First Freedom: The Fight for Religious Liberty Page #2
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to quiet her
or drive her from the colony.
Mitchell:
The rampant prejudicebehind Anne hutchinson's trial
lasted throughout
the 17th century
in Massachusetts.
More than a half century
later in 1692,
over 150 people were arrested
One woman was accused
Another was convicted
after testimony
from her daughter,
who was 4 years old.
It was primitive,
barbaric, and sad.
In the end, 20 people
were put to death.
Mitchell:
The puritansestablished stable
and quite Democratic communities
in an untamed wilderness.
The flaw
in the puritan experiment
was the inability
but democracy in the 1600s
seldom extended to faith.
It would take a revolution.
Some 8 years after the puritans
came to Massachusetts,
to change shape.
The new world was now
a more secular beacon.
It was the place to look
for a better life.
Religion for many new
arrivals was secondary.
The church became
the stepchild of government,
not the master,
and clergymen themselves
Some seemed to be
in it for the money.
Many had run dry
of inspiration.
The services were not
all that interesting to people.
In many cases they were long,
they were oriented
towards doctrine,
often read from manuscript.
Whitefield changed all that.
He only had about
8 sermons, I think, you know,
and he went up and down
the seaboard,
but he was charismatic.
Bonomi:
He was a phenomenon.He was sort of
you might say.
Mitchell:
One day in 1740,a fevered crowd
of tens of thousands
gathered before the steps
of the Philadelphia courthouse.
They'd come not in rebellion
but in ecstasy
to hear the passionate,
energetic,
and theatrical
George whitefield.
The son of an innkeeper,
whitefield had worked
his way through Oxford
as a servant.
By 1740, he was already
the most famous religious
figure of the day.
He toured America,
to huge crowds.
Bonomi:
He preachedout in the open,
he didn't have to be
inside a church.
He preached in the fields.
He preached
in Philadelphia
in the center
of the street apparently.
Whitefield was a radical
in certain ways
in denouncing
conventional faith.
Holmes:
His messagewas that God cared
even for the poor,
for the Indians,
for the blacks,
as well as for the wealthy.
Narrator at the end
of his sermons,
whitefield would boom out his
universal invitation,
"come poor, lost,
undone sinner,
come just as you are to Christ."
If religion didn't
cut deeply,
if it didn't move
people powerfully,
then it was no good,
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