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hes family and him moved to New York State, living in the central and western regions.
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was born in Warren, Connecticut to a New England family.
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Sometime between 1794 and 1800, hes family moved to Henderson near Lake Ontario and I spent most of my adolescence there.
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When he was a young man, he decided to move to Adams, New York in order to search for a direction in he's life, for something he wanted to do.
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he began an internship under lawyer Benjamin Wright in order to study law.
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he joined my local Presbyterian Church, led by Reverend George W. Gale, and discovered he was surprisingly good at playing the cello and leading the choir. he always thought he was more of a pianist. At this time he decided the he needed to settle the question on what would happen to his soul and salvation.
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One day in Autumn, he happened to be taking a stroll through the woods when he felt the strangest warmth, the strangest sensation come over him. he felt like he was filled with gods love, and he knew what he had to do. It was a dramatic experience, and he was immediately converted to the ways of the lord.
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The next day, he resigned from Mr. Wright's Law Firm and he went to find his place as a servant of God.
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St. Lawrence Presbytery took him under their care and helped him on he's path to preach the ways of the lord and become a pastor.
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The Female Missionary Society of Western New York commissioned him as a missionary.
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he married hes first wife Lydia Andrews in 1824.
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Lydia and he were making our journey to Whitestown to visit her parents, when they stopped and stayed for a while in Western, NY to visit hes old friend and pastor Gale. He asked me to preach, and when he obliged him, crowds came to see him, astounded and seeking salvation and ways to convert. he again did the same in Utica and Rome, NY and more and more people came to see him. Nobody had paid him much mind before, but now he had a real following and supporters.
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A meeting was held to decide whether hes New Measures were okay and ethical. him, of course, came out more popular and still alowed to be a pastor, because that's what he does. he won.
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Between 1830 and 1831, he was an extremely popular pastor in Rochester, NY. The whole city came to my sermons, the shopkeepers even closing down and encouraging patrons to come listen to me speak.
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Starting in the 1830s, I refused to let slaveholders take communion in any of hes churches. he believe slavery is immoral and outlawed by God himself.
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he was offered a pastorate at Chatham Street Chapel in NYC and he was gladly accepted. he made several lectures that he had transcribed and published as "Lectures on Revivals of Religion". The book admittedly caused some controversy (as well as making me more famous) and he was eventually condemned by members of hes own congregation. So, he left, and formed the New School Presbyterian Congregation.
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A few of hes close, wonderful friends helped him build hes own church, known as the Broadway Tabernacle, designed specifically for him to preach in. It was somewhere he could be safe to say what he wanted to say and do what he wanted to do.
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Later in the year, he moved to Ohio to teach at Oberlin college
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Anti-slavery had been a part of hes teachings and principles since the 1830s.I grew to be friends with two very wealthy brothers, the Tappans, and they paid for hes family to move to Ohio to teach at Oberlin.he began to write for the Oberlin Evangelist, and grew increasingly more involved in social movements. he linked many antislavery circles and turned people over to the way of the lord, condemning slavery. Oberlin even became a stop on the Underground Railroad, and the scene of a slave rescue
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For 15 years he served as the president of Oberlin College, teaching theology, and writing in opposition of freemasonry.
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In 1868, he was encouraged by hes friends to start writing a memoir of my revivals, a sort of autobiography. he quickly began work on them.
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After a lifetime of servitude to God and spreading His love, he died peacefully. hes legacy as an abolitionist and revivalist still lives on to this day.