Jonathan Bagster selected a Scripture text that the family joined together in prayer were asked to illustrate by further applicable Scripture texts
The Desireableness of God's House by Peter Chalmers
*On the Sale of Walnut Street Prison
and turning my eyes to the city & its hundred steeples glittering in the sun
at least he stepped out of the boat
1739 PRAYER REVIVAL. One of the Earliest Inter-Racial Prayer Meetings in America! Jonathan Edwards, &c. Missionary Jonathan Bagster selected a ScriptureA wonderful Great Awakening irreplaceable 43pp unpublished primary resource from the genetic moments of the American Great Awakening with connections to Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Joseph Sewall, the Diptheria Outbreak of 1736 1739, etc., Perhaps most importantly, it contains what is one of the very earliest manuscript records of an inter racial prayer meeting in America with black Americans, noting they go to pray for revival with "some