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

On August 24, 1741, as he was mowing in the field, God “Shined into my heart,” and Backus was “Swallowed up” in the admiration of “Divine glories.”