Churches and Religion By: Mackenzie Price
• New England Colonies Churches in the New England colonies were usually meetinghouses. The services lasted almost all day and the church members had to sit on wooden benches the whole time. Every city had a meetinghouse, and in Boston, there were a total of 18 meetinghouses. In the 1660’s, churches started to evolve from makeshift buildings to larger meetinghouses with steeples and bells to house more people. The New Englanders were Puritan.
• Middle and Southern Colonies Churches in the middle colonies looked more like the churches we have right now than the church meetinghouses in New …show more content…
This revival was given the name, The Great Awakening. Two famous preachers, Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield were part of The Great Awakening. An important figure in the Great Awakening is Jonathan Edwards who was considered the one who started The Great Awakening. He was born in East Windsor, Connecticut on October 5, 1703. He was the only son out of eleven children. At age 13, he entered Yale and four years later, he graduated as valedictorian. At age 24, he married Sarah Pierpont, who was 17, and they had 11 children. He was most famous for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” This sermon said that “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked.” He is also remembered as a very important theologian. Another very important figure of the Great Awakening was George Whitefield. George was born in Gloucester, England on December 16, 1714. He was the youngest out of 7 children. His father was a wine merchant and innkeeper, but he died when George was 2 years old. He thought education wouldn’t work, so he asked his mother if he could drop out of school. After about a year, he decided to go back to school. When he was there, he found the “Holy Club” started by John and Charles
• New England Colonies Churches in the New England colonies were usually meetinghouses. The services lasted almost all day and the church members had to sit on wooden benches the whole time. Every city had a meetinghouse, and in Boston, there were a total of 18 meetinghouses. In the 1660’s, churches started to evolve from makeshift buildings to larger meetinghouses with steeples and bells to house more people. The New Englanders were Puritan.
• Middle and Southern Colonies Churches in the middle colonies looked more like the churches we have right now than the church meetinghouses in New …show more content…
This revival was given the name, The Great Awakening. Two famous preachers, Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield were part of The Great Awakening. An important figure in the Great Awakening is Jonathan Edwards who was considered the one who started The Great Awakening. He was born in East Windsor, Connecticut on October 5, 1703. He was the only son out of eleven children. At age 13, he entered Yale and four years later, he graduated as valedictorian. At age 24, he married Sarah Pierpont, who was 17, and they had 11 children. He was most famous for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” This sermon said that “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked.” He is also remembered as a very important theologian. Another very important figure of the Great Awakening was George Whitefield. George was born in Gloucester, England on December 16, 1714. He was the youngest out of 7 children. His father was a wine merchant and innkeeper, but he died when George was 2 years old. He thought education wouldn’t work, so he asked his mother if he could drop out of school. After about a year, he decided to go back to school. When he was there, he found the “Holy Club” started by John and Charles