Asahel Nettleton's Second Great Awakening

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Asahel Nettleton was a well known spiritual leader famous for his restoration work in American society and the Conversation Of Asahel Nettleton consists of his struggle to recognize God’s power and election. He spiritually became awake during the Second Great Awakening and started the restoration of indifferent eastern regions, his idea was to awaken a soul just like Siddhartha and stated that his motivation for preaching came from a sermon preaching as he asserted, “When I heard a sermon preached upon the necessity of regeneration, which put me upon thinking of the need of a change of heart in myself”. (Nettleton 1). This clearly describes his motivation for preaching came from a particular sermon who first awakened him for the concerns of