part ii., p. 243.

351 – Ibid.

352 – Mr. Davies kept a diary, from which the following extract is made:――“Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1753. Mr. Whitefield having sent us an invitation to make his house our home during our stay here, we were perplexed what to do, lest we should blast the success of our mission among the Dissenters, who are generally disaffected to him. We at length concluded, with the advice of our friends and his, that a public intercourse with him would be imprudent in our present situation; and we visited him privately this evening. The kind reception he gave us revived dear Mr. Tennent. He spoke in the most encouraging manner of the success of our mission, and, in all his conversations, discovered so much zeal and candour, that I could not but admire the man as the wonder of the age. When we returned, Mr. Tennent’s heart was all on fire, and, after we had gone to bed, he suggested that we should watch and pray; and we arose and prayed together till about three in the morning.” (Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield,” p. 258.)

353 – According to the “_old style_,” Whitefield was born on December 16th. In 1751, an Act of Parliament was passed for the adoption of the “_new style_” in all public and legal transactions; and ordered that the day following the 2nd of September of the year 1752 should be accounted the 14th of that month. This explains the seeming discrepancy in Whitefield’s letter.

354 – Gillies says, Whitefield took twenty-two destitute children with him.

355 – Vol. xii., p. 479.

356 – No doubt, New Jersey College had legal authority to confer the degree: but, under the circumstances then existing, the degree was worthless. The first time that M.A. was attached to Whitefield’s name in England was in 1763. This was done in his “Observations” on the Bishop of Gloucester’s book; but it is right to add that the pamphlet was printed by Whitefield’s friends, _after_ he had embarked for America.

357 – The Rev. Aaron Burr, President of New Jersey College.

358 – “Account of European Settlements in America, 1778,” vol. ii., p. 270.

359 – _London Magazine_, 1754, p. 381.

360 – Sir William Pepperell, the Cape Breton hero.

361 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 419.

362 – “Life of Charles Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 67.

363 – A charter to found a college was granted by the Governor of New Jersey on October 22, 1746, and Mr. Dickinson was appointed president. Dickinson, however, died a year afterwards, and before the charter was carried into operation. Besides this, the provisions of the charter were not liked; and hence, in 1748, Governor Belcher obtained a new one from George II., Burr was chosen president, a commencement was made, six students graduated, five of whom became ministers. (Hodge’s Presbyterian Church in the United States.)

364 – Burr had married one of Edwards’s daughters.

365 – A fast-day sermon, on the encroachments of the French, published in 1755.

366 – Mr. Burr died three years after this. One of his two children became vice-president of the United States.

367 – The publication of these letters has been already noticed.

368 – Mrs. Bevan was the widow of Arthur Bevan, Esq., who, for fourteen years, represented Carmarthen in Parliament. She was converted under the ministry of the famous Griffith Jones. For twenty years after his death, she supported his schools in Wales, and in her will left £10,000 to perpetuate their good effects. She was an elegant and accomplished woman; and, at every visit, Whitefield was wont to preach in her house at Bath. (“Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 454.)

369 – Ibid., p. 195.

370 – Cennick died exactly a week before this letter was written.

371 – “Memoirs of Rev. Cornelius Winter.” By William Jay.

372 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., pp. 336, 337.

373 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 132.

374 – Ibid., p. 136.

375 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 344.

376 – “The Oxford Methodists,” p. 290.

377 – This was afterwards published, with the following title: “An Epistle to the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield: written in the year 1755. By Charles Wesley, A.M., late student of Christ Church, Oxford. London, 1771.” (8vo. 8 pp.)

378 – The place at Bradford where Whitefield preached was “in an open part of the town, near the water-side. His texts were, John iii. 14, and 1 John iii. 8.” (“Memoirs of John Fawcett, D.D.,” pp. 15–17.)

379 – There had been a schism among the Leeds Methodists. A considerable number had seceded; John Edwards had formed them into a separate Society; and, probably, the meeting-house Whitefield mentions was intended for Edwards and his congregation. Wesley’s first chapel in Leeds was built two years afterwards, in St. Peter’s Street.

