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Book Review: Cane Ridge: America's Pentecost

The great revival which occurred in August, 1801 at Cane Ridge, Kentucky territory, is a mythic event in the annals of American evangelicalism. It has been described in numerous works on American culture and religion. The scene was an amazing one. Observers claimed crowds of 10-25,000 people, black and white, male and female. Preaching went on night and day as hundreds of "seekers" were converted, experiencing a variety of "exercises" which produced laughing, running, jerking, shouting and falling. Great denominational impetus on the frontier was nurtured at Cane Ridge—Baptists, Methodists, Disciples of Christ, Presbyterians participated together. Today the Cane Ridge Shrine is preserved by the Disciples of Christ who in the 1950s built a beautiful stone structure over the original log church as a way of retaining a valuable tradition for all those who remember that significant 19th century event. (During my 16 years at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary my students and I made many pilgrimages to Cane Ridge. It was always a moving experience.)