Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

Participants abstained from food and dressed in plain clothes. Rising early for private meditation or family prayer, they spent the remainder of the day in the meetinghouse listening to sermons on the necessity of moral reformation.