Signs, omens and impressions directed them to their field of labor and controlled their lives.
Ecstatic joy, vivid impressions, voices in the air, or seeing the Lord in the tree-tops, were their evidences of pardon.
Once every year the people came together to a great camp-meeting.

There was intense excitement and enthusiasm, and many got religion; and this was followed by spiritual lethargy, coldness and apostasy.

It was a short, hot summer, followed by a long, cold winter of moral and spiritual death.
Among the Old Baptists there was preaching once a month.

This was all.
There were no prayer-meetings, no meeting together every first day of the week to break break and read the Holy Scriptures.

Christian morality was at a low ebb, and Christian liberality down to zero.
At length there came a change.