16 December 1714 A.D. George Whitfield Born
George Whitefield (1714 to 1770)
Calvinist Methodist
His Powerful Voice Could Reach 40,000.
George Whitefield
was born in Gloucester, England. Experiencing the new birth in 1735, he
immediately embarked on his lifelong calling as an evangelist. In the 1740s
there was a poor community outside of Bristol, England, a most degraded,
ignorant community called Kingswood, where thousands of people lived whom the
churches of the city considered not worth saving. One day this young man, moved
by the evangelistic fire in his soul, broke all traditions by standing up and
preaching to them in the open field. This was the beginning of the ministry of
George Whitefield, a ministry that touched the whole world before he was called
to Heaven September 30, 1770, from Newbury, Massachusetts. Benjamin Franklin
measured the distance Whitefield's voice could carry and confirmed he could be
heard by 40,000 people at once.
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