Awaken, by Lawrence Tribble
One man awake,
Awakens another.
The second awakens
His next door brother.
The three awake can rouse
A town
By turning the whole place
Upside down.
The many awake
Can cause such a fuss
It finally awakens the
Rest of us.
One man up,
With dawn in his eyes
Surely then
Multiplies.
"The Great Awakening” touched every section of the colonial domains of England in the New World-from northernmost New England to southernmost Georgia. And its impact was enormous. Interestingly, this cultural and spiritual phenomenon was entirely driven by grassroots evangelism and community cooperation, as this famous verse illustrates." ~ George Grant, The Patriot's Handbook
The Great Awakening resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of personal guilt and of their need of salvation by Christ. Some of the influential people during the Great Awakening were George Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards, and Gilbert Tennent. It brought Christianity to African-American slaves and had a major impact in reshaping the Congregational church, the Presbyterian church, the Dutch Reformed Church, and the German Reformed denomination, and strengthened the small Baptist and Methodist denominations.
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