ABSTRACT
There are several points of interest in the account of revival activity in Northampton, Massachusetts, the town of Jonathan Edwards who had been central to the First Great Awakening in the 1740s. Though published by two British Congregationalists, Reed and Matheson, who visited the United States in the mid-1830s, the account is drawn from participants in the revival of 1834. The narrative is particularly revealing in its attempts to account for the outbreak of the revival, balancing God's influence with the conviction that method and organization, as in the Sunday Schools, had fostered the revival spirit.
