The Rev. Moses Hoge described the Cane Ridge camp meeting, in an account that could stand for similar meetings of that period:
The careless fall down, cry out, tremble, and not infrequently are affected with convulsive twitchings.…
Nothing that imagination can paint, can make a stronger impression upon the mind, than one of those scenes. Sinners dropping down on every hand, shrieking, groaning, crying for mercy, convulsed; professors praying, agonizing, fainting, falling down in distress, for sinners or in raptures of joy!.…
As to the work in general there can be no question but it is of God. The sub jects of it, for the most part are deeply wounded for their sins, and can give a clear and rational account of their conversion.…
Excerpt from Christian History Magazine issue 26 1989
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