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 His diary begins, like Charles', with their journey to Georgia in the American colonies in 1735.

His missionary
work there was not a success, but led to him being influenced by the Moravian Church, and in 1738 he
visited their German headquarters.
 Returning to England, he began to travel the country as a preacher,
 or the next fifty years he travelled through Britain, and sometimes abroad
https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/travellers/J_Wesley
 The 18th century found the Church of England out of touch with both the religious and social problems of
the day.
 Its leadership was constituted largely by political appointees, its clergy were riddled with ignorance, and
churchmen of genuine concern were rare. The influence of rationalism and deism even among dedicated
clergymen caused the Anglican Church to be unaware of the spiritual needs of the masses. John Wesley's
great achievement was to recognize the necessity of bringing religion to this wide and neglected audience.
https://biography.yourdictionary.com/john-wesley
 Wesley’s religious journey from 1729 to the 1780s 
 reat Awakening was an extended historical period that included countless
evangelical movements that challenged traditional ideologies of the 17th and
18th century church and was essentially a religious battleground of competing
religious ideas and mass conversions. 
https://people.smu.edu/mappingthega/stories/s15/
by Paul Romon

Great Awakening, religious revival in the British American
colonies mainly between about 1720 and the 1740s.
CONTRIBUTOR:
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
TITLE
Great Awakening
PUBLISHER
Encyclopædia Britannica
DATE PUBLISHED
December 10, 2019
URL
https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Awakening
ACCESS DATE
November 08, 2020
 Wealth brought complacency toward God. As a result,
church membership dropped.
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11630212.html

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What was the Great Awakening?


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Diane Severance, Ph.D.

2010

 Labourers lived in extreme squalor while the nobles lived in luxury. The judicial and political
office holders flourished in prosperity, fashionable and refined living but a few yards away from
them were the profiteering underworld of thieves, footpads, forgers, beggars and harlots
 The socio-economic, religious and political state of 18th century England prior to the ministry of
John Wesley was to say the least precarious.
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 In the 1700s, a European philosophical movement known as
the Enlightenment , or the Age of Reason, was making its way
across the Atlantic Ocean to the American colonies .
Enlightenment thinkers emphasized a scientific and logical view
of the world, while downplaying religion
 George Whitefield made a huge impact and is a great contributor to the Great Awakening.
Whitefield preached to the slaves and Native Americans in Georgia in such captivating way that
he even Benjamin Franklin, a religious skeptic, was fascinated.
 Through the Great Awakening, Methodists and Baptist expanded rapidly.
 As well as establishments of educational institutions
 Influenced revolutionary war by encouraging the notions of nationalism and
individual rights.

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