380 – Wesley’s Societies. Except the Societies formed by Ingham and his friends in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, none others existed in the north of England.

381 – The Long Acre chapel does not now exist. In Charles Street, a few yards from Long Acre, there is a building called “Whitefield’s Presbyterian Church;” but its minister, the Rev. C. J. Whitmore, tells me it is not the chapel in which Whitefield preached.

382 – Wilson’s “Dissenting Churches in London,” vol. iii., p. 365.

383 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 166.

384 – A popular, and also persecuted preacher, who had died forty-three years before. He was the son of a clergyman, ejected for nonconformity in 1662. In 1709, Dr. Sacheverell’s mob attacked Daniel’s meeting-house, in New Court, Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, broke all the windows, and burnt the pulpit and all the pews. His sermons, like Whitefield’s, contained many pertinent and useful stories.

385 – On the earthquake at Lisbon.

386 – “Letters from Dr. Thomas Herring.” (12mo. pp. 355.)

387 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 16.

388 – _London Magazine_, 1756, p. 89.

389 – See a pamphlet, entitled “A Brief View of the Conduct of Pennsylvania for the Year 1755.”

390 – Even the _Monthly Review_――no friend to Whitefield――in its number for March, 1756, wrote concerning Whitefield’s “Short Address”: “Mr. Whitefield here makes good use of the influence he has acquired over the common people, by endeavouring to animate them, at this critical juncture, with a lively sense of the duty they owe to their God, their king, and their country. It is with sincere pleasure we find that this seasonable exhortation has had so considerable a spread as to occasion a demand for three editions; the first of which did not appear till after the late general fast.”

391 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 158.

392 – _Gospel Magazine_, 1831, p. 563.

393 – The almshouses and the minister’s house do not now exist. In “Whitefield Street,” and annexed to the chapel, a commodious Day and Sunday school has been built. In one of the chapel vestries there is a large original portrait of Whitefield, without, however, the painter’s name. The likeness is not a pleasing one. On each side of the chapel is a burial ground, now closed.

394 – MS. Letter by John Pawson.

395 – “Centenary Commemoration of the Opening of Tottenham Court Chapel,” p. 5.

396 – _New Spiritual Magazine_, 1783, p. 20.

397 – _Home Missionary Magazine_, 1827, p. 35.

398 – Its name is “Whitefield Tabernacle,” and connected with it are “Whitefield Tabernacle Schools,” for boys, girls, and infants.

399 – Wilson’s “Dissenting Churches,” vol. iii., p. 118.

400 – Sydney’s “Life of Rev. Samuel Walker,” p. 329.

401 – Ibid., p. 436.

402 – _St. James’s Chronicle_, March 16, 1768.

403 – Doubtless, Whitefield’s “Short Address to Persons of all Denominations.”

404 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1803, p. 51.

405 – The following is taken from the _London Magazine_ for 1756, p. 402:――“August. At Maidstone late assizes, Mr. John Lauder, an officer in a regiment of foot, was tried for killing, with his sword, in the heat of passion and liquor, William Forster, a post-boy. Mr. Lauder behaved very decently at his execution.”

406 – Whitefield’s old friend, Benjamin Ingham, was now resident at Aberford, about five miles from Tadcaster. (“The Oxford Methodists,” p. 139.)

407 – One of Whitefield’s texts was, “Wherefore, glorify ye the Lord in the fires” (Isa. xxv. 14), in illustrating which he was wont to say: “When I was, some years ago, at Shields, I went into a glass-house, and saw a workman take a piece of glass, and put it into three furnaces in succession. I asked, ‘Why do you put it into so many fires?’ He answered, ‘Oh, sir, the first was not hot enough, nor the second, and therefore we put it into the third; that will make it transparent.’ ‘Oh,’ thought I, ‘does this man put this glass into one furnace after another, that it may be made perfect? Then, O my God! put me into one furnace after another, that my soul may be transparent!’” (Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 370.)

