The Second Great Awakening, which was a religious movement that based its actions on education and moral redemption, influenced the start of the Society.
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As a result, his biography has become a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians, including missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829).
Charles Grandison Finney, revivalist of the Second Great Awakening, attended a Baptist church in town with his family
Asahel Nettleton (1783-1844), an American theologian and pastor, an evangelist in the Second Great Awakening