Hodge’s history of the Great Awakening has to be considered the definitive treatment of that event. Avoiding the hagiography and mythology that have shrouded men’s perceptions for so long, he recounts for us what actually occurred. Although he upholds the revivalists as good and godly men he does not spare them when they are wrong. His balanced and faithful account, thoroughly documented from the historical sources of his day, enables us to learn the lessons of church history associated with the revival, its aftermath, and the resultant schism in the Presbyterian Church.