Something extraordinary seemed necessary to arrest the attention of a giddy people who were ready to conclude that Christianity was a fable and futurity a delusion.

This revival has done it.

It has confounded infidelity and brought numbers beyond calculation under serious impressions." A sermon preached in 1803 to the Presbyterian synod of Kentucky, by the Rev.David Rice, has the value of testimony given in the presence of other competent witnesses, and liable thus to be questioned or contradicted.

In it he says: "Neighborhoods noted for their vicious and profligate manners are now as much noted for their piety and good order.
Drunkards, profane swearers, liars, quarrelsome persons, etc., are remarkably reformed....

A number of families who had lived apparently without the fear of God, in folly and in vice, without any religious instruction or any proper government, are now reduced to order and are daily joining in the worship of God, reading his word, singing his praises, and offering up their supplications to a throne of grace.