{"product_id":"the-forgotten-awakening-how-the-second-great-awakening-spread-west-of-the-rockies","title":"The Forgotten Awakening: How The Second Great Awakening Spread West of the Rockies","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the Second Great Awakening (1799-1830  the years of James McGready and Charles Finney)  God was drawing our nation powerfully to Jesus Christ. What few people realize is that He was working to draw certain Western tribes to Jesus also  through tribal prophecies given to their most respected leaders. The Forgotten Awakening tells of the historical events that resulted from these early prophecies  and the Christian spiritual awakening that resulted among those tribes in 1828-30. Unfortunately  in 1830 came Andrew Jacksons Indian Removal Act  followed by the Trail of Tears  the Manifest Destiny ideas in the 1840s  and the false belief that Christianity is \"the white mans religion.\" These developments eclipsed the more hopeful memory of what God did in the earlier years. Based on years of original research of trappers and missionaries journals and oral traditions of the Plateau tribes  Doug McMurry has pieced together the gentle story of the earlier years  in which both whites and Natives were earnestly seeking God and finding Jesus. Clearly from the evidence  God intended both groups to come together on an equal footing in mutual respect  exploring each others strengths. The Forgotten Awakening is not a novel  but a historical narrative designed to convey real people and events. By restoring a forgotten piece of spiritual history  perhaps we can appreciate more accurately Gods vision and purpose for America. To this end  Doug McMurry has studied published and unpublished journals  letters and oral histories  and has attempted to tell the story that emerges from them without adding fictitious characters or undocumented events. He traveled to the locales of these events to imagine them as accurately as possible-and the result is a story that will challenge our stereotypes of trappers  Natives  and missionaries-even of God. The story follows two men  the trapper-mapper Jedediah Smith; and the son of the chief of the Middle Spokanes  Slough-keetcha  who was renamed Spokan Garry by the English governor  George Simpson. Having received word of Jesus from Jedediah Smith  and guided by tribal prophecy about \"leaves bound together that white men would bring \" the great chief Illim-Spokanee surrendered his son to be educated about Jesus  the one whom the tribes called \"The Master of Life.\" After three years under the tutelage of missionaries David Jones and William Cochran  he returned to find tribal leaders from hundreds of miles around gathered to meet him  all eager to hear what he had learned of Jesus  the Master of Life. Spokan Garry thus became the first Christian evangelist west of the Rockies  on a preaching tour in 1828-29. And the result was: a great spiritual awakening that has been entirely forgotten. Douglas McMurry believes that if we could do a better job of listening to the heart of God  we could yet achieve the vision of Jesus the Master of Life  who stands above all cultures and plays no favorites.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984070078517,"sku":"ByrdShop_1935265636","price":226.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781935265634.jpg?v=1770821466","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-forgotten-awakening-how-the-second-great-awakening-spread-west-of-the-rockies","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}