Cambuslang Work. George Whitefield preaching at Cambuslang 1742 The Cambuslang Work, or ‘Wark’ in the Scots language, (February to November 1742) was a period of extraordinary religious activity, in Cambuslang, Scotland. The event peaked in August 1742 when a crowd of some 30,000 gathered in the ‘preaching braes’ - a natural amphitheatre next to the Kirk at Cambuslang - to hear the great preacher George Whitefield call them to repentance and conversion to Christ. It was intimately connected with the similar remarkable revivalist events taking place throughout Great Britain and its American Colonies in New England, where it is known as The First Great Awakening.
A Holy Fair[edit] The Minister of Cambuslang was an unlikely person to have organised this remarkable event. He was Mr William M’Culloch. Early on in his career as a Minister, he had confessed to a friend that he envied those who had felt called or converted to Christ. New England preachers[edit] Strange behaviour[edit] The two communions[edit] The Famous Cambuslang revival work in 1742.
CAMBUSLANG lies about half a mile to the south of the river Clyde, almost due south from the Glasgow eastern districts of Shettliston amid Tollcross. A little to the east of the church there is a spacious natural amphitheatre, formed on the green side of a ravine which rises from the channel of the burn. This was the scene vf an extraordinary religious excitement in 1742. In the New Statistical Account of Scotland, we find the following description of this curious affair, which is known as the Cambuslang wark.
The first prominent effects of these multiplied services occurred on the 8th of February. Soon after, the Sacrament was given twice in the space of five weeks, on the 11th of July and on the 15th of August. Rev. Mr. Historic Lanarkshire: The Cambuslang Work. ScotSites eBooks - The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) The following is from The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) by J. Pringle Thomson, M.A.: Source--The Statistical Account of Scotland, drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes, vol. v., p. 266, by Sir John Sinclair, Bart.
(Edinburgh: 1793) Statistical Account of Cambuslang In the statistical account of this parish, it will doubtless be expected, that some mention should be made of those remarkable religious phenomena, which took place under Mr. The kirk of Cambuslang being small and in bad repair, the minister, when the weather was favourable, used to preach in a tent, erected close by a rivulet, at the foot of a bank or brae near the kirk; which is still called "the preaching or conversion brae.
"... The way in which the converts were affected, for it seems they were all affected much in the same way, though in very different degrees, is thus described. . [84] George Whitefield, the friend of Wesley. The "Forty-Five" The Cambuslang Revival - Rev Hugh M Ferrier » Reformation Scotland. Rev Hugh M Ferrier I will in this paper endeavour, briefly, to point out some factors that influenced Scottish life and culture at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Then we will go on to consider the phenomenal work of the Holy Spirit of God, which occurred in 1742. And then we will end by saying something about some results that followed the revival. There are certain dates in history that remind us of never to be forgotten events that have faded into the mists of time. The Battle of Hastings 1066 is a classic example.
So too is the Battle of Culloden in 1745: the last battle to be fought on British soil. And then there is 1688, the year of the Glorious Revolution. 1688 is important because it marked the end of the Stuart dynasty, which had lasted from James the 1st in 1603 to James the 2nd in 1688. After the Revolution Settlement in 1688, it was hoped that a new day was about to begin for the Scottish Church. “And”, said Chalmers, “moonlight preaching ripens no harvest.” James Renwick’s Field Preaching at Dechmont Hill near Cambuslang | Jardine's Book of Martyrs. In the late summer of 1686 James Renwick preached at Dechmont Hill in Cambuslang parish, Lanarkshire.
Today, the site of the conventicle lies between the towns of East Kilbride, Cambuslang and Blantyre. Map of Dechmont Hill Street View of Dechmont Hill Aerial View of Dechmont Hill View from Dechmont Hill toward Gilbertfield Castle © Stephen Sweeney and licensed for reuse. Four Lanarkshire men were captured after the field preaching. On 6 December, 1686, Robert Wark and James Ker were brought before Arthur Rose, the Archbishop of St Andrews, John Paterson, the bishop of Edinburgh, Lt-Gen William Drummond aka. Wark was probably either ‘Robert Wark or Warnock in Thornton’ in Kilbride parish, Lanarkshire, or ‘Robert Wark, son to John Wark of Rinnis’ in Old Monklands parish, Lanarkshire. Map of Thornton Street View of Thornton The farm at Rhinns has vanished. Map of former location of Rhinns Street View of former location of Rhinns Aerial View of Rhinns Bishop Paterson Viscount Tarbet Lord Abbotshall.
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