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The Great Awakening Comes to Connecticut (1740)

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The Great Awakening Comes to Connecticut (1740)
Nathan Cole
Now it pleased God to send Mr. Whitefield into this land . . . And I soon heard he was come to New York and the Jerseys and great multitudes flocking after him under great concern for their Souls and many converted . . . and more hoping soon to see him. . . .
We went down in the Stream; I heard no man speak a word all the way three miles but every one pressing forward in great haste and when we got to the old meeting house there was a great multitude; it was said to be 3 or 4000 of people assembled together. . . .
And my hearing him preach gave me a heart wound; by God's blessing my old foundation was broken up, and I saw that my righteousness would not save me; then I was convinced of the doctrine of Election and went right to quarrelling with God about it, because all that I could do would not save me; and he had decreed from Eternity who should be saved and who not.
Source: George Leon Walker, Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New England (New York: Silver, Burnett, and Company, 1897) , 89-92
-Which of the following best describes a result of the First Great Awakening?


A) Colonists became concerned about the religious affiliations of politicians.
B) Ideas of salvation as based on free will or on predestination both became more popular.
C) Religious activity infused the masses, including slaves and women.
D) Traditional authority and the commercial society were widely questioned.

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