🔥🔥🔥GET READY FOR REVIVAL!!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥 This is neat. The anxious bench. During this time, Finney developed what came to be known as New Measures. He allowed women to pray in mixed public meetings. He adopted the Methodists anxious bench: he put a pew at the front of the church, where those who felt a special urgency about their salvation could sit. He prayed in colloquial, common, and vulgar language. Most of these New Measures were actually many decades old, but Finney popularized them and was attacked for doing so. In July 1827, the New Lebanon Convention was held to examine these practices, as well as some false reports of excesses. Vote after vote ended in stalemate. When a last attempt was made at a resolution condemning questionable revivalistic practices, Finney countered by proposing a condemnation to lukewarmness in religion. Neither proposal passed. The zenith of Finneys evangelistic career was reached at Rochester, New York, where he preached 98 sermons between September 10, 1830, and March 6, 1831. Shopkeepers closed their businesses, posting notices urging people to attend Finneys meetings. Reportedly, the population of the town increased by two-thirds during the revival, but crime dropped by two-thirds over the same period. From Rochester, he began an almost continuous revival in New York City as minister of the Second Free Presbyterian Church. He soon became disenchanted with Presbyterianism, however (due largely to his growing belief that people could, with God, perfect themselves). In 1834, he moved into the huge Broadway Tabernacle his followers had built for him.
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