Lesson 57 - 58 pg. 72 - 78 Flashcards
Describe David Brainerd
> best-remembered missionary of the Great Awakening
>young man with tuberculosis who preached in English with an interpreter named Tattamy to the Indians
Describe George Liele
> black slave from Virginia who went to Jamaica as a missionary
remembered as America’s first missionary to a foreign land
probably the first ordained black preacher in America
in 1779, he and his follower Andrew Bryan founded what may have been America’s first black Baptist church, in Savannah
started Jamaica’s first Baptist church
How was the education in America spurred with the Great Awakening?
> estimated that some fifty colleges were founded
four colleges which grew directly out of revival were Princeton University, Brown University, Rutgers University, and Dartmouth
grammar schools, orphanages, and other schools were established as result of Great Awakening
List the general improvements that came about by the Great Awakening in America
> education
religious freedom
social changes
What became an important vehicle for spreading the gospel to areas untouched by God’s Word?
Colonization became an important vehicle for spreading the gospel to areas untouched by God’s Word.
Describe Francis Asbury
> young Methodist evangelist sent by John Wesley to America to establish churches and Bible studies on western frontiers
began training young men who became known as circuit-riding preachers
Describe Peter Cartwright
> one of the best known Methodist circuit-riders
preached gospel throughout backwoods of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Illinois for over fifty years
How did the spirit of revival continue for many years in America?
through camp meetings which were held each year in virtually every rural area
Describe Charles Finney
> fiery evangelist
a converted lawyer from New York that made a convincing case for individual’s need of the gospel
impact of Finney’s revivals is often referred to as the Second Great Awakening which occurred about one hundred years after first Awakening
founded Oberlin College in Ohio
Describe John Jasper
> famous black slave preacher
while still a slave, preached wherever he could find a congregation
during Civil War, he ministered to wounded soldiers in Confederate hospitals
after war, he preached in churches throughout Virginia, Maryland, and New Jersey
Describe Dwight L. Moody
> from soles to souls
During latter part of 1800s, revivals of D.L. Moody and Ira Sankey (his song leader) shook America and England for God
converted Boston shoe salesman
Who was R.A. Torrey?
> great scholar as well as great preacher who followed Moody
Who was Fanny Crosby?
> blind hymn writer
>most prolific and significant writer of gospel songs in American history
Who was Charles Spurgeon?
> “Prince of Preachers”
pastored Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle in London, England
preached to more than 5,000 weekly for almost forty years
Who was T. Dewitt Talmage?
> prince of the American pulpit
every week for twenty-years filled 4,000 to 5,000 seat auditorium of his Brooklyn church in New York, as well as auditoriums across America and the British Isles
his sermons appeared weekly in 3,000 newspapers and magazines; he is said to have had 25 million readers
