The men God raised up to preach repentance and revival across two continents — from the camp meetings of the American frontier to the slums of Victorian London and the healing rooms of the early Pentecostal awakening.
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A practicing lawyer until his dramatic conversion in 1821, Finney became the central figure of the Second Great Awakening. His “new measures” reshaped American evangelism. He later served as president of Oberlin College.
The most famous evangelist of his age — a Chicago shoe-salesman turned preacher who, with singer Ira D. Sankey, drew enormous crowds across Britain and America. He founded the Moody Bible Institute.
An Irish-American Methodist revivalist whose campaigns in England and Canada earned him his royal nickname. The young William and Catherine Booth were deeply stirred by his ministry.
One of the most influential Baptist evangelists of the northern United States, known for blunt, fearless preaching. His meetings in Baltimore, Boston, and New York drew crowds so vast that civil protection was sometimes required.
Beginning as an independent Methodist evangelist, Booth carried the gospel into the poorest streets of London — founding the East London Christian Mission in 1865, renamed The Salvation Army in 1878. With his wife Catherine, he built a worldwide movement of evangelism and social rescue.
A working-class English coal-miner whose conversion turned him into one of the most magnetic evangelists of his day. His plain, passionate appeals to ordinary laboring people drew tens of thousands during the 1859–60 revival.
Weaver left no books of his own. His life, conversion, and sermons survive in a biography compiled by R. C. Morgan:
The Life of Richard Weaver, the Converted CollierInternet Archive · new tab Full Study Page — Richard WeaverDedicated biography · same tabA prominent English solicitor who left his profession to give himself to the gospel as a lay evangelist, leading bold open-air and public-hall revival meetings across the United Kingdom during and after the awakening of 1859.
Radcliffe published little under his own name. He is remembered chiefly through the memoir gathered by his wife, Jane Radcliffe:
Recollections of Reginald RadcliffeInternet Archive · new tab Full Study Page — Reginald RadcliffeDedicated biography · same tabAn uneducated Yorkshire plumber converted as a boy in a Wesleyan Methodist meeting, who began with the Salvation Army and became the most famous evangelist of the early Pentecostal movement. His worldwide healing ministry made his name a byword for bold, unwavering faith.
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