The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . ed state of society thanfor a new country; so as-suredly some of their ownnumber have thought, and tosuch a view of the mattermay be ascribed the originof the section of the bodyof which we have now towrite. About the year 1797, theStates of Kentucky and Ten-nessee presented to the trueChristian a painful moral as-pect. Thirty years beforethat period, Daniel Boone,Daniel Boone. ^he extraordinary pioneer of the West, led a band of
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . ed state of society thanfor a new country; so as-suredly some of their ownnumber have thought, and tosuch a view of the mattermay be ascribed the originof the section of the bodyof which we have now towrite. About the year 1797, theStates of Kentucky and Ten-nessee presented to the trueChristian a painful moral as-pect. Thirty years beforethat period, Daniel Boone,Daniel Boone. ^he extraordinary pioneer of the West, led a band of daring adventurers into that portion of theUnited States, then an immense forest peopled only with frightful sava-ges. Not long after, multitudes of emigrants directed their steps fromVirginia and the Carolinas, and so increased its population that in 1792Kentucky was admitted as one of the United States, and was followedby Tennessee four years later. A new country, having hitherto had small opportunities for buildingchurches and school-houses, and having a still less number of Christianministers., it can excite no surprise that little religion and much igno-. 696 Presbyterians. ranee and vice were to be found there. And that those who knewthe people best, felt it important to make more than ordinary effortsfor their reformation. A number of Presbyterian ministers, deeply im-pressed with a sense of their responsibility, began to preach with morethan their usual zeal, and so great was the excitement created amongthe people, that many of them travelled twenty, thirty, and even ahundred miles to hear the gospel and to converse with its ministers onthe things of God and eternity. No churches were large enough tocontain the audiences which collected, and resort was necessarily hadto the woods, where the people encamped with their wagons and pro-visions, and spent their days and nights in the worship of God. Thiswas the origin of camp-meetings, as we have shown elsewhere. Not a few
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