Excerpt from Narrative of the Revival of Religion: At Kilsyth, Cambuslang, and Other Places, in 1742 How strange that to many minds this word, so pleasing in every other connection, should not only lose all its charm but become utterly distasteful and offensive when used with reference to religion By every well constituted mind the revival of an immortal soul, under the power of Divine truth, ought surely to be regarded as an event unspeakably more inte resting and delightful than any revival affecting only the temporal estate of man. The body may revive and the gloom of the sick chamber be dispelled, and the saddened countenances of friends be brightened into joy; but a few years have only to run their course in order that the same sick chamber must be anew prepared, and that mourning friends must again be gathered around. The soul, once revived by the Spirit of God, can never die! When Peter presented Dorcas alive, revived by the power of Christ, to the saints and widows who filled the upper chamber at Joppa, weeping over her decease, it is indeed delightful to think of the glad surprise that must suddenly have beamed from every eye and dried up every tear. But that company nevertheless must ere long, in the common course of nature, have reassembled to behold their friend and benefactor, in whose restoration they now rejoiced, finally carried to the cold and silent grave. When, on the other hand, the Lord Jesus standing by the pallet on which lay the man that was brought in before him, sick of the palsy, said unto him, Son, be of good cheer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.