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"A JORNAL OF A FUE DAYS AT YORK": THE GREAT AWAKENING ON THE NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND FRONTIER"
BY DOUGLAS L. WINIARSKI
( A Great Read, ... A 'MUST' Read !, ... as a 'KINGDOM COME' pick me up, and a Great preface and Theme for our proposed early Fall PATRIOTS & PATRIARCHS Prayer and REVIVAL RALLY ! ....... a Kingdom MUST for such a dark Time as THIS ! )
During the early 1740s, New England communities along the northern frontier witnessed a series of religious revivals that were part of a transatlantic movement known as the Great Awakening. Promoted by touring evangelists such as George Whitefield and lesser known local clergyman, the revivals dominated the daily activities of ordinary men and women.
Published here for the first time, Jornal of a fue Days at York, 17 41 ,"presents a vivid portrayal of the local dynamics of the Awakening in Maine and New Hampshire.
The author, an anonymous Boston merchant, chronicled nightly prayer meetings, conversations with pious local residents, and powerful sermon performances by visiting preachers over a two-week period in the fall of 1741. The document demonstrates how the York revival attracted dozens of visitors from neighboring towns and forged an elite network of evangelical ministers, merchants, and magistrates that stretched from Boston to the coastal villages of Maine.
Douglas Winiarski is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Richmond and the author of several articles on religion in early America. This essay is part of a larger study that explores the transformation of New England Congregationalism in the eighteenth century. I T IS THE "opinion of many;' Arthur Browne complained in a letter dated December 10, 1741, that "there has been an extraordinary work on foot in the Land."
A Portsmouth, New Hampshire's Anglican rector chose an apt metaphor for his brief assessment of the religious revivals that had gripped the northern New England frontier earlier that fall. For weeks, he explained; a "great concourse of people"-ministers, college students, and laity alike-had flocked to the coastal community of York, Maine to witness firsthand the alleged work of the Holy Spirit. Like most of New England's Anglican clergy, Browne was skeptical of the emerging evangelical temperament that had surfaced in the towns that lay across the Piscataqua River to the north, and he cynically suggested
CONTINUE READING: (45) A Jornal of a Fue Days at York": The Great Awakening on the Northern New England Frontier | Douglas Winiarski - Academia.edu
Patriots & Patriarchs
2023
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Many of you well know that one of my favorite pertinent verses for the Signs and Times we've experienced ever since Bibles were taken out of the classrooms is JUDE 1:3
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