408 – “Memoirs of John Fawcett, D.D.,” p. 19.

409 – _Methodist Magazine_, 1819, p. 56.

410 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 190.

411 – C. Wesley’s Journal.

412 – Vol. i., p. 266.

413 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 191.

414 – “Life of Rev. Henry Venn,” p. 24.

415 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. v., p. 275.

416 – This is hardly correct. Whitefield and the Wesleys administered the sacraments, in London, Bristol, and other places. Their unordained preachers, however, were not allowed to do this until many a long year afterwards.

417 – Meaning the Methodist clergymen.

418 – “Life of Garrick,” by Fitzgerald.

419 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 208.

420 – “Memoirs of Cornelius Winter,” p. 26.

421 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., pp. 207, 208.

422 – _Scots’ Magazine_, 1757, p. 260.

423 – “Annals of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, from 1739 to 1766,” vol. ii., p. 373.

424 – “Annals of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, from 1739 to 1766,” vol. ii., p. 394.

425 – Ibid., p. 102.

426 – _Scots’ Magazine_, 1757, p. 260.

427 – Thomas Rankin’s MS. Journal.

428 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 154.

429 – Ibid., p. 158.

430 – The “Ormond Boys” were in favour of the popish pretender, and were so designated after the arch-traitor, the Duke of Ormond. The “Liberty Boys,” of course, were their opponents.

431 – Frederick, King of Prussia, was rendering England important service; for while the English were fighting the French in America, he was fighting and conquering them in Europe. “The wonderful battle of Rossbach,” says Voltaire, “was the most inconceivable and complete rout mentioned in history. Thirty thousand French and twenty thousand Imperial troops there made a disgraceful precipitate flight before five Prussian batallions and a few squadrons.” In England, Frederick was styled the “Protestant hero;” his birthday was kept as a holiday; public subscriptions were proposed for him; and Parliament granted him a subsidy of £670,000 per annum to enable him to prosecute the war.

432 – Christopher Hopper was now one of Wesley’s preachers in Dublin. In his autobiography, Christopher is silent respecting Whitefield’s perilous adventure.

433 – Most of Whitefield’s biographers, and some writers of the History of Methodism, say John Edwards, of Leeds, was converted under Whitefield’s sermon on Oxmanton Green. This is an egregious blunder. John Edwards was converted, and was himself a Methodist preacher, many a long year before this. As a rule, I refrain from noticing the errors of previous biographers.――L. T.

434 – Whitefield was strongly urged to visit America. In an hitherto unpublished letter, by the Rev. James Davenport, dated, “Hopewell, January 17, 1757,” the writer says: “Pray come to see our dear America once more, as soon as you can. You cannot tell what God might do at this juncture. Many, no doubt, would rejoice greatly. Oh, my dear brother, that there were a heart in our land, under our present dangers and distresses, to turn to God! Then we might, in the Lord’s strength, soon drive out our temporal enemies, and come off more than conquerors over our spiritual ones. I hope you remember our agreement to pray for each other, in secret, every Sabbath morning. Oh, how sweet are the thoughts of heaven, where we may converse, and rejoice, and praise, and enjoy and glorify God, our Father, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, without any stop, world without end. My soul joins with yours in saying, ‘Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly! Amen!’”

435 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 428.

436 – Dr. Talbot, in 1767, became vicar of St. Giles’s, Reading. He was an able preacher, and remarkable for the gift of prayer. When Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, was dying, Talbot visited him. “You will pray with me, Talbot,” said Secker. Talbot rose and went to look for a Prayer-Book. “That is not what I want now,” remarked the Archbishop: “kneel down by me, and pray for me in the way I know you are used to do.” Dr. Talbot died, on the 2nd of March, 1774, in the 57th year of his age, in the house of his friend, the great philanthropist, William Wilberforce. (_Evangelical Magazine_, 1815, pp. 393–400.)

