Around the experience of glossolalia, that is, speaking in tongues, a group of American society was forming a new religious culture. The entrepreneurial spirit of the pioneer was reclaiming the right of the people to determine their own social ethics within the confines of religious belief. Pastors had, traditionally, been the most educated person in town. Now, the passion of a people who had discovered that God was accessible and ready to fill their souls with divine purpose was producing pastors whose educational background was irrelevant. Theirs was a religion of experience, of signs and wonders, of a relevant God of the people, the poor, a God whose power could transform a life in an evening.