![]() Rather than expounding on the intricacies of Christian doctrine, he appealed to the emotions of his listeners at home in England, and now, still only twenty-five years old, he had brought his new style to the American colonies. He and his wife joined a throng of others hurrying along the roads to Middletown, afraid they would arrive too late to hear the famous preacher.Īfter receiving his degree from Oxford University, Whitefield had begun a life of itinerant preaching and evangelism. Nathan immediately dropped his tools in the field, ran to fetch his wife, and saddled his horse. Suddenly his labor was interrupted by a passing messenger’s shouts: at 10 o’clock the evangelist George Whitefield was going to preach in nearby Middletown. This Narrative should be followed by the What Was the Great Awakening? Point-Counterpoint.ĭuring a cool October 1740 morning in Kensington, Connecticut, Nathan Cole was hard at work in his field, as he had been since sunrise. ![]() Before reading this Narrative, students should be familiar with the role of religion and challenges to religious authority in the New England colonies ( Anne Hutchinson and Religious Dissent and The Salem Witch Trials Narratives). ![]()
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