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"In 1837 the slumbering fires broke out. Nearly the whole population became
an audience. He was ministering to 15,000 people. Unable to reach them, they
came to him, and settled down to a two years' camp meeting. There was not an
hour day or night when an audience of from 2,000 to 6,000 would not rally to
the signal of the bell."
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Titus Coan:
Missionary to Hawaii. 1835 - 1881 |
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"There was
trembling, weeping, sobbing, and loud crying for mercy, sometimes too
loud for the preacher to be heard; and in hundreds of cases his
hearers fell in a swoon. Some would cry out, "The two edged sword is
cutting me to pieces." The wicked scoffer who came to make sport
dropped like a dog, and cried, "God has struck me!" Once while
preaching in the open field to 2,000 people, a man cried out, "What
must I do to be saved?" - Titus Coan |
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Quotes
From
Hawaii's Great Awakening |
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" On the 7th of
November, 1837, at the hour of evening prayer, we were startled by a
heavy thud, and a sudden jar of the earth! The sound was like the fall
of some vast body upon the beach, and in a few seconds a noise of
mingled voices rising for a mile along the shore thrilled us like the
wail of doom...."
When he could not
go to them they came to him. From all parts of the island they flocked
to Hilo. "Whole villages gathered from many miles away, and made their
homes near the mission house. Within the radius of a mile the little
cabins clustered thick as they could stand."
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