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Great Awakening

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Great Awakening

Religious revival in the American colonies from the late 1730s to the 1760s, sparked off by George Whitefield (1714-1770), an itinerant English Methodist preacher whose evangelical fervour and eloquence made many converts. A second ‘great awakening’ occurred in the first half of the 19th century, establishing the evangelist tradition in US Protestantism.
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There is some clash of opinion as to the exact hour of the great awakening.
The Poison Belt by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn.
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