Sudden outcries, hysteric weeping and laughter, faintings, catalepsies, trances, were customary concomitants of the revival preaching.

Multitudes fell prostrate on the ground, "spiritually slain," as it was said.

Lest the helpless bodies should be trampled on by the surging crowd, they were taken up and laid in rows on the floor of the neighboring meeting-house.

"Some lay quiet, unable to move or speak.

Some talked, but could not move.