Scots and Scots-Irish predominated in many parts of the frontier at this time, and had brought their familiar Presbyterian communion season practices with them. The camp meeting is a phenomenon of American frontier Christianity, as well as British Christianity, but with strong roots in traditional practices of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland and the United States. Certain denominations took the lead in different geographic areas.Īs with brush arbor revivals and tent revivals, camp meetings today are often held annually at campgrounds owned by a Christian denomination. The practice was a major component of the Second Great Awakening, an evangelical movement promoted by Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and other preachers in the early 19th century. Camp meetings offered community, often singing and other music, sometimes dancing, and diversion from work. Originally camp meetings were held in frontier areas, where people without regular preachers would travel on occasion from a large region to a particular site to camp, pray, sing hymns, and listen to itinerant preachers at the tabernacle. Revivals and camp meetings continued to be held by various denominations, and in some areas of the mid-Atlantic, led to the development of seasonal cottages for meetings. It was held for worship, preaching and communion on the American frontier during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century. The camp meeting is a form of Protestant Christian religious service originating in England and Scotland as an evangelical event in association with the communion season. A service of worship at the tabernacle of a camp meeting of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, held at Wesleyan Methodist Camp in Stoneboro, Pennsylvania.
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