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September 23, 1857 Beginning of Layman's Prayer Revival on Fulton Street, Wall Street area.

By hymn writer Phoebe Brown. How do you deal with paralyzing fears? This question was pondered frequently in the late 1850s in New York City. News of disasters, yellow fever quarantines in Staten Island, personal calamities, and rumors of economic collapse and of upcoming civil war were dusting the streets of Wall Street during noontime breaks. A prayer gathering’s popularity unexpectantly…

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September 23, 1857 Beginning of Layman's Prayer Revival on Fulton Street, Wall Street area.

By hymn writer Phoebe Brown. How do you deal with paralyzing fears? This question was pondered frequently in the late 1850s in New York City. News of disasters, yellow fever quarantines in Staten Island, personal calamities, and rumors of economic collapse and of upcoming civil war were dusting the streets of Wall Street during noontime breaks. A prayer gathering’s popularity unexpectantly…

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September 23, 1857 Beginning of Layman's Prayer Revival on Fulton Street, Wall Street area.

By hymn writer Phoebe Brown. How do you deal with paralyzing fears? This question was pondered frequently in the late 1850s in New York City. News of disasters, yellow fever quarantines in Staten Island, personal calamities, and rumors of economic collapse and of upcoming civil war were dusting the streets of Wall Street during noontime breaks. A prayer gathering’s popularity unexpectantly…

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September 23, 1857 Beginning of Layman's Prayer Revival on Fulton Street, Wall Street area.

By hymn writer Phoebe Brown. How do you deal with paralyzing fears? This question was pondered frequently in the late 1850s in New York City. News of disasters, yellow fever quarantines in Staten Island, personal calamities, and rumors of economic collapse and of upcoming civil war were dusting the streets of Wall Street during noontime breaks. A prayer gathering’s popularity unexpectantly…

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September 23, 1857 Beginning of Layman's Prayer Revival on Fulton Street, Wall Street area.

September 23, 1857 Beginning of Layman’s Prayer Revival on Fulton Street, Wall Street area.

By hymnwriter Phoebe Brown. After the speaker read “you shall not be afraid for the terror at night” from Psalm 91 at the Fulton Street lunchtime prayer meeting, a man shared how deeply he was moved by the peaceful and confident woman, and her son, who led a prayer meeting on the burning ship “Austria” before it sank on September 13, 1858. The man had learned of the story from an acquaintance…

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September 23, 1857 Beginning of Layman's Prayer Revival on Fulton Street, Wall Street area.

September 23, 1857 Beginning of Layman’s Prayer Revival on Fulton Street, Wall Street area.

By hymnwriter Phoebe Brown. After the speaker read “you shall not be afraid for the terror at night” from Psalm 91 at the Fulton Street lunchtime prayer meeting, a man shared how deeply he was moved by the peaceful and confident woman, and her son, who led a prayer meeting on the burning ship “Austria” before it sank on September 13, 1858. The man had learned of the story from an acquaintance…