Three Significant Columns

“This democratic impulse exploded into full revolt near the beginning of the nineteenth century, and three significant columns began to march on the older established order of Christendom. The political revolution was accomplished in the election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency in 1829. The ecclesiastical revolution was ushered in during the Second Great Awakening, beginning on the Kentucky frontier in 1799 and spreading through ardent revivalist preachers such as Charles Finney in the early decades of that century. The educational revolution was led by Horace Mann, who was dedicated to bringing this democratic ‘gospel’ to the children in order to perpetuate that democratic order to future generations” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, pp. 31-32)