This book records a little known portion of South African history in the period 1737 to 1840. It tells the story of a revival in the Moravian Church at Genadendal in the Cape province in South Africa. At the time of the publication of the first printed edition of this book in 2007 the late Dr Martin Holdt's appeal relating to this book was: "Val Nowlan has given us a piece of South African history no one can afford to miss! We need again what happened at Genadendal long ago, and we need it urgently."