1820 HAYSTACK PRAYER REVIVAL. Rare Biography of Samuel J. Mills, Founder of Haystack Prayer Revival, Signed by Fellow Attendee!

An absolutely superb biography of one of the founders of the Haystack Prayer Revival, and signed inscribed by another founder, Ezra Fiske [1785-1833], who would die later that year. Fisk had been converted during a prayer revival in the Second Great Awakening, and was one of the five young men, along with the book's subject, Samuel J. Mills, who started the prayer meetings that led to the Haystack Prayer Revival! See here: Haystack: Samuel J. Mills - Global Ministries A nicely preserved example of a now rather scarce biography of Samuel John Mills [1783-1818]. Even as a College student at Williams, Mills is remembered today as being the organizer of the prayer movement that led to the  Haystack Prayer Revival. After graduation, he was initially a minister in Connecticut, but his true passion was missions. He helped form the ABCFM and, importantly, the American Colonization Society, which was intended to form a new colony in African where freed slaves could be returned to. His first pos