PRAYER MEETING: ITS ORIGIN AND HISTORY; WITH INTERESTING NARRATIVES, AND INSTANCES OF REMARKABLE And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY J. E. TILTON & CO. 161 WASHINGTON STREET. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by J. E. TILTON & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. 27,660 PRINTED BY CEORGE C. RAND & AVERY. Stereotyped by HOBART & ROBBINS, New Engiand Type and Stereotype Foundery, BOSTON. INTRODUCTION. THE history of the Old South Chapel PrayerMeeting is published at the request of numerous individuals, who are desirous of preserving some record of a meeting which has, with the blessing of God, been instrumental of accomplishing more for the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ than any other similar meeting which has ever been held. Its influence has extended, to a greater or less extent, over the whole country; and there are persons residing in almost every State in the Union who have been occasionally present at the meeting, and who would, it is believed, be glad to possess a history of it from its very commencement. In addition to an account of the rise and progress of the meeting, the reader will find a pho |