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June, 2007
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Raccoon John Smith
Frontier Kentucky's Most Famous Preacher

By Elder John Sparks
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 462. Notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.)

In the wake of the Second Great Awakening, a radical new religious movement swept across the Upper South and the Midwest. Adherents to this movement—calling themselves variously Campbellites, Stoneites, Disciples of Christ, or simply Christians—sought to abolish all denominations and divisions within Christianity by restoring it to its primitive first-century simplicity. Many frontier people found this hopeful message beguiling. By 1850, the Stone/Campbellites numbered nearly a quarter million, with 186 "Restorationist" congregations in Indiana alone. In time, its growth would slow and the movement would splinter, but not before this quintessentially midwestern sect had established an enduring national presence. . . .
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