Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

We are continuing our story of church history in the middle colony of Delaware.

Last week we looked at three moments in Delaware's colonial history.

All of them were from the 1600s. In this episode, we're moving

into the 1700s, and our fourth item of church history is about the Great Awakening, and it

involves the Reverend Charles Tennant. Charles Tennant is indeed part of that famous colonial

family of the tenants.

He is the son of William Tennant, Sr., who was the founder of Law College, which would eventually,

starting there in the Chamonie, Pennsylvania, cross the Delaware River, and eventually become Princeton.

Well, the tenants were from Ireland.

They immigrated. Charles was born there. He was born in Ireland in 1711. Of course, he came to the Pennsylvania colony with his family, and he too was a student of his father's log college.

And then around 1730, he went to Delaware.

He pastored until 1771.

He's a little bit lesser known than his more famous brother, Gilbert Tennant,

who preached his so-called Nottingham sermon,

the sermon entitled The dangersangers of an unconverted

ministry on March 8, 1740. It's also lesser known than his other brother, William Tennant, Jr., another

minister. There was a fourth brother, John Tennant, who was a minister briefly in New Jersey when he died at a very young age of 24.

And there was one sister, Eleanor.

But back to Charles. In 1730, he makes his way to Delaware, and he becomes the minister at the Presbyterian Church at Christiana Bridge. Then about seven years later, he moves just

a couple of miles to White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church. And in 1739, George Whitfield came

visiting. Of course, he knew of the tenants. He knew of Charles's father, and he knew of

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