Revival quotes
Please find some quotes about revivals in Scotland below:
The 1859 Revival in Scotland
'The Scottish Revival of 1859 and the sixties was no different from previous Revivals, except that it was much more transformational. It was the most revolutionary movement that the country had seen since the days of the Covenanters. It was more than a mere outward reform of conduct and manners. It was a marvellous visitation of the Spirit of God, to impress again on the Church and the minds of men the absolute truth of the Saviour's words: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God ," which had been almost forgotten...'
The Revivals in the Hebrides in 1940s
'Following the trauma of World War II, spiritual life was at a low ebb in the Scottish Hebrides. By 1949 Peggy and Christine Smith (84 and 82) had prayed constantly for revival in their cottage near Barvas village on the Isle of Lewis... God showed Peggy in a dream that revival was coming. Peggy asked her minister James Murray Mackay to call the church leaders to prayer. Three nights a week the leaders prayed together for months. One night, having begun to pray at 10 p.m., a young deacon from the Free Church read Psalm 24 and challenged everyone to be clean before God. As they waited on God his awesome presence swept over them in the barn at 4 a.m...
“God was beginning to move, the heavens were opening, we were there on our faces before God. Three o’clock in the morning came, and GOD SWEPT IN. About a dozen men and women lay prostrate on the floor, speechless. Something had happened; we knew that the forces of darkness were going to be driven back, and men were going to be delivered. We left the cottage at 3 am to discover men and women seeking God. I walked along a country road, and found three men on their faces, crying to God for mercy. There was a light in every home, no one seemed to think of sleep.” (Whittaker 1984:159).
When Duncan and his friends arrived at the church that morning it was already crowded. People had gathered from all over the island, some coming in buses and vans. No one discovered who told them to come. God led them. Large numbers were converted as God’s Spirit convicted multitudes of sin, many lying prostrate, many weeping. “Campbell went and what a sight met him. Under the still starlit sky he found men and women on the road, others by the side of a cottage, and some behind a peat stack — all crying to God for mercy.'
