HELPS

TO THE

PROMOTION OF REVIVALS.

BY REV. J. V. WATSON, D. D.,

EDITOR OF THE NORTHWESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.

£V3790 W3

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856,

BY CARLTON & PORTER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.

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PREFACE.

As our title implies, the subject-matter of this volume is treated rather suggestively than exhaustively. We have aimed to set forth principles, and left their details and applications to the reader. Indeed, it is too late to teach Methodist preachers how to conduct revivals, but not too late to help one another by our suggestions to bring about this most blessed condition of the Church in which it can exist out of heaven.

Much of the matter of this volume has already appeared in the columns of the paper under the author's control. But for the flattering attention which it has there excited, we might never have thought of giving it its present form. Numerous letters from highly respectable sources have reached us at different times, soliciting its publication in a less ephemeral form than that of a newspaper. Yielding to the judgment of our friends, we hope the volume