Transcription of Benjamin Franklin on Rev. George Whitefield, 1739
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Benjamin Franklin on Rev. George Whitefield, 1739
National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763. *. Benjamin Franklin on Rev. George whitefield 1739. Benjamin Franklin (1778) Rev. George whitefield (1783). It is not hyperbole to describe George whitefield , the English clergyman who riveted colonists with his dramatic evangelical preaching, as a star celebrity. In our day he would have appeared on the covers of People and Time and been interviewed on 60. Minutes and Good Morning, America. He was the "Grand Itinerant," the traveling preacher with no home church (a troublesome point for American clergy) who toured the colonies seven times from the 1730s to the 1760s, delivering open-air sermons that left his huge audiences spellbound, penitent, and with souls "awakened" (thus the term "Great Awakening").
The following Instance will show something of the Terms on which we stood. Upon one of his Arrivals from England at Boston, he wrote to me that he should come soon to Philadelphia, but knew not
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