The First Great Awakening ( under Jonathan Edwards and others ) in the mid-18th century and the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century ( under Charles Grandison Finney, among others ) emphasized personal piety, revivals, and devotion to civic duty.

In 1831, Reverend Charles Grandison Finney began allowing women to pray aloud in gatherings of men and women.

He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady ( 1748 ) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison ( 1753 ).

Samuel Richardson reading aloud the manuscript of Sir Charles Grandison to a group of friends in 1751.

Near the end of 1751, Richardson sent a draft of the novel The History of Sir Charles Grandison to Mrs Donnellan, and the novel was being finalized in the middle of 1752.

The only major work that Richardson would write would be A Collection of the Moral and Instruction Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and Reflexions, contained in the Histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison.

* Charles Grandison Finney, ( 1792 – 1875 ), lived in Oberlin, minister of the gospel, professor and president of the Oberlin College ( 1851 – 1866 ).

* Jonathan Edwards and Charles Grandison Finney

* McLoughlin, William G. Modern Revivalism: Charles Grandison Finney to Billy Graham 1959.

Sir Charles Lucas and Lord Grandison rallied about 200 men, but when they tried to charge the Parliamentarian rear, they were distracted by fugitives from Charles Essex's routed brigade.

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.

The term was coined by Charles Grandison Finney who in his 1876 book Autobiography of Charles G. Finney referred to a " burnt district " to denote an area in central and western New York State during the Second Great Awakening.

* Charles Grandison Finney

In 1780, he became a regular contributor to the Novelist's Magazine, for which he produced 148 designs, including his eleven illustrations to Peregrine Pickle and his graceful subjects from Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison.

* Samuel Richardson-The History of Sir Charles Grandison

* Anonymous-Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa and Pamela

* Francis Plumer-A Candid Examination of the History of Sir Charles Grandison

* Samuel Richardson ( anonymously )-The Paths of Virtue Delineated, children's versions of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison

Charles Grandison Finney ( – ) was a leader in the Second Great Awakening.

Charles Grandison Finney and the New England theology ," Journal of the Early Republic, Spring 1997, Vol.

* Hardman, Keith J. Charles Grandison Finney, 1792-1875: Revivalist and Reformer ( 1987 ), a major scholarly biography

Calling Down Fire: Charles Grandison Finney and Revivalism in Jefferson County, New York, 1800-1840 ( 2005 )

A strong temperance advocate, through the influence of a favorite teacher, Charles Stewart, another Finney convert, he devoted himself to the anti-slavery cause.

* Charles Finney, Presbyterian, but anti-Calvinist

Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism.

In 1959 she appeared at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre under the direction of Peter Hall as Helena in A Midsummer's Night Dream opposite Charles Laughton as Bottom and Coriolanus opposite Laurence Olivier ( in the title role ), Albert Finney and Edith Evans.

Brown's father became a supporter of the Oberlin Institute ( original name of Oberlin College ) in its early stage, although he was ultimately critical of the school's " Perfectionist " leanings, especially renowned in the preaching and teaching of Charles Finney and Asa Mahan.

Charles " Buffalo " Jones, a co-founder of Garden City, was the first member of the Kansas House of Representatives from Finney County.

* Warren is the birthplace of Charles Finney.

The grounds of the Charles Finney School are adjacent to the grounds of Penfield High School as the building housing Finney housed the Penfield High School until it was moved to a newer structure during the 1960s.

" In the fall of 1835, Oberlin opened a new theology school with Asa Mahan as President, Charles Finney as Professor of theology, and the Lane Rebels among the first theology students.

John Ingersoll filled the pulpit for American revivalist Charles G. Finney while Finney was on a tour of Europe.

Many techniques of the Second and Third Great Awakenings were transposed from America to Korea, including the circuit-riding system of the Methodists, the Baptist farmer preachers, the campus revivals of the eastern seaboard, the camp meetings in the West, the new measures of Charles G. Finney, the Layman's Prayer Revival, urban mass revivalism of D. L. Moody, and the Student Volunteer Movement.

* Charles G. Finney – The Circus of Dr. Lao

Keith Green's initial tone of ministry was largely influenced by Leonard Ravenhill, who pointed Keith to Charles Finney, a nineteenth century revivalist preacher who preached the law of God to provoke conviction in his hearers.

The publication also later included the reprinted works of classic Christian authors such as Charles Finney, John Wesley, and William Booth and his wife Catherine.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

Carl was still Charles A. Sandburg.

He `` legitimized '' Paula for Lilian Steichen, and it was Paula who insisted on Carl for Charles.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

The country was now full of Gazettes and Samuel C. Atkinson and Charles Alexander, who had just taken over Franklin's old paper, desired a more distinctive name.

Somehow Dr. Charles Leale was forced through the mob and squeezed out into the dingy corridor.

So Charles was dead.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.

Charles Thiot, a splendid Georgia soldier, differed from most of his comrades in the ranks in that he was the owner of a large plantation, well-educated, and nearly fifty years of age.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.

So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.

The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.

Vincent G. Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E. Raymond, District Attorney.

The victim, Norman B. Wiley, 38, of the 900 block North Charles Street, was treated for cuts at Franklin Square Hospital after the robbery.

Charles Reynolds of Pumpkin Ridge was rabbit showmanship champion.

Anne said it wasn't surprising because Charles was antisocial, a lone wolf, and completely one-sided.