Farr, Jonathan. "These Four Days Meetings" What are they for? and what will be the cost and fruit of them? NP: NP, ca 1830. Second Edition. [11117]
Removed, no wrapper, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches, 16 pp., foxing. Good. Pamphlet.
No. 2010 in Roberts, Revival Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. "An attempt to discredit revival movements."
A tract warning against the dangers of revival meetings.
"Many will be tempted to go to these meetings, because their Orthodox neighbors will carry them for nothing. Many wives and daughters will be drawn away thus; and many will be urged and enticed, though they know it will displease their connexions. Many poor females, who as soon as their health fails, are objects of charity, will make a merit in going to these meetings, to join in a shameful struggle, which let it end as it may, will bring but little comfort, honor, or advantage to them. These meetings will occasion a great deal of gossip, talebearing, backbiting, scoffing, railing, ridiculing, mocking, cursing and swearing. No doubt, many will treat these meetings with ridicule, mocking, cursing and swearing...These meetings, there can be no doubt, will be fruitful in evils."
Rev. Jonathan Farr (ca. 1802-1845) was the minister of the Unitarian Church in Gardner, Massachusetts, from 1829 to 1833, and the tract must date from those years.
