1826. He had often tried to “get religion,” as the phrase is here; he had laboured as hard for it, as he ever had at rolling logs, and that whatever was the reason, do all he could, to him it would never come.—T. Flint, ‘Recollections,’ p. 35.
1834. He had, in the popular phrase of the country, “got religion;” and, like the worthy reformers of the Cromwell era, everything which he did, and everything which he said, had Scripture for its authority.—W. G. Simms, ‘Guy Rivers,’ ii. 84 (1837).
1837. In one night sometimes hundreds would be converted, or ‘get religion.’—Knick. Mag., ix. 354 (April).
1908. We went home feelin’ like we’d been through a big protracted meetin’ and got religion over again.—Eliza C. Hall, ‘Aunt Jane of Kentucky,’ p. 24.
