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In 1857, the California gold rush was in decline. The railroad bubble peaked in July. Business failures began in August. The fashionable churches were moving north, but Jeremiah Lanphier lived in the nonreligious lower part of the city. Lanphier never married, and had no formal schooling to prepare him for ministry, but he was commissioned as a lay missionary of Read more...
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The story of Jeremiah Lanphier and the North Dutch Church in New York City is closely tied to one of the most remarkable religious awakenings in American history, the 1857–1858 Prayer Revival. At a time of economic uncertainty and social anxiety, a quiet layman’s simple initiative helped spark a movement that spread across the United States and beyond. Lanphier’s life Read more...