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This image depicts the first revival that took place August 8, 1801 in Cane Ridge Kentucky organized by a frontier evangelist named Barton Stone. There were preachers who were preaching of a perfect Christian society and Utopias. The significance of the image is to show the amount of people that attended these meetings. There were tents for the people to sleep and a place where the preachers would stand to give their message to the people such as the wooden structure seen in the left of the painting. The meetings would normally be a week long and would be very intense. There were also revivals that lasted as long as 6 months and one of these was led by Charles Grandison Finney. In addition to men there were women and children that attended them. They contributed and listened to all that took place. Cane Ridge Revival. N.d. Library of Congress. ABC-CLIO: American History. Web. 30 Oct. 2009. .
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This image shows some of the events that took place at the revival meetings. People would dance, fall to the ground, foam at the mouth, and speak in tongues. It was considered a display of their piety towards Christianity. This depicts the dancing and also depicts the fact that mostly women fueled the revival movements. There is a preacher who is speaking his sermon, which shows the power he has over the people. The subjects that he is speaking about drives the people to dance, foam at the mouth, writhe on the ground, and speak in tongues. Camp Revival Meeting. 19th century. Library of Congress. ABC-CLIO: American History. Web. 30 Oct. 2009. .
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This text source was written by Charles Grandison Finney. He led a religious movement called Finney’s Congregationalism and was the leading Protestant evangelist of the revival. The below is an excerpt from his book on religions revival called What a Revival of a Religion Is. His preaching reached listeners in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania and many of these people claimed that they were reborn and converted to his movement. The book was written due to his success in his religious movement. His method of reform was through individual acts that would redeem the soul. Many preachers would write books and sermons to reform the religious community and they all helped fuel the Second Great Awakening that swept in the 19th century.
 * “It is altogether improbable that religion will ever make progress among heathen nations except through the influence of revivals. The attempt is now making to do it by education, and other cautious and gradual improvements. But so long as the laws of mind remain what they are, it cannot be done in this way. There must be excitement sufficient to wake up the dormant moral powers, and roll back the tide of degradation and sin. And precisely so far as our own land approximately to heathenism, it is impossible for God or man to promote religion is such a state of things but by powerful excitements. This is evident from the fact that this has always been the way in which God has done it. God does not create these excitements, and choose this method to promote religion for nothing, or without reason. Where mankind are so reluctant to obey God, they will not obey until they are excited. For instance, how many there are who know that they ought to be religious, but they are afraid if they become pious they will be laughed at by their companions. Many are wedded to idols, others are procrastinating repentance, until they are settled in life, or until they have secured some favorite worldly interest. Such persons never will give up their false shame, or relinquish their ambitious schemes, till they are so excited that they cannot contain themselves any longer. . ..

It is presupposed that the church is sunk down in a backslidden state, and a revival consists in the return of the church from her backsliding, and in the conversion of sinners.”**

Finney, Charles Grandison. "What a Revival of a Religion Is." ABC-CLIO: American History. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Nov. 2009. .
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