Owing to my gloomy Calvinistic training in the old Scotch Presbyterian church, and my vivid imagination, I was one of the first victims.

We attended all the public services, beside the daily prayer and experience meetings held in the seminary.

Our studies, for the time, held a subordinate place to the more important duty of saving our souls.
To state the idea of conversion and salvation as then understood, one can readily see from our present standpoint that nothing could be more puzzling and harrowing to the young mind.

The revival fairly started, the most excitable were soon on the anxious seat.

There we learned the total depravity of human nature and the sinner's awful danger of everlasting punishment.