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

accused Parsons of barring qualified communicants from the Lord’s Supper, promoting grossly ignorant candidates to full church membership, and opening his pulpit to a motley assortment of disorderly and schismatical itinerants, including John Curtis, leader of the Shepherd’s Tent seminary in New London.