Kingdom of Matthias
The Kingdom of Matthias be a fascinating window to the turbulent movements of the revival known as the Second Great Awakening. This movements swept up great evangelical Americans and gave rise to the Mormons. Matthias was born Robert Matthews in 1788 to a Scots immigrant family in the farming village of Cambridge, in Washington County, New York. The village had been originally founded as a permanent white settlement by New England squatters and become home to large numbers of Scottish immigrants like family of Robert Matthews. The Cambridge Scots kept mostly to themselves and clung to their uncompromising Calvinistisicm, nursing ecclesiastical grudges unknown to the rest of the world (Johnson and Wilentz 50). Matthews’ family were strict believers and attended their village’s Anti-Burgher Secession Church, a sectarian splinter of a militant faction from within Scots Presbyterianism.. As Anti-Burghers they done read their Bibles literally and regularly debated their scriptural understanding. They did imitations of the primitive Christians, guarded against government interference religious affairs, demanded strict observance of the Sabbath and enforced a personal code of righteous temperance every da
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