Christian Focus

What I love about Tom’s writing is the scholarly research that he puts into them, and yet he has an ability to relay that material so that it becomes a story that you want to read … and keep reading. … My prayer is that through reading this book, many will say ‘I am waiting and longing for Scotland to be Ablaze again with revival fires’!

Gordon Pettie, CEO Revelation TV & Author of ‘Do It Again, Lord’, ‘Hey Howie’ and ‘Not If, But When’

Scotland was deeply affected by revival during the two decades following 1858. Many people turned from nominal Christianity or even outright scoffing to deep personal faith. In this carefully documented book, Tom Lennie shows that the revival movement of 1859–61 broke out in every Scottish county and that the Americans Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey roused Edinburgh and Glasgow to a high pitch of spiritual enthusiasm.  Scotland was far more ablaze than we have previously known.

David Bebbington, Professor of History, University of Stirling, Stirling