Revival Incidents

Young Carradine, full of the blessing of sanctification, sets out southward from St. Louis on his first ministry journey at a time before entire sanctification was being preached in the south.  He encountered both great openness and great opposition to the righteous message:

"I never knew until that morning how enraged, fiendish, and even satanic a face can look in spite of snow-white cravat and the black coat of a clergyman. Some perfectly crimson with an unexplainable fury, cried out for retraction and apology, waving their hands and shaking their heads in the most violent fashion.

One white-haired minister, Dr. Abby, now in Heaven, stood in the altar in the midst of the cries, prayers, wails on one side, and the angry vociferations and clamor on the other, and lifting up his trembling, withered hand for attention, cried out to the amazed audience, sitting as if stricken under the tabernacle, "He is right;" then turning to me, said, "Go on, God is with you!" and then sank to his knees at the altar.

The Holiness movement, as I have said, had not yet reached us, and yet here was a great Methodist camp meeting suddenly divided as by an earthquake.

Who does not see that here was not simply a division arising from a call to a perfect walk with God; but mainly there had taken place under the Word of God a revelation of spiritual condition, and people by the score saw the side of the chasm they were living on."  (the Methodists had mostly lost their early blessing by 1850. The older man apparently knew something from their earlier days. -Edit.)  Page 37

As for the good stories, I hate to share Hi-Lites since they are all too good to spoil for you.  Let us just say that the blessed Presence that came south with him made quite a splash....

I wish these publications were better dated.  Perhaps this will help: Carradine preached in the south while Finney did the same in the northeast.  "Charles Finney, the great evangelist, was born in America in 1792, and died at the age of eighty-two in 1875. Without Christian parentage or training, he was convicted of sin through reading the Bible while practicing law in Adams, New York, at the age of twenty-nine."

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