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- W260038503 abstract "In his journal for Sunday, September 23, 1759, John Wesley, after preaching to a “vast multitude of the immense congregation in Moorfields and noting the “expediency of field preaching” commented “By repeated observations I find I can command thrice the number in the open air [that] I can under a roof. And who can say the time for field preaching is over while (1) greater numbers than ever attend, (2) the converting as well as convincing power of God is eminently present with them?”1 The preachers commissioned by Wesley to take his movement to the new world doubtless came intent on honoring his field-preaching imperative. They soon discovered that only a fool would stand in a field under the blistering American summer sun or expect a congregation to endure such folly. Instead, the preachers gathered congregations in the shade of a stately forest or under an oak’s spreading branches. Relishing these natural cathedrals, the preachers also found the woods a place for solitude, prayer, and devotions. And as they took Methodism west, they found forests to be wilderness, full of dangers, some life-threatening. All three experiences of the American woodland proved important. So Methodists sacralized American woodlands as cathedral, as confessional, as challenge—as shady grove (nature’s cathedral), as garden (a Gethsemane where temptations might be fought and spiritual solace sought), and as wilderness (a challenge through and into which the Methodist ‘gospel’ must be taken). All three of these spiritualizations of the woodland would eventually come together in the dramas known as camp meetings, staged revivals that became a Methodist signature." @default.
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- W260038503 title "Shady Grove, Garden, and Wilderness: Methodism and the American Woodland" @default.
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