Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

By the fall of 1741, references to awakened youths had become so ubiquitous that revival proponents coined a pair of phrases to describe this distinctive cohort of church membership candidates. They called them “new converts” or “Young Christians.”