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[3]: 45–49 The Cane Creek Monthly Meeting is often referred to as the "Mother of Meetings" because it gave rise to a number of other Monthly Meetings in the region. [3]: 31 The Meeting House operated a school named the Sylvan Grove Academy between 1866 and 1903. The current Sylvan Elementary school in Snow Camp reflects its heritage.
John Swanel Inskip (August 10, 1816 – March 7, 1884) was an American minister and evangelist affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church.He was a proponent of family sittings in church and a leader in the holiness movement, serving as founder and president of the National Camp Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness from 1867 until his death.
The original Cane Ridge Meeting House within the Stone Memorial Building. The Cane Ridge Revival was a large camp meeting that was held in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, from August 6 to August 12 or 13, 1801. [1][2] It was the " [l]argest and most famous camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening." [3] This camp meeting launched a multitude of smaller ...
Friends meeting houses are places of worship for the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. A "meeting" is the equivalent of a church congregation, and a "meeting house" is the equivalent of a church building. Several Friends meetings were founded in Pennsylvania in the early 1680s. [a] The Merion Friends Meeting House is the only surviving ...
The camp meeting is a form of Protestant Christian religious service originating in England and Scotland as an evangelical event in association with the communion season. It was held for worship, preaching and communion on the American frontier during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century.
The Holiness movement is a Christian movement that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism, [1][2] and to a lesser extent influenced other traditions such as Quakerism, Anabaptism, and Restorationism. [3][4] Churches aligned with the holiness movement teach that the life of a born again Christian should be free of sin. [5][6] The movement ...
Camp meetings, which are outdoor religious revival services, began for the purpose of revitalizing faith, particularly in the aftermath of the American Civil War.In 1866, under the authority of the officers of the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the "Newark Conference Camp Meeting Association of Methodists" operated several annual Camp Meetings at Lake Speedwell near ...
Theologically he was an Arminian, and was convinced that all people could be saved, especially through the camp meeting revival. [ 2 ] In the Methodist church, the presiding elder oversaw the works of preachers and churches to which he was assigned, and was below the bishop in the denomination's chain of command.