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

One in three Haverhill church membership candidates quoted or cited 1 Corinthians 11:29 as a source of “discouragement,” “exceeding dread,” or a “matter of Terror” that clouded their decision to join the church, while scores of others deployed a less specific language of “unworthyness” to vent their fears of joining the church and attending the Lord’s Supper.