Sensational Evangelist of Britain and America

A decade after the first missionaries arrived, the gospel tore across the islands in the 1830s.

Methodist on horseback

In the West

During the Third Great Awakening of 1857 to 1859, 10,000 people in New York City alone gathered together daily—even left work—to pray. The same thing was taking place all over the country, in small towns as well as in great cities.

Both the North and the South read the same Scripture. What's going on here?

Puritanism Meets a New Age