You’re kidding, right?
I ask for even anecdotal support, and you want me to buy a book?
Thanks, but i think it’s safe to conclude you just can’t provide the requested example.
So, you want me to do your work for you? Okay, here’s one example below. And if you are really serious about finding out about societal repentence, you will go buy a book about Finney as I suggested.
Charles P. Bush, a native of Rochester converted during the revival, later remarked:”The whole community was stirred. Religion was the topic of conversation in the house, in the shop, in the office and on the street…Grog shops were closed, the Sabbath was honored, the sanctuaries were thronged with happy worshippers…There was a wonderful falling off of crime. The courts had little to do, and the jail was nearly empty for years afterward.”
Historians say of the Rochester revival that “the place was shaken to its foundations.” More than 40 of the new converts entered the ministry and at least 1,500 revivals broke out in other towns as a result of Rochester. To his credit, Charles Finney gave God all the glory: