 But with the preaching of George Whitefield, they were seen as with remorse, and became so zealous for Christ's cause as to devote themselves entirely to studies of divinity. And he goes on to say, Sam Adams never forgot those stirring days during the Great Awakening, when George Whitefield thundered in the pulpit against assemblies and balls, and New Englanders seemed to turn the clock back to the time of Winthrop and Cotton,