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

Dissenting ministers opened their correspondence with salutations “from your Brother In Travil and Companion In Tribulation.” The etymological slippage between the travels of riding ministers, the travail of the new birth, and the trials of the Separate movement was not incidental.