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A camp meeting during the Second Great Awakening. These gatherings were very common. Camp meetings became one of the most popular ways to preach the revival message.

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Video Explaining the Second Great Awakening

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Video Explaining the Second Great Awakening

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjt392m36yo

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Led what would become one of the most successful revivals in the Second Great awakening. He was able to do this by preaching nearly everyday and 3 times on Sunday. Finney's first target were business elites, and then converting their workers. Unlike the others in his time Finney believed humans were not passive objects of God's predestined plan, but moral free agents who could determine their future based on their actions, therefor eradicate sin. He then drove Christian's to seek social reform.

1818-1821: Worked in the law office of B. Wright.
1821: Converted to Christianity
1824: Ordained
1824-1825: beginnings of revivals in small New York towns.
1830-1831: great Rochester revival,  national recognition, highpoint  as revivalist.
1840-1848: preaching tours: Boston, New York  City. Perfectionist message.

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-The second great awakening enrolled millions of new members to various religions. Methodists growing up to 1,000,000 members.

-Began the emergence of other movements such as the prohibition of alcohol, support for women's rights, and better education.

- Establishment of religious schools and bible groups.

-Stronger abolitionist movements in the north, and stronger pro-slavery movement in the south.

-An emergence in black Protestantism and the founding of African-American churches.

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Cane Ridge, KY was the largest camp meeting that drew Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians.This was the cause of the Restoration Movement which formed the Church of Christ.

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Excerpt from The Camp Meeting Manual: a Practical Book for the Camp Ground, In Two Parts written in 1854 by Reverend Barlow Reed Gorham

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Excerpt from The Camp Meeting Manual: a Practical Book for the Camp Ground, In Two Parts written in 1854 by Reverend Barlow Reed Gorham

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Let every such brother state all his objections plainly and fully in the council, and then, on taking the vote on the question of holding the meeting, if there is not a very near approach to unanimity, I would advise to reconsider immediately, and discuss further, till either the reluctant brethren pledge themselves to yield their prejudices to the majority, and identify themselves fully and heartily with the meeting, or the whole enterprise be abandoned or postponed. There are few misfortunes to a District greater of its kind, than a miserable failure of a Camp Meeting...There is no such thing as mediocrity in a Camp Meeting. To escape contempt, it must be the greatest assemblage and the most thrilling occasion of religious worship known to the church. When, therefore, it has been resolved to hold one for any District, the Presiding Elder, in his larger sphere of influence, and the preachers upon their respective charges, should labor unremittingly to rally the people to the ground from every part of the District. In this thing the preachers must take the lead. I have been upon several charges where the people have coolly said at first, “We don’t go to Camp Meetings here;” but with proper exertion have never thus far failed to see a good representation of my flock on the ground.
Let the preachers show that they, and, so far as possible, their families also, are identified with the meeting about to be held; let them announce it from Sabbath to Sabbath with emphasis; let them pray publicly and earnestly, as well as privately, for the blessing of God upon the coming occasion; let them exhort the people to pray for it also, whether they intend to go or not; and finally, let a special prayer meeting be held on the evening before starting for the meeting, if it be practicable. These measures, taken with the proper spirit, will bring the blessing of God in a baptism of power upon preacher and people; and they will generally inspire large numbers, both out of the church and in, with a determination to attend, who had else scarcely thought of the thing. Every member of the church can do something to add to the interest of the coming occasion; and that whether they can go themselves or not. Let a mother, for instance, who, for any reason, cannot attend in person, fit out a daughter, and entrust her to the special care of some judicious female friend of the congenial tastes and ardent piety, spending herself some hours in special prayer every day for the salvation of her child during the meeting. Let a son be sent, with arrangements thus suited to his position and character. Many families can contribute something toward the getting up of a tent, and others can assume a few small cares for a neighboring family, to enable them to attend....
All members of the church who cannot be present themselves, should plead with God daily and earnestly for his blessing upon the meeting. And if there are any who can only attend a single day, going in the proper spirit, they will doubtless find it highly profitable. Thus every member of the church can contribute something to the interests of this extraordinary means of grace; and if this were done in a single instance, results incalculably great and glorious would doubtless follow...

On the Camp ground, as in the army, and for similar reasons, there must be a general Head.