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God be thanked that Heaven 's gates have been opened in this place of hell . '' Garrison saw the point . Of the revival he wrote that it had `` spread like an epidemic in all directions , over a wide extent of country . Prayer meetings , morning , noon and night ; prayer meetings in town , village , and hamlet , North and South . The whole thing is an emotional contagion without principle . This revival , judging from the past , will promote meanness , not manliness ; delusion , not intelligence ; the growth of bigotry , not of humanity ; a spurious religion , not genuine piety . '' Theodore Parker denounced the mania too , and was attacked for it by Methodists and others .