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Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

On this episode, we are going back to October 1740 to a very packed week in that month.

The week starts in the home of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards,

and in his church there at Northampton, and they have a very special guest.

George Whitfield is there, and we have an account of his time.

Sarah wrote a letter to her brother James, and in it she writes,

I have seen upwards of a thousand people hang on his words with breathless silence,

broken only by an occasional half-suppressed sob.

Sarah Edwards continues, he impresses the ignorant and not less,

the educated and refined.

It is reported that while the miners of England listen to him,

the tears made white furrows down their smuddy cheeks.

So here are mechanics, shut up their shops,

and the day labors throw down their tools to go and hear him preach

and a few return unaffected.

Well, one of those labors is Nathan Cole.

Whitfield left the Edwards home and along side of Jonathan Edwards,

road horseback down to East Windsor, where Edwards grew up into his parents' home.

They spent some time there, and then Edwards bid adieu to his friend,

and he went back home, and Whitfield went on to Middletown, Connecticut,

about 30 miles south of East Windsor right along the Connecticut River.

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