The Prayer Meeting Revivals

I.    The Prayer Meeting Revivals

A.    Needham soon came under Charles H. Spurgeon’s influence and attended his college in London.

B.    In 1868, Needham came to America with a letter of introduction from Spurgeon.

1.    Landing in Boston, he preached the following noon at the YMCA, whose doors D. L. Moody, the national vice-president, had opened for the noonday businessmen’s meetings that arose in the Prayer Meeting Revivals of 1857.

2.    Later Needham sat under Moody’s special training in Chicago and filled the Moody Church pulpit from 1879 to 1881.

3.    When he arrived in America in 1868, George Need-ham’s joined with James Inglis (1813-1872) to establish Bible meetings in America, and these two men became "the real co-founders of the Niagara Bible Conference."

4.James Inglis (1813-1872), a Baptist, edited Waymarks in the Wilderness. In his New York City office in 1868, brethren of various denominational affiliations met for the first of a series of private Believers Meetings for Bible Study. Which included such Christians as: a.James H. Brookes (1830-1897), who was just launching his magazine, The Truth b.William J. Erdman (1834-1923) c.Fleming H. Revell (1849-1931) d.P. P Bliss (1838-1951) e.Major Daniel W. Whittle (1840-1901)

5.    Successive Believers’ Meetings that would eventually become the Niagara Bible Conference