437 – Lord Dartmouth succeeded to the earldom in 1750, being then about twenty-five years of age. In 1755, he married the only daughter and heiress of Sir Charles Gunter Nicholl. Shortly after his marriage, he became the intimate friend of Lady Huntingdon, to whom he was introduced by the Countess of Guildford. It was in Lady Huntingdon’s house, that he first became acquainted with Whitefield, the Wesleys, Romaine, Jones, Madan, etc. George the Third appointed him principal Secretary of State for the American department, which office his lordship afterwards exchanged for that of Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. Some years later, he was made Lord Steward of His Majesty’s Household. He contributed largely towards Whitefield’s Orphan House. He was the early patron of the Rev. Moses Browne; obtained ordination for the Rev. John Newton; and was celebrated by Cowper, in his poem on Truth:――

“We boast some rich ones whom the gospel sways, And one who wears a coronet and prays.”

438 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1815, p. 394.

439 – Ibid., p. 395.

440 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 431.

441 – Fletcher, of Madeley, was ordained in 1757.

442 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., pp. 220, 221.

443 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 219.

444 – Miss Gideon was the daughter of Sampson Gideon, Esq., of Belvidere House, Kent, and sister of the first Lord Eardley. She was converted in the drawing-room of Lady Huntingdon. (“Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 3.)

445 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 232.

446 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 228.

447 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1803, p. 333.

448 – “Memoirs of Robert Robinson,” p. 25.

449 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1803, p. 535.

450 – _Scots’ Magazine_, 1758, p. 388.

451 – _Scots’ Magazine_, 1758, p. 609.

452 – There can be little doubt that this was Wesley’s chapel, in St. Peter’s Street. It was built in 1757.

453 – The _Daily Advertiser_, of October 27, 1758, says: “We hear that, for this month past, the Rev. Mr. Whitefield has been preaching twice a day, to very large audiences, in various parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Staffordshire, and is expected in town this week.” The same journal, on the following day, announced, “On Thursday evening (October 26), the Rev. Mr. Whitefield came to town, from Scotland and the north of England; and will preach to-morrow at Tottenham Court chapel, and at the Tabernacle in Moorfields.”

454 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., pp. 246–250.

455 – _New Spiritual Magazine_, 1783, p. 164.

456 – Wesley’s Journal.

457 – C. Wesley’s Journal, vol. ii., p. 219.

458 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 307.

459 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 314.

460 – _Scots’ Magazine_, 1759, p. 378.

461 – Ibid.

462 – Cadogan’s “Life of Rev. W. Romaine,” p. 37.

463 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”

464 – Calamy’s “Nonconformist’s Memorial,” vol. i., p. 237.

465 – Free’s edition of Wesley’s Second Letter.

466 – See “Life and Times of Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 343.

467 – Whitefield’s text, at Tottenham Court Road, was Hosea xi. 8, 9; and the collection £222 8s. 9d. At the Tabernacle, his text was Psalm lxxx. 19; and the collection £182 15s. 9d. (Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”) The Rev. John Newton stated, that, at one of these services, after the sermon, Whitefield said, “We shall sing a hymn, during which those who do not choose to give their mite may sneak off.” None of the congregation stirred. Whitefield ordered all the doors to be shut but one; at which he himself held the plate. (“Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 92.)

468 – C. Wesley’s Journal, vol. ii., p. 235.

469 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 408.

470 – Lady Huntingdon also was now in Yorkshire. Whitefield joined her, at Ingham’s, at Aberford. Great confusion prevailed in Ingham’s Societies. The Countess and Whitefield tried to restore peace; but their efforts were ineffectual. Sandemanianism produced a schism. Out of eighty flourishing Societies, only thirteen continued under Ingham’s care. (“Oxford Methodists,” p. 145.)

471 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., pp. 260–263.

472 – Cook’s “Memoirs of Foote;” and “Biographica Dramatica.”

473 – Boswell’s “Life of Johnson.”

474 – The Duke of Devonshire was Lord Chamberlain.

