...Jonathan Edwards preached his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." I can see him in my mind's eye in his pulpit, reading his sermon shortsightedly as he peered at the manuscript by candlelight. He must have been charged with passion. But his reedy, high-pitched voice would hardly qualify him as a dynamic preacher. It was the power of God, not erudition or eloquence, that gripped church members that night. The building rang with echoing cries of terrified listeners, men and women clutching the pillars of the building with all their strength, terrified that the floor would split, and their feet go slipping and sliding into hell.
John White, When The Spirit Comes With Power, p. 31.
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