You shall hold your next meeting in my parlour August 26, 2010

“At Hampden-Sydney College there was also revival….Three students exercising their faith int he privacy of their dorm room were surrounding by agnostic peers who demanded they cease their personal acts of devotion. The disturbance grew so severe that the president, Dr. John Blair Smith, was called to investigate. When he realized that the charges against the young men were the “sins” of private worship and prayer, he replied with tears: “Oh. is there such a state of things in this college? Ten God has come near to us. My dear young friends, you shall be protected. You shall hold your next meeting in my parlour, and I will be one of your number.” Amazingly, half the college was at that meeting and what one nineteenth century writer terms as glorious revival sept not only the college, but the surrounding countryside as well.” Excerpt from “When God walked on campus: A brief history of evangelical awakening at American colleges and universities”