Shortly thereafter, the young boy’s mother died. They went together, killed all the revivalists, and buried them in a mass grave. They had never seen a revival like this one. After three consecutive nights of revivals, several men in the town became very upset. An eleven-year old boy was awakened by the strange sound of drumming.

In 1865 as the Civil War continued to rage, a cult of religious wanderers arrived in a small town and set up a tent revival. A terror that has spanned the centuries has once again been awakened. Drumbeats portending death … death, coming closer, growing louder. Then the ominous drumbeats returned … a signal that unspeakable evil was once again loosed upon the town, ready to again tempt the unsuspecting. The 1990s … farmland being swallowed up as suburbs rise … why would anyone stop the bulldozing of one old sycamore tree? A single person witnessed the awakening of the ancients, the bodies luminescing with an other-worldly light.

How could he predict that just four days hence he would lose his mother? That the local farmers would join to murder and bury every single member of the strange religious cult that had recently invaded their town? As the sun set following the slaughter, the eleven year old boy would witness the sole survivor, a young girl, planting a sycamore tree atop the graves and murmuring the words: “As long as this tree lives, they’ll stay buried.” OL28770179W Page_number_confidence 97.03 Pages 406 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220908132033 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 674 Scandate 20220901003234 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780821750056 Tts_version 5.The Civil War … 1865 … the young boy wakes to the sound of drumbeats, booming like thunder. Urn:oclc:record:1345653296 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier nightthunder0000jens Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2zdj9fdx1v Invoice 1652 Isbn 0821750054ĩ780821750056 Lccn 2011487643 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000713 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:01:27 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40684303 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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