... and emphasized emotion rather than great learning. People felt they could have spiritual salvation with out the need of a church. Every colonist, man or woman, poor or rich, black or white, experienced the exhilarating revivals. It brought to them a new kind of spirituality and powerful emotions that they had hardly experienced before. Nathan Cole, on going to hear George Whitefield at ... Whitefield's appearance before four thousand listeners, " I saw before me a cloud of fogg rising; I first thought it came from the great river, but as I came from nearer to the road, I heard a noise o...

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