of the General Synod, of the District Synods, the _Lutheran Observer_, etc., soon began to teem with reports on revivals, visitations, outpourings, refreshing showers, etc. (_L. u. W._ 1857, 27.) At the convention of the Maryland Synod in Frederick, 1842, Harkey proposed the publication of the _Revivalist_, a monthly to be devoted to the history and defense of revivals, revival intelligence, the best measures and means of promoting and managing revivals--a plan which Synod declined as "inexpedient." At the same convention B. Kurtz, the advocate of the wildest revivalism, succeeded in having a committee appointed to draft a minute expressive of the views of Synod in regard to "new measures." The report was discussed for two days, when it was referred back to the committee, and at the next meeting of Synod the committee was excused from further consideration of the subject. (Spaeth 1, 111.) As late as 1876 the _American Lutheran_ declared that the great majority of the pastors and congregations of the General Synod favored revivals; that they managed them on the lines of those conducted by Moody and Sankey; that some of the congregations employed sectarian preachers for protracted meetings. (_L. u. W._ 1876, 182.) When, in 1877, the _American Lutheran_ merged into the _Observer_, Dr. Conrad solemnly promised to continue defending revivalism. (_L. u. W._ 1877, 60.) In 1908, referring to revivals still occasionally reported in the _Observer_, the _Lutherische Herold_ remarked that this sort of enthusiasm, formerly the rule in the Eastern and Central States, had as yet not nearly died out, _e. g._, in the General Synod congregations of Eastern and Central Pennsylvania. (_L. u. W._ 1908, 322.) Down to 1918 occasional revivals were held or participated in by congregations and ministers of the General Synod. Several years ago Rev. Bell cooperated in a revival conducted by Billy Sunday in Toledo, etc. According to _Church Work and Observer_, November 9, 1916, the General Synod church at Gettysburg, Pa., conducted a joint revival with Presbyterians, Methodists, and United Brethren.