What We Can Learn From History
England sank to deep moral and spiritual levels during the 18th century. Low morality, brutality, sports, and gambling obsession preoccupied a lost and hopeless people until John Wesley and the Moravian Christian movement began to powerfully affect England for the Kingdom of God.
When England was at her lowest moral and spiritual ebb and darkness and death covered the land, John Wesley arrived like an atomic bomb and struck at the very heart of the spiritual wickedness and evil that prevailed over the nation. The ministry of John Wesley to England did what the Bible book of Acts records what happened in the Roman Empire through the church. I believe there is one verse in the book of Acts (4:33) that describes what brought about this dramatic change: And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.
We can learn so many important lessons from history. The one lesson we have a hard time learning is from the mistakes of past generations. I want to let you know about a past generation in a far away country that was changed for the good when everything seemed hopeless. The country was England and the time was the 18th century. I have studied about England during this time and have learned it was a very dark time morally, politically and socially. It was a nation rife with crime, addictions, corruption in politics with corrupted elections. But everything changed for the better over a period of a few decades and this improvement lasted for over 100 years. I will try to share what happened that brought about better days for England. It is what we need in our generation. We desperately need to see some better days ahead for Canada and the United States. Our nations of freedom and democracy are rapidly sliding into the abyss of moral and spiritual darkness and if something does not happen soon, we are going to be in big trouble. Well, actually, I think we are in big trouble already but most people do not realize it and when they do it will be too late. I want to share a very encouraging intervention by God and a few godly people that God used to bring the needed change to England.
In January of 1958 a little book by Doctor Mary Alice Tenney, appeared on the scene. At the time, she was head of the English Department of Greenville College (now University). The book was called Living in Two Worlds: How a Christian Does It.
I am sure the people in Ukraine suffering under horrific conditions, who know anything about the Bible, will think they must be in the Tribulation described in the Bible. I am sure to them it seems like Armageddon is close; I believe it is too.