475 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, July 14, 1760.

476 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 209.

477 – _Monthly Review_, July, 1760.

478 – Ibid., August, 1760.

479 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, Nov. 24, 1760.

480 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 209.

481 – Madan did not attach his name to his letter, but signed it, “Anti-Profanus.”

482 – It might be added, that portraits――hideous ones――of Whitefield were published, with the offensive words “Dr. Squintum” underneath them. One lies before me.

483 – _Monthly Review_, November, 1761.

484 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”

485 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”

486 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 210.

At and about this period, Whitefield made several other collections for the suffering Protestants in Germany, the aggregate amount of which was upwards of £1500. For this, he received the thanks of the King of Prussia, Frederick the Great. (“Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 209.) The freeholders of Boston, also, held a meeting, at which they passed a vote of thanks to Whitefield for the assistance he had rendered them. (Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”)

487 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, March 27, 1760.

488 – Wesley’s Works, vol. xii., p. 177.

489 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”

490 – _Monthly Review_, March, 1762.

491 – Thomas Adams, to whom Whitefield, in his last will and testament, bequeathed £50, and whom he therein described as, “my only surviving first fellow-labourer, and beloved much in the Lord.”

492 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 281.

493 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 281.

494 – _Gospel Magazine_, 1771, p. 65.

495 – _Wesleyan Protestant Methodist Magazine_, 1831, p. 29.

496 – Query? Mr. Beckman, on whose death, Whitefield subsequently preached a sermon. (See Eighteen Sermons, by Whitefield, taken in shorthand by Joseph Gurney, 1771.)

497 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1796, p. 518.

Mr. West’s residence was in Southampton Place, but he died in the house of his old friend Whitefield, adjoining the Tabernacle, in Moorfields. For thirteen years, his sufferings were terrible; but his patience and cheerfulness were surprising to all who knew him. A few days before his death, he became very ill while attending service in the Tabernacle. The doctor would not permit him to be removed to his own house, as it was probable the removal would issue in his death. To the minister of the Tabernacle, he said, “Christ is kind to me. I long for my dissolution. O! my dear boy, preach, preach Christ to the people! Never spare them. Be faithful to them; and think of the worth of a precious soul. Go on, and never be tired.” Mr. West was interred under the communion table of Tottenham Court Road chapel, in a vault containing the remains of Whitefield’s wife, also of his own wife, and of Mr. Keen, his “trusty” colleague. It is worth mentioning that Whitefield and West died on the same day of the year, the 30th of September, and that they and Keen all died on the same day of the month. (_Evangelical Magazine_, 1796, pp. 518–21.)

498 – Eighteen Sermons, by Whitefield, transcribed by Gurney, p. 44.

499 – Ibid., p. 75.

500 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 406.

501 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 286.

502 – Eighteen Sermons, by Whitefield, p. 24.

503 – MS.

504 – Whitefield’s pamphlet had an enormous circulation. At least, six editions were issued in 1763.

505 – In 1739.

506 – Wesley’s Journal.

507 – Soon after his embarkation, it was reported that Whitefield was dead. (_Lloyd’s Evening Post_, September 26, 1763.)

508 – Lady Selina Hastings, who died of fever, on May 12, 1763.

509 – “Life of C. Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 221.

510 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, April 16, 1764.

511 – Bancroft’s “History of the United States.”

512 – For enlarged views, indomitable energy, and arduous toils, and for the great results of his labours in the cause of religion and learning, Dr. Wheelock had few superiors. For forty-five years, he was one of the most eloquent and successful ministers in New England. He conducted his Indian Mission School until his death, in 1779.

513 – “Lady Huntingdon and her Friends,” p. 151.

514 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 310.

515 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 311.

516 – Ibid., p. 313.

517 – These, probably, were a supply of his own “Collection of Hymns,” the twelfth edition of which was this year published: 16mo., 182 pp.

518 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 315.

