reminiscences of the Rev. Isaac Nelson, Minister of
Donegall Street Presbyterian Church, Belfast

George Salmon, D.D. — The Evidences of the Work of the
Holy Spirit

Rev. S.J. Moore — The Ministerial Office Magnified:
Why? and How?

Rev. James Denham — Revivals of Religion and Means of
Obtaining Them

Rev. C. Seaver — Religious Revivals

John Brown, D.D. — Address on the Revival of Religion

Rev. J. M. Killen, M.A. — Religion in Everything

Rev. Robert Knox, A.M. — The Ulster Revival

VOLUME 7

The Effect of the Revival Outside Ulster

Revival in the Old and New Worlds

Religious Movement in the United States

Rev. John Venn, M.A. — The Revival in Wales

Rev. Hamilton M. Macgill — On the Present Revival of
Religion in Scotland

J. Edwin Orr, Ed.D., Th.D., D.Phil. (Oxford) — The Re-
Study of Revival and Revivalism

N.D. Emerson, LL.B., Ph.D. — The Church of Ireland and
The 1859 Revival

Robert Haire — The Story of The ’59 Revival with some
Methodist Sidelights

The English Press on the Irish Revivals

Rev. David Hunter — Plymouthists and Their Principles

Rev. John Smyth, M.A. — Plymouth Brethrenism: Its
Creed and Character. A Dialogue

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History of the Rise of the Huguenots (2 vols)

2 volumes, xxviii + 577pp & xvi + 681pp, £44.95, green cloth with d/w

This two volume hardback set forms the first part of Baird's history of the Huguentos. His work, which appeared in three parts, entitled respectively History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France (2 vols, 1879), The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre (2 vols, 1886), and The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (2 vols, 1895), is described by the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica as being "characterized by painstaking thoroughness, by a judicial temper, and by scholarship of a high order".

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Henry Martyn Baird (1832-1906), American historian and educationalist, was a son of Robert Baird (1798-1863), a Presbyterian preacher and author who worked both in the United States and in Europe for the cause of temperance, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 17 1832.

He spent eight years of his early youth with his father in Paris and Geneva, and in 1850 graduated at New York University. He then lived for two years in Italy and Greece, was a student in the Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 1853 to 1855, and in 1856 graduated at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a tutor for four years in the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and from 1859 until his death was professor of Greek language and literature in New York University.

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Origin and History of the Primitive Methodist Church (2 vols.)
by the Rev. H. B. Kendall.
(560pp + 552pp, large format with d/w)
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These volumes were prepared initially in the early years of the twentieth century to mark the centenary of the Primitive Methodist movement in 1907. Produced initially in fourteen separate parts in paper wrappers, they were later sold as two bound volumes, and ready in very good time for centenary celebrations extended from 1907 to 1910.

The volumes by H.B. Kendall are still the definitive work on Primitive Methodist origins and early expansion. Profusely illustrated these volumes have for many years been collectors' items. Other shorter later histories of the movement including those by Geoffrey Milburn and Kenneth Lysons, although adding valuable new insights, have not supplanted Kendall's monumental work.

Although inevitably some small mistakes have occurred, partly when Kendall was relying on local sources supplied by others, his overall grasp is nonetheless magnificent. The volumes proceed from astute examination of the character of Bourne and Clowes to the vast chapel building programme planned to mark the centenary. Kendall is only too aware that this movement to which he is so intimately committed may forget its humble origins. He also sees the danger of buildings now elegant and ahead of the fashion, but lacking congregations of spiritual depth.

The reprint is offered for the bi-centenary (1807 - 2007). The institutional church has undergone equally vast changes during the last hundred years. The story of the rise of Primitive Methodism serves as an inspiration, challenge and warning!
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The Mow Cop Revival 1807
by David Allen. Booklet, 118pp
Dr. Allen is a Deputation Speaker for the Trinitarian Bible Society. He left the teaching profession in response to the call of God to this work.
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This book traces the origin of a movement, which some historians have declared to be the most remarkable revival in British Methodism since the days of John Wesley. It began on a Staffordshire mount, but spread with astonishing rapidity and phenomenal success at a rate said to surpass even that of Wesley’s day. It was John Wesley who said of prayer meetings, “In many places they have been of more use than even the preaching. And in them the flame first broke out which afterwards spread through the whole people,” and that certainly is the case with regard to the events on Mow Cop in May 1807. The centenary celebration took place on Monday 27th May 1907. On Monday morning, 27th May 1907, one London daily had a headline: “Sixty thousand Methodists on a Mountain.” Another national daily estimated that anything from 50,000 to 100,000 people had been on Mow Cop over the weekend. It is right therefore, as we approach the bi-centenary, that we consider afresh that mighty movement of the Spirit of God.
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Echoes from Scotland's Heritage of Grace

by Hugh Ferrier, 265pp, dark green cloth with d/w. Published by the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)

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"Scotland is a small country with a population of about five million. It is a land of impressive beauty, but of few natural resources to make it wealthy. Yet, as a nation with a thirst for education, it has produced a disproportionately large number of people whose excellence in various fields of knowledge has brought great benefit to the world. However, what is particularly outstanding about Scotland, is her religious heritage, though, sadly, few Scots think so today. We owe an incalculable debt to those who hazarded their lives to bring the gospel to our shores, and to those who continued to proclaim and defend it down through the centuries, sometimes at the cost of life or livelihood.

"I have written these pages to try to express some of the glories of God's grace experienced by Scottish people in the past. I have also particularized with regard to the Free Church of Scotland, to note how easily and quickly a church can be diverted from her high and holy calling as happened in the 19th century. The Free Church was born in revival, yet within a generation or so, the seeds of doubt and unbelief were sown in that Church which had been evangelical to the core, and those seeds have produced a bitter harvest from which the Church in Scotland has never recovered." - from the Preface.

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History of the Geneva Bible (25 vols.) [Price is per vol.]

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