The Shearer Schoolhouse Revival was a series of Christian evangelical meetings conducted in mid-1896 in Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States.
[2][3][4] In the 1880s, Baptist preacher Richard Spurling was part of the Latter Rain Holiness movement in North Carolina and Tennessee.
[6] Spurling Jr held a Revival meeting in his Baptist church in Liberty, Tennessee, during 1892 during which some members spoke in tongues.
[7] In summer 1896 the CU organised a ten-day revival led by four lay evangelists (William Martin, Billy Hamby, Joe Tipton and Milton McNabb).
People came from surrounding areas to see what was happening and “more than 100 persons received the baptism with the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues.” At this point the Spurlings were joined by Methodist preacher W. F.