519 – Whitefield’s catholicity of spirit won him friendships almost everywhere. On one occasion, when preaching from the balcony of the Courthouse, in Philadelphia, in an apostrophe, he exclaimed, “‘Father Abraham, who have you in heaven? any Episcopalians?’ ‘No.’ ‘Any Presbyterians?’ ‘No.’ ‘Any Baptists?’ ‘No.’ ‘Any Methodists, Seceders, or Independents?’ ‘No, no!’ ‘Why, who have you there?’ ‘We don’t know those names here. All who are here are Christians.’ ‘Oh, is that the case? Then, God help me! and God help us all to forget party names, and to become Christians in deed and truth.’” (Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 207.)

520 – _Arminian Magazine_, 1782, p. 440.

521 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 317.

522 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, April 10, 1765.

523 – Thomas Adams, one of Whitefield’s helpers, when he was moderator of the Calvinistic Methodists, but now the founder and pastor of the Tabernacle at Rodborough, in the county of Gloucester. (“Bristol Tabernacle Centenary Services,” p. 90.)

524 – Notwithstanding Whitefield’s long absence, and the recentness of his return, she had been a fortnight in the country! (Whitefield’s Works vol. iii., p. 330.)

525 – Messrs. Collet and Ireland were the chief men in the Bristol Tabernacle. (“Memoirs of Cornelius Winter,” p. 148.)

526 – The Hon. and Rev. Walter Shirley, brother of the notorious Earl Ferrers, and a first cousin of the Countess of Huntingdon. He had been converted under the ministry of Venn, and was now an evangelical and earnest minister of Christ.

527 – The Rev. Joseph Townsend, son of the celebrated Alderman Townsend, of London, and fellow of Clare Hall; Cambridge, and rector of Pewsey, in Wiltshire. He also heartily co-operated with the Methodist clergymen of the day.

528 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 468.

529 – “The chapel,” wrote Horace Walpole, “is very neat, with true Gothic windows.” (“Life and Times of Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 558.)

530 – Wesley’s Journal.

531 – Wesley’s Journal.

532 – “Memoirs of C. Winter,” p. 63.

533 – On this occasion, the Earl and Countess of Sutherland were among Whitefield’s hearers. Immediately after, the Earl was attacked with a putrid fever. For twenty-one nights and days, without intermission or retiring to rest, the Countess watched over her noble husband. She then sunk and died, the Earl himself dying seventeen days afterwards. The Earl of Sutherland was in his thirty-first, and his Countess in her twenty-fifth year. They left behind them an infant daughter, who succeeded her father in the honours of Sutherland, and married the Marquis of Stafford. She died in 1839. (“Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 473.)

534 – Old Newspaper.

535 – This Indian school was ultimately merged in Dartmouth College, of which Wheelock was the first president.

536 – Brown’s “History of Missions,” vol. iii., p. 481.

537 – It is said, that the first Sunday school in the United States was founded in the house of Occum’s sister, a few months after his death. (Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 387.)

538 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 375.

After the death of Mr. Powys, in 1775, his widow became the second wife of Sir Rowland Hill, of Hawkeston, Bart.

539 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 338.

540 – Wesley’s Works, vol. iii., p. 250.

541 – Charles Wesley’s Journal, vol. ii., p. 247.

542 – Charles Wesley’s Journal, vol. ii., p. 249.

543 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 476.

544 – “Life of John Fawcett, D.D.,” p. 36.

545 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1810, p. 351.

546 – _Methodist Magazine_, 1808, p. 376.

547 – “Mr. Whitefield,” says Fletcher, “was not a flighty orator, but spoke the words of soberness and truth, with divine pathos, and floods of tears declarative of his sincerity.” (Fletcher’s Works, vol. i., p. 298.)

548 – Another Methodist clergyman, who, afterwards, resided at West Bromwich. “He is,” said Henry Venn, “a very excellent man, and seems appointed to evangelise the _Wolds_, the inhabitants of which are dark almost as the heathens.” (“Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 41; and Wesley’s Works, vol. iii., p. 161.)

