Kingsley Press is pleased to announce the publication of a wonderful little booklet containing Jonathan Goforth’s firsthand accounts of the Korean revival of 1907. He shows how it all began with the prayers of God’s people and their desire to see God do greater things than they had already witnessed in previous years.
Jonathan Goforth was a pioneer missionary to China who longed to see God work in revival power. In 1904 and 1905 he was inspired by reports of the Welsh Revival, and then in 1907 he heard about a revival that had broken out in nearby Korea. He decided he must go there and witness the outpouring of God’s Spirit firsthand in the hope that the fires of revival and renewal would follow him back to China on his return. He was not disappointed. After visiting some of the main mission centers in Korea and witnessing what the mighty power of God had done and was still doing, Goforth returned to China and began reporting to the churches there the mighty movings of God’s Spirit he had seen and heard about in Korea. As a result, the churches in Manchuria began to pray for a mighty outpouring of the Spirit of God. In the fall of that same year, 1907, God’s power began to be unleashed in Manchuria, and in 1908 the same revival fire that had swept through Korea also swept through Manchuria, China. As a result of this revival, Goforth’s life and ministry was transformed from that of a career missionary to a traveling evangelist and revivalist. He became one of the best known of all China missionaries, and was known all over China as the “Flaming Preacher.”
In her foreword to this booklet, Goforth’s daughter, Mary Moynan, wrote that her heart had been “searched and scorched” as she read these pages again.
“Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?” (Psalm 85:6).
We hope you’ll get a copy of this excellent booklet and allow it to stir your heart for revival in our own day.
