Excerpt from The Great Revival in the West, 1797-1805 The revival was characterized by marked emo tional features which resulted in extraordinary bodily exercises. These exercises, as the treatise endeavors to show, can be accounted for on physio logical and psychological grounds. Since it was in this revival that camp-meetings originated, the character of the early meetings merits attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.