549 – The famous Methodist clergyman, in Wales.

550 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1797, pp. 397–407.

A small monument, in memory of Torial Joss, exists at Tottenham Court Road chapel; but, strangely enough, it is placed in one of the vestries, and, therefore, scarcely ever seen.

551 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 214.

552 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1815, p. 272.

553 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., pp. 317–319.

554 – “Life of Rev. Rowland Hill,” p. 25.

555 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 378.

556 – The volumes were published in numbers. Hence the following advertisement, taken from an old newspaper: “This day is published, recommended by the Rev. Mr. G. Whitefield, Number I., containing five sheets, and a head of the author, price only sixpence, of a new and beautiful edition of the works of Mr. John Bunyan, the whole to be comprised in eighty-four numbers. Those who incline to take the work in complete sets, may subscribe for the same, paying one guinea at the time of subscribing, and the remainder on the delivery of the two volumes; and those who subscribe for six sets shall have a seventh gratis.”

557 – Mr. Green was one of Whitefield’s occasional assistants, but subsisted by teaching a school. (“Winter’s Memoirs,” p. 45.)

558 – “Winter’s Memoirs,” p. 68.

559 – “Winter’s Memoirs,” p. 75.

560 – “Winter’s Memoirs,” p. 21.

561 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 344.

562 – Ibid.

563 – Wesley’s Journal.

564 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 379.

565 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 344; and “Life of Rev. Rowland Hill,” p. 29.

566 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 158.

567 – This was Whit-Sunday. The following is from _Lloyd’s Evening Post_ of June 15, 1767: “They write from Haverfordwest that, on Whit-Sunday, about eight in the morning, the Rev. Mr. Whitefield’s congregation consisted of upwards of ten thousand people.” The ensuing extracts are taken from the archives of the Moravian Church at Haverfordwest:――

“1767. May 31. Many people flocked from the country to hear Mr. Whitefield preach. At the conclusion of his sermon, at eight in the morning, he bid the people go to any place of worship where Christ alone is preached. Numbers hastened to our chapel, and crowded it; and Brother Nyberg preached to them on, ‘We preach Christ crucified.’ Our dear Saviour was in our midst.

“June 7 (Whit-Sunday). Such a crowd came from hearing Mr. Whitefield, that we were obliged, as on Sunday last, to drop our morning meeting; and Brother Nyberg prayed the Litany in the pulpit, and preached on, ‘He shall testify of me: and ye also shall bear witness.’ A still greater number attended the afternoon preaching, when Brother Parminster discoursed on Proverbs i. 20–24. Amongst the hearers were four Methodist preachers.”

568 – The Rev. John Newton, who, after many rebuffs, had three years before obtained ordination, and was now curate at Olney.

569 – The reference here is probably to the Society of Students just mentioned, and of which Rowland Hill was the _leader_. (“Life of Rev. Rowland Hill,” p. 26.)

570 – As will soon be seen, there was, at this time, a Society of Methodist Students at Oxford, similar to the Society at Cambridge.

571 – “Life of Rev. Rowland Hill,” p. 29.

572 – Dr. Hodge’s “History of the Presbyterian Church in America,” pt. ii., p. 395.

♦573 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, May 4, 1758.

574 – The “intended buildings” were thirty-two small dwellings for the students, sixteen on each side of the Orphan House. Also two residences for tutors, a kitchen, and a laundry.

575 – The Rev. Mr. Zububuhler was the rector of Savannah. (“Memoirs of Rev. Cornelius Winter,” p. 109.)

576 – Whitefield subjoins a note to this, saying, “This college was originally built, above twenty-eight years ago, for a charity school, and preaching place for me, and ministers of various denominations, on the bottom of the doctrinal articles of the Church of England.”

577 – Rowland Hill had called at Oxford, on his way home, and had a profitable meeting with the Methodist students there. (“Life of Rev. R. Hill,” p. 31.)

578 – “Life of Rev. R. Hill,” p. 32.

