George Whitefield: Clergyman and Scholar (Colonial Leaders) by Susan Martins Miller

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George decided it was better to keep preaching in the open air, where there was always enough room for anyone who wanted to hear him speak. 54 GEORGE WHITEFIELD George stayed in New England for only a few weeks, but his preaching began a revival that lasted for a year and a half. Other preachers took up where he left off. During such revivals, many people strengthened their belief in God. They held religious services, read from the Bible, listened to preaching, and sang. George did not know it at the time, but he had helped to begin the Great Awakening.

Finally, he traveled on a ship to America in the early part of 1738. His ship passed another ship in the middle of the ocean. John Wesley was on the other ship. He was on his way back to England. John’s work in Georgia had not gone well. He thought perhaps he had made a mistake in going to America. Before long, his brother Charles gave up on the work in Georgia, too. 31 32 GEORGE WHITEFIELD George did not know that his friend John was on his way back to England. He was still full of hope about doing God’s work in America.

After George White- it was also of interest to in- field came, people became tellectuals. The new churches opened colleges to involved in a religious re- train their ministers. Many vival that happened not just of these schools still exist in one colony but every- today. The College of New where. The colonists began Jersey opened in 1746 and to think that God had a spe- later became Princeton University; King’s College of cial destiny for America. New York opened in 1746 People with ideas about and later became Columbia government also began to University; the College of work together, trying to dis- Rhode Island opened in cover what kind of future 1764 and later became Brown University.

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