Remarkable Effect of United Prayer
Hervey's "Manual of Revivals." Luke 1:8-10 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,… Well-known are the immediate and lasting effects of the sermon, entitled "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," which President Edwards preached at the time of "The Great Awakening." It was believed that the sermon owed much of its success to the earnest petitions of a few believing persons, who spent the whole of the previous night in a prayer-meeting in the vicinity (Enfield). These prayers were made the more earnest by the fear that God, who was blessing other places, would in just indignation pass them by. (Hervey's "Manual of Revivals.") Parallel Verses KJV: And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course, WEB: Now it happened, while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his division,