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Excerpt from David Rice’s Epistle to the Citizen’s of Kentucky (1805)

1805-1809, Books, Essays & Treatises, Presbyterians

“Am I an opposer of a revival of religion, when I say the jirks, dancing &c. are not God’s instituted means of Grace, nor Scriptural evidences of true religion? and that when they are voluntary, they are a corruption of God’s worship?”

Excerpt from Joseph Thomas’s Life of the Pilgrim  (March 1806)

Excerpt from Joseph Thomas’s Life of the Pilgrim (March 1806)

1805-1809, Christians/Disciples of Christ, Dancing Exercise, Diaries & Journals, Laughing Exercise, Union Presbyterian Seminary

“In my serious reflections and enquiries after the salvation of my soul, the various noise and exercise of the people would oftentimes stagger me. I was sometimes rather doubtful, and almost led to believe that it was all enthusiasm and strong delusion….”

Excerpt from the Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (May 21, 1806)

1805-1809, Anonymous/Unknown, Church Records, Other Bodily Exercises & General References

“Bodily exercise profiteth little….”

Published Letter by Jacob Gruber (ca. 1806)

1805-1809, Dancing Exercise, Falling Exercise, Magazines & Newspapers, Methodists, Running Exercise

“When any ask me to explain all these antics or exercises, I say I do not explain what I do not understand. Many who had these exercises did not understand them—would not account for them. I am not called to analyze or methodize the jerks: have no tools for that work….”

Excerpt from the Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (May 25, 1808)

1805-1809, Anonymous/Unknown, Church Records, Other Bodily Exercises & General References, Presbyterians

“In the southern parts of our bounds, the extraordinary revivals of religion have considerably declined; bodily agitations are gradually disappearing….”

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