In December 1839 a member of a Perfectionist sect in Newark, New Jersey, died. Fellow Perfectionists arranged a funeral at a nearby “country estate,” when a winter storm blew up and the mourners found themselves “snow-bound for two days at the hospitable mansion.” We do not know precisely what happened during those two days, but one sympathetic historian reports that there was “much unedifying talk and loose behavior” as well as “much singing of ‘Babylon Is Fallen,’ ” a rousing hymn about the triumph of God’s kingdom over the powers of this world.1
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