In this and other ways the Presbyterian schism fell out to the furtherance of the gospel.
In Virginia the quickening was as when the wind breathed in the valley of dry bones.

The story of Samuel Morris and his unconscious mission, although authentic fact, belongs with the very romance of evangelism.[173:1] Whitefield and "One-eyed Robinson," and at last Samuel Davies, came to his aid.

The deadly exclusiveness of the inert Virginia establishment was broken up, and the gospel had free course.
The Presbyterian Church, which had at first been looked on as an exotic sect that might be tolerated out on the western frontier, after a brief struggle with the Act of Uniformity maintained its right to live and struck vigorous root in the soil.

The effect of the Awakening was felt in the establishment itself.

Devereux Jarratt, a convert of the revival, went to England for ordination, and returned to labor for the resuscitation of the Episcopal Church in his native State.