Cane Ridge Revival Summary

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1. Barton stone is an organizer of the Cane Ridge Revival and he describes the events that happened that he called wonderful. He starts by telling of how two sisters were attended a service and they suddenly fall to the ground screaming. They then laid they’re without any movement. They finally woke up a little and began calling for mercy, after a while they rose up with happiness and were praising god. After a described the girls experience he went on to explain the religious exercises, the jerks, dancing, barking, laughing, and running. the jerking exercise was when peoples body or head would jerk back and forth in a fast paste. The dancing exercise was when people normally from jerking would go into dancing, they would dance until they fell.

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