George Whitefield: the open-air preacher of the Great Awakening
George Whitefield, an English preacher, crossed the Atlantic many times in the eighteenth century and preached to vast outdoor crowds in Britain and the American colonies.…
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Billy Graham’s 1957 New York crusade: sixteen weeks at Madison Square Garden
In 1957, Billy Graham held a crusade in New York that ran for sixteen weeks, filling Madison Square Garden night after night and drawing a huge…
“On a hill far away”: George Bennard, a travelling evangelist, and the story of “The Old Rugged Cross”
George Bennard, a Methodist evangelist, wrote "The Old Rugged Cross" in 1912 and it was first sung publicly in 1913 in Michigan. It became one of…