"Dear Sister,

"I hasten to give you an account of the revival of religion, and some of the remarkable /57/ circumstances thereof. I am sure the most discerning and observant pensman, or the nicest pencil, could not portray to your imagination, the full idea of the meeting that took place at Kain-ridge, in Bourbon-county: -- I shall confine myself only to a few particulars --

"This meeting was published about one month generally, throughout the Presbyterian connexion, as one of their annual sacraments: thither assembled the religious of every denomination, some from one hundred miles distant, but more particularly the Presbyterians and Methodists, who are in full communion with each other: -- lastly the Baptists, who preach with each other, but do not commune. To this general assembly I set off last Friday, and arrived there on Saturday about 10 o'clock: I then began to note some of the most extraordinary particulars: I first proceeded to count the waggons containing families, with their provisions, camp equipage, &c. to the number of 147: at 11 o'clock the quantity of ground occupied by horses, waggons, &c. was about the same size as the square between Market, Chesnut, Second and Third-streets, of Philadelphia -- There was at this place a stage erected in the woods, about 100 yards from the meeting-house, where were a number of Presbyterian and Methodist ministers; one of the former preaching to as many as could get near enough to hear -- in the house also, was another of the same denomination, preaching to a crowded audience -- at the same time another large concourse of people collected about 100 yards in an east direction from the meeting-house, hearing a Methodist speaker -- and about 150 yards in a fourth course from the house was an assembly of black people, hearing the exhortations of the blacks, some of whom appeared deeply convicted, and others converted. The number of communicants who received tokens were 750, nor was there a sufficiency of them - these tokens are small pieces of lead, the size of a five-penny bit, with the letter A or B impressed thereon, and distributed by the ministers to the members of the several churches, not excluding any baptist who apply for them. I believe there was at one time as many as three hundred who exhorted on this occasion. /58/ I noted a remarkable instance of a little girl, by the name of Barbara, about 7 years old, who was set upon a man's shoulder, agreeably to her desire, to speak to the multitude, which she did, until she appeared almost exhausted, and leaned back her head on her bearer. A tender hearted old man, standing close behind her, observed, "Poor thing, she had better be laid down;" at which she quickly turned round her head, and said, "Don't call me poor, for Christ is my brother, God my father, and I have a kingdom to inherit, therefore don't call me poor, for I am rich in the blood of the Lamb."

["And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were sore displeased, and said unto him, hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, yea; have ye never read, out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise!"]

"Permit me to ask, are we, like those new converts, constantly in season, and out of season beseeching our friends and fellow sinners to surrender to the demand of "My Son give me thine heart!" So far as relates to myself, I am not only a fruitless but a leafless tree, encumbering the ground of gospel light."

"Last Sunday the association was held at Higby's, 6 miles from here, where it is said, there were from 8 to 10 thousand persons; and on the same day in the two counties adjoining, there were, at two congregations, from 18,000 to 25,000 souls."