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The Forgotten Awakening, How the Second Great Awakening Spread West of the Rockies
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by Douglas McMurry
Douglas McMurry
The Forgotten Awakening, How the Second Great Awakening Spread West of the Rockies
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by Douglas McMurry
Douglas McMurry
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Overview
During the Second Great Awakening (1799-1830, the years of James McGready and Charles Finney), God was drawing our nation powerfully to Jesus Christ. What few people realize is that He was working to draw certain Western tribes to Jesus also, through tribal prophecies given to their most respected leaders. The Forgotten Awakening tells of the historical events that resulted from these early prophecies, and the Christian spiritual awakening that resulted among those tribes in 1828-30.
Unfortunately, in 1830 came Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, followed by the Trail of Tears, the Manifest Destiny ideas in the 1840’s, and the false belief that Christianity is “the white man’s religion.” These developments eclipsed the more hopeful memory of what God did in the earlier years.
Based on years of original research of trappers’ and missionaries’ journals and oral traditions of the Plateau tribes, Doug McMurry has pieced together the gentle story of the earlier years, in which both whites and Natives were earnestly seeking God and finding Jesus. Clearly from the evidence, God intended both groups to come together on an equal footing in mutual respect, exploring each other’s strengths.
The Forgotten Awakening is not a novel, but a historical narrative designed to convey real people and events. By restoring a forgotten piece of spiritual history, perhaps we can appreciate more accurately God’s vision and purpose for America. To this end, Doug McMurry has studied published and unpublished journals, letters and oral histories, and has attempted to tell the story that emerges from them without adding fictitious characters or undocumented events. He traveled to the locales of these events to imagine them as accurately as possible—and the result is a story that will challenge our stereotypes of trappers, Natives, and missionaries—even of God.
The story follows two men, the trapper-mapper Jedediah Smith; and the son of the chief of the Middle Spokanes, Slough-keetcha, who was renamed Spokan Garry by the English governor, George Simpson. Having received word of Jesus from Jedediah Smith, and guided by tribal prophecy about “leaves bound together that white men would bring,” the great chief Illim-Spokanee surrendered his son to be educated about Jesus, the one whom the tribes called “The Master of Life.” After three years under the tutelage of missionaries David Jones and William Cochran, he returned to find tribal leaders from hundreds of miles around gathered to meet him, all eager to hear what he had learned of Jesus, the Master of Life. Spokan Garry thus became the first Christian evangelist west of the Rockies, on a preaching tour in 1828-29. And the result was: a great spiritual awakening that has been entirely forgotten.
Douglas McMurry believes that if we could do a better job of listening to the heart of God, we could yet achieve the vision of Jesus the Master of Life, who stands above all cultures and plays no favorites.
Unfortunately, in 1830 came Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, followed by the Trail of Tears, the Manifest Destiny ideas in the 1840’s, and the false belief that Christianity is “the white man’s religion.” These developments eclipsed the more hopeful memory of what God did in the earlier years.
Based on years of original research of trappers’ and missionaries’ journals and oral traditions of the Plateau tribes, Doug McMurry has pieced together the gentle story of the earlier years, in which both whites and Natives were earnestly seeking God and finding Jesus. Clearly from the evidence, God intended both groups to come together on an equal footing in mutual respect, exploring each other’s strengths.
The Forgotten Awakening is not a novel, but a historical narrative designed to convey real people and events. By restoring a forgotten piece of spiritual history, perhaps we can appreciate more accurately God’s vision and purpose for America. To this end, Doug McMurry has studied published and unpublished journals, letters and oral histories, and has attempted to tell the story that emerges from them without adding fictitious characters or undocumented events. He traveled to the locales of these events to imagine them as accurately as possible—and the result is a story that will challenge our stereotypes of trappers, Natives, and missionaries—even of God.
The story follows two men, the trapper-mapper Jedediah Smith; and the son of the chief of the Middle Spokanes, Slough-keetcha, who was renamed Spokan Garry by the English governor, George Simpson. Having received word of Jesus from Jedediah Smith, and guided by tribal prophecy about “leaves bound together that white men would bring,” the great chief Illim-Spokanee surrendered his son to be educated about Jesus, the one whom the tribes called “The Master of Life.” After three years under the tutelage of missionaries David Jones and William Cochran, he returned to find tribal leaders from hundreds of miles around gathered to meet him, all eager to hear what he had learned of Jesus, the Master of Life. Spokan Garry thus became the first Christian evangelist west of the Rockies, on a preaching tour in 1828-29. And the result was: a great spiritual awakening that has been entirely forgotten.
Douglas McMurry believes that if we could do a better job of listening to the heart of God, we could yet achieve the vision of Jesus the Master of Life, who stands above all cultures and plays no favorites.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940013110557 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Deep River Books |
| Publication date: | 05/01/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 362 |
| File size: | 772 KB |
About the Author
Douglas McMurry holds a B.S. in Art Education, from the University of Wisconsin, a Th.M. from San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, CA, both with honors; and a year of postgraduate study at Edinburgh University.
Doug was a Presbyterian Pastor for 35 years before God moved him to Virginia. There he and his wife Carla live and pray among the Virginia tribes, (the first people to be confronted by English colonists at Jamestown). Involved over the past 25 years in interracial reconciliation and prayer on both the east and west coast, he and his wife are the founders of a prayer center in Virginia called “The Clearing Where Eagles Fly,” (TheClearing.us).
The house of prayer is located near the place of the first treaty between whites and Natives on the continent, and is a place where Doug and Carla have a particular calling to pray for First Americans.
Over the past few years, Doug has studied published and unpublished journals, letters and oral histories. In The Forgotten Awakening he has attempted to tell the story that emerges from them without adding fictitious characters or undocumented events. He traveled to the locales of these events to imagine them as accurately as possible—and the result is a story that will challenge our stereotypes of trappers, Natives, and missionaries—even of God!
Other Books Published:
Value Your Mate (with Dr. Everett Worthington) –Baker, 1993
The Collapse of the Brass Heaven (with Dr. Zeb Bradford Long) –Chosen, 1994
Receiving the Power (with Zeb Bradford Long) --Chosen, 1996
Prayer That Shapes the Future (with Zeb Bradford Long) --Zondervan, 1999
The Forgotten Awakening has been featured in Homeschool Companions, and on WATC-TV in Atlanta.
Doug was a Presbyterian Pastor for 35 years before God moved him to Virginia. There he and his wife Carla live and pray among the Virginia tribes, (the first people to be confronted by English colonists at Jamestown). Involved over the past 25 years in interracial reconciliation and prayer on both the east and west coast, he and his wife are the founders of a prayer center in Virginia called “The Clearing Where Eagles Fly,” (TheClearing.us).
The house of prayer is located near the place of the first treaty between whites and Natives on the continent, and is a place where Doug and Carla have a particular calling to pray for First Americans.
Over the past few years, Doug has studied published and unpublished journals, letters and oral histories. In The Forgotten Awakening he has attempted to tell the story that emerges from them without adding fictitious characters or undocumented events. He traveled to the locales of these events to imagine them as accurately as possible—and the result is a story that will challenge our stereotypes of trappers, Natives, and missionaries—even of God!
Other Books Published:
Value Your Mate (with Dr. Everett Worthington) –Baker, 1993
The Collapse of the Brass Heaven (with Dr. Zeb Bradford Long) –Chosen, 1994
Receiving the Power (with Zeb Bradford Long) --Chosen, 1996
Prayer That Shapes the Future (with Zeb Bradford Long) --Zondervan, 1999
The Forgotten Awakening has been featured in Homeschool Companions, and on WATC-TV in Atlanta.
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