Letter from George Addison Baxter to Archibald Alexander (April 25, 1833)
“[T]he bodily exercise, and the disorders to which it gave rise were of unspeakable injury to the church in that day….”
“History of the ‘Jirks’” in the New York Telescope (February 18, 1826)
“I have frequently thought that a history of the singular exercises, called the “Jirks,” and other strange operations which affected the subjects of the great Kentucky Revival, would be interesting to my readers….”
Excerpt from Home Mission Monthly (1915)
“I am sure she will never forget the ‘Holy Roller’ meetings she attended while here…. In their meetings they shout, dance, jerk, roll on the floor, jump wildly, or lie in a trance as if dead. These, they claim, are different ways of showing that the ‘power’ is on them….”
Clip from Peter Adair’s Holy Ghost People (1967)
“Man’s got the Lord. You can get him too!”
