Subject:  American Minute - September 30 - George Whitfield
Date:  Fri, 30 Sep 2005 04:58:54 GMT
American Minute with Bill Federer
September 30

Seven times he came to the American Colonies, preaching to crowds of over 25,000 and spreading the Great Awakening Revival, which helped unite the colonies prior to the Revolution.
Ben Franklin wrote in his Autobiography:
“He preach'd one evening from the top of the Court-house steps...Streets were fill'd with his hearers to a considerable distance...
I had the curiosity to learn how far he could be heard by retiring backwards down the street...and found his voice distinct till I came near Front-street.”
Who was Franklin describing but Reverend George Whitefield, who died this day, September 30, 1770.
Franklin continued:
“Multitudes of all denominations that attended his sermons were enormous...It was wonderful to see.”
Franklin printed his sermons and financed the largest building in Philadelphia for his meetings, which became the first building of the University of Pennsylvania.
Franklin wrote to Whitefield:
"I sometimes wish that you and I were jointly employed by the Crown to settle a colony on the Ohio...to settle in that fine country a strong body of religious and industrious people!..
Might it not greatly facilitate the introduction of pure religion among the heathen, if we could, by such a colony, show them a better sample of Christians than they commonly see in our Indian traders?
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