Private beliefs, public expression

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Religious revivals swept the American Western frontier at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. These services offered a special place at the front of the church called the "anxious bench" for people who were grappling with their sins. "They did their business before God and before everybody else present," Ryan Harper said.

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