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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Moody and Sankey: the preacher and the singer who filled halls on two continents
Dwight L. Moody, a former shoe salesman, and Ira D. Sankey, a singer from Pennsylvania, led huge evangelistic campaigns in America and Britain in the 1870s.…
Garrick Sokari Braide: the Niger Delta prophet who led a mass revival in 1915
Garrick Sokari Braide, a Kalabari evangelist from the Niger Delta, led a mass revival from about 1915 in which thousands abandoned traditional shrines. Called Elijah II…
Written at a camp meeting in Maryland: “There Is Power in the Blood”
"There Is Power in the Blood" was written in 1899 by Lewis E. Jones while he was attending a camp meeting at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland.…