The year was 1858. Many had forsaken God to seek gold in California. New York City was going through economic hard times; 30,000 men were unemployed and idle. Churches were leaving Manhattan for the more affluent suburbs. It was in this desert that Jerimiah Lanphier began to seek for people to come to pray. Listen to this week's podcast, which explores the story of one of the great revivals in American history, now known as the Fulton Street revival, which brought tens of thousands of people to a time of prayer and repentance.