{"id":2941,"date":"2015-01-12T06:57:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T11:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2019-02-19T07:05:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T12:05:30","slug":"lanius1836-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/2015\/01\/12\/lanius1836-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt from the Diary of Jacob Lanius (March 17, 1836)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;25px|||&#8221;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Oswald; font-weight: normal; font-size: x-large;\">Preaching in eastern Missouri during the 1830s, Methodist circuit rider Jacob Lanius witnesses a woman seized by the barking exercise. Barking was closely related to the jerks, and yet Lanius\u2019s puzzlement suggests that the rising generation of Methodist ministers had distanced themselves from the unruly somatic phenomena of the Great Revival. Contextual notes appear in square brackets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243; \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 50px;\">Thursday 17 [1836]. Preached at a House near Brother Z. Hughes and blest God we had a glorious season. One woman took what used to be called in Tennessee the barking exercise. This was something I never witnessed before, and something that I am not prepared to account for on any principal.<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243; \/][et_pb_image _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;on&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; src=&#8221;http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/files\/2015\/01\/Lanius1836-01.jpg&#8221; \/][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243; \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>Source<\/h3>\n<p>Jacob Lanius, diaries, 1833\u20131842, 435, Mss. 1147, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One woman took what used to be called in Tennessee the barking exercise. This was something I never witnessed before, and something that I am not prepared to account for on any principal.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":2946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86441,86443,96010,86383,86465,96011],"tags":[86413,96010,86355,86465,96013,96014],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1816-1860","category-barking-exercise","category-jacob-lanius","category-methodists-denominations","category-missouri","category-state-historical-society-of-missouri","tag-barking","tag-jacob-lanius","tag-methodists","tag-missouri","tag-potosi-mo","tag-washington-county-mo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/files\/2015\/01\/Lanius1836-1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}