Word: whitfields
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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...Vesper Service Thursday afternoon was fully as well attended as the first one last Thursday. The music was as follows: "I will lift up mine Eyes," by Dr. J. C. Whitfield, sung by the whole choir; Meyer's "The Lord is My Shepherd," and "Lo! I am with You," by the Ruggles Street Quartet...
Fifty years later came another contest resulting in a new enlargement. In 1736 there was a "great awakening" in Northampton, where Johnathan Edwards was preaching. In 1740 George Whitfield came like a great wind of God across the land. The college life was stirred. The sober souls grew fearful of enthusiasm. President Holyoke preached against Pharisaism. And Dr. Wigglesworth, the Hollis professor, wrote a strong letter to the great evangelist, protesting against his aspersions on the college piety. It is not necessary to take sides in the old dear dispute. Certainly it is not necessary for us to praise...
...Puritans, in which the discipline of the Puritans had floated as the part floats in the whole. The discipline of the Puritans felt that which was pressed on was tempted by it, and at last broke open in the attempt to find it. Experience was larger than Whitfield. Dogma was larger than Henry Calvin; life was larger than theology, and so, one after another, in these which are the concentric spheres within which human nature lives, the successive opening of the partial into the universal and the temporary with the eternal, came. Not less, but more mysterious, and religious...