In 1740 George Whitefield wrote, "All things concur to convince me that America is to be my chief scene for action." Thank you, Lord, for giving George Whitefield to us for the next thirty plus years. Historians often say American as we know it could have never come to be without his leading role of unifying the Colonies in the pre-Revolutionary War era.
He was the first nationally noted celebrity in America, founded our first benevolent institution (an orphanage in Savannah GA), preached to slaves and helped give them material for their Gospel songs, and even gave us the phrase "Cleanliness is next to Godliness."
One of his greatest contributions to our country was what happened to his converts. People by the thousands were born again, but then faced the difficulty of not having any churches of like mind to join. The mainline churches, Anglican and Congregational, opposed the concept of being born again. The result was that a flood of new converts entered lowbrow backwater Methodist and Baptist churches, starting a wave of momentum in these two denominations that still washes over this land today.
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