Essay
The First Age of Reform
“In the history of the world,” Ralph Waldo Emerson declared in 1841, “the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour.”[1] Not much a joiner of causes...
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Charles Grandison Finney’s religious conversion
Charles Grandison Finney, a New York lawyer, underwent a dramatic religious conversion. Afterward, he left his law career to become a preacher. He went on to become a leader of the Second Great Awakening and one of the era's most well known revivalists.
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Religion and Social Reform - Roots of Reform
From 1801 for years a blessed revival of religion spread through almost the entire inhabited parts of the West....The Presbyterians and Methodists in a great measure united in this work, met together, prayed together, and preached together....
They would erect their camps with logs or frame them, and cover them with clapboards or shingles. They would also erect a shed, sufficiently large to protect five thousand people from wind and rain, and cover it with boards or shingles; build a large stand, seat the shed, and here they would...