George Whitefield
George Whitefield
George Whitefield was a Methodist preacher during the First Great Awakening. He was born in Gloucester, England on December 16, 1714 and was buried in Newburyport, Massachusetts on September 30, 1770. Whitefield took voyages to the New World seven times, voyages whose one-way trips took two months. He called both sides of the Atlantic “home”. He was the most traveled preacher of the gospel up to his time and many feel he was the greatest evangelist of all time. His diligence and sacrifice helped turn two nations back to God. He spent about 24 years of ministry in the British Isles and about nine more years in America, speaking to some ten million souls. In the New World, Whitefield preached from Georgia to New England, always raising money for the orphanage he had established in Savannah. New York, Boston, Philadelphia, the Carolinas, and even Harvard University were all beneficiaries of his ministry as he was anything but “the generality of preachers......
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