260-263 (American Church History Series, vols.xi., xii.).
[238:1] Tyler, "The Disciples"; Foster, "The Cumberland Presbyterians," _ubi supra_.
[240:1] Let me add an illustrative instance related to me by the distinguished Methodist, Dr.David P.Durbin.Standing near the platform from which he was to preach at a camp-meeting, he observed a powerfully built young backwoodsman who was manifestly there with no better intent than to disturb and break up the meeting.

Presently it became evident that the young man was conscious of some influence taking hold of him to which he was resolved not to yield; he clutched with both hands a hickory sapling next which he was standing, to hold himself steady, but was whirled round and round, until the bark of the sapling peeled off under his grasp.

But, as in the cases referred to by Dow, the attack was attended by no religious sentiment whatever.
On the manifestations in the Cumberland country, see McMasters, "United States," vol.ii., pp.

581, 582, and the sources there cited.

For some judicious remarks on the general subject, see Buckley, "Methodism," pp.
217-224.
[241:1] So Dr.Buckley, "Methodism," p.