579 – Thomas Pentycross, who soon after became an earnest and useful clergyman of the Church of England.

580 – This was threatened in the case of one of Rowland Hill’s college friends. (“Life of Rev. R. Hill,” p. 34).

581 – “Life of Rev. R. Hill,” p. 34.

582 – Wesley’s Journal.

583 – “Rod for a Reviler. By Thomas Olivers, 1777,” p. 58.

584 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 352.

585 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 299.

586 – Ibid., vol. i., p. 291.

587 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, September 21, 1767.

588 – The Rev. Richard Conyers, LL.D., vicar of Helmsley, another earnest Methodist clergyman.

589 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 356; and “Life and Times of Countess of Huntington,” vol. i., p. 299; and “Life of Rev. Henry Venn,” p. 134.

590 – Wesley’s Works, vol. xii., p. 253.

591 – A foot-note, in Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 360, says the collection amounted to £105 13s.

592 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”

593 – MS. Letter.

594 – Afterwards ennobled as Baron Erskine and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.

595 – Doubtless by Whitefield himself.

596 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 18.

597 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield,” p. 122.

598 – Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 415.

599 – “Brief Account of Howell Harris, Esq., 1791,” p. 95; and Morgan’s “Life and Times of H. Harris,” p. 243.

600 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., pp. 78–81.

601 – March 25, 1768.

602 – This was absolutely false. (_Lloyd’s Evening Post_, March 30, 1768.)

603 – A letter, in _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, March 30, 1768, says it was “utterly false.”

604 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 425.

605 – “Boswell’s Life of Johnson.”

606 – In the Journal of his second visit to America, Whitefield remarked, “When the spirit of prayer began to be lost, then forms of prayer were invented.” There is more truth in this than some will be willing to allow.

607 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, March 23, 1768.

608 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 126.

609 – This edition of the “Letter” to Dr. Durell was in 12mo., 47 pp.

610 – Macgowan’s pamphlet on the same subject.

611 – “Life of Rowland Hill.” By Sidney, p. 44.

612 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”

613 – _Christian Miscellany_, 1856, p. 218.

614 – Some years ago, when the chapel was seriously injured by fire, this monument was destroyed.

615 – “Annual Register,” 1769, p. 110.

616 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”

617 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”

618 – “Whitefield’s Eighteen Sermons,” transcribed by Gurney, p. 199.

619 – There can be little doubt that this was the portrait by Hone, of which the engraving in the present volume is a copy. The Royal Academy was founded in 1768, and Hone was one of its first members.

620 – Wesley’s Journal.

621 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 128.

622 – His wife.

623 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 27.

624 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 27.

625 – Whitefield preached again in the evening, and also on the day following, when his text was 1 Thess. ii. 11, 12. (Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”)

626 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, July 31, 1769.

627 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 129.

628 – August 9, 1769.

629 – Captain Joss was now in Bristol. (Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 392.)

630 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, August 28, 1769.

631 – “Two Farewell Sermons, by Rev. G. Whitefield, 1770;” and “Eighteen Sermons, by Rev. George Whitefield, 1771.”

632 – In the crowds who listened to Whitefield’s last sermons in London, was a youth, seventeen years of age,――George Burder, afterwards a devoted and useful minister of Christ, the originator of the Religious Tract Society, secretary of the London Missionary Society, editor of the _Evangelical Magazine_, and author of the well-known “Village Sermons.” Burder’s conversion has been attributed to the ministry of Whitefield and Fletcher of Madeley. (“Jubilee Memorial of the Religious Tract Society,” p. 24.) In his Journal, he wrote:――“1769. August. About this time, I heard Mr. Whitefield preach several sermons, particularly his two last in London; that at Tottenham Court chapel on Sabbath morning, and that at the Tabernacle on Wednesday morning at seven o’clock. I remember a thought which passed my mind, I think, as I was going to hear his last sermon, ‘Which would I rather be, Garrick or Whitefield?’ I thought