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Latest News from Three Worlds: Heaven, Earth, and Hell

Latest news from three worlds, heaven, earth and hell : as reported at a four-days meeting in Shirley, Mass. in letters to eight Calvinistic ministers

The most notorious satire the controversy produced. Streeter attended a four-day revival at Woodstock, Vermont, and published this mock 'report' of its proceedings — the calculated terrors, the anxious seats, the theology of the pit — as intelligence fresh from heaven, earth, and hell. Savage, funny, and much denounced, it shows the Universalist counterattack on revival religion at its sharpest edge, and preserves an eyewitness picture of a Second Great Awakening revival in full cry.

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