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

Far from an ingathering of the unchurched or the notoriously sinful, revival meetings were dominated by long-standing church members—“ould Christions” like Cole who discovered that they had been building their hopes for salvation on a foundation of sand.