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 all accounts, Whitefield failed to capture the hearts of his New England audiences a second time. Edwards acknowledged that Whitefield had preached as often as he had done in 1740 to “commonly great and crowded congregations” but without “such remarkable effects, in awakenings and reviving religion.”