third great Awakening, but he insisted that it had not yet ‘reached the pitch of effectiveness of either of its predecessors.’ Real revival would amount to more than what was going on just then, insisted evangelist Fred B. Hoffman. It would ‘regenerate the whole life of America’ and would be manifest ‘in every church, in every city and town and village and rural community’ of the nation. Here was a mythic understanding of revival that could never be fulfilled across a vast and variegated modern nation