Burke's new pulpit became the most tumultuous of four centers of activity, including also the tent, the meetinghouse, and a Negro assembly area, probably about 150 yards southeast of the church. Dozens of informal circles or organized or semi-organized prayer groups met at various camping sites. While by Monday most people had to leave and return to their farms, the news had spread and people kept coming until organized effort ceased on Thursday. Indeed, black religion in the South may have had some influence on expected or sanctioned ways of giving bent to religious ecstasy at Cane Ridge . What the exercises revealed were religiously serious people who, in a powerfully suggestive environment , chose, or were forced, to reenact the drama of Jesus' passion and the ever-recurring drama of their own tortured quest for salvation.
Mysticism is legalism.
T his, like the Jubilee theme may deny the totally adequate atonement of Jesus Christ . The quiet Lord's Supper celebrates what Jesus Christ has done to fulfill Jubilee, Passover and all Jewish rituals. Certain techniques, which ministers conscientiously learned , helped push audiences toward an ecstatic frenzy . Certain hymns , certain tunes worked better than others. Certain repeated and familiar verbal images , those with great resonance for an audience, worked better than others.