Opinions vary considerably among professing Christians as to the nature and effects of the 1859 revival. Some view it without any criticism, whilst others regard it as an amazing outbreak of fanaticism and wild emotionalism, explicable only by psychology and the activity of Satan. The view taken here falls between the two, allowing for a true measure of the work of the Spirit whilst highlighting some of the counterfeit elements and weaknesses of its management and progression, whereby the church was essentially weakened - the effects of which are endemic in Ulster evangelicalism to this day.
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