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"When George Whitefield stepped ashore in Savannah, Georgia, in May 1738, he had already preached to throngs in Bristol and London — preaching which ‘startled a nation’, as his biographer Dallimore put it. He came to Savannah in response to John Wesley’s plea for missionaries to Georgia, at which ‘my heart leaped within me’, Whitefield later said. His initial stay was brief, lasting only a few months. Yet it was long enough for him to have concluded: ‘America is not so horrid a place as it is rep"
<https://www.evangelical-times.org/george-whitefield-the-american-connection/>