Fellow Rotarian and club member Jim Hale was our breakfast speaker Thursday, on the topic of his fellow Christian minister Asahel Nettleton, who was a key figure in the early 19th-century Second Great Awakening. Jim is pastor of The Saratoga Chapel on East Line Road.
Nettleton, who was from Connecticut, came to Saratoga to rest and restore his health, but soon became active in ministry in the area, including in Malta in 1819-20. At that time, Jim said, there were many unchurched people in Malta, and then, as now, families grappled with problems such as gambling and alcohol abuse. "Something extraordinary happened here," he said, as a result of Nettleton's ministry.
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