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(VERMONT REVIVAL). STREETER, RUSSELL. Mirror of Calvinistic Fanaticism, or Jedediah Burchard & Co. During a Protracted Meeting of Twenty-Six Days in Woodstock, Vermont. Second Edition. Woodstock, [Vt.]: Nahum Haskell, 1835. 18mo. 168 pp. Orig. cloth backed printed boards. Inside front hinge cracked; covers oiled and rubbed. $275.00

 

Rinderknecht 34419, a much expanded edition. The back cover contains important additional text relative to a resolution not to attend Burchard's revival meetings. Several years earlier revivals were welcomed in Vermont as a way of improving society, but by the mid 1830s they were perceived by many as a factor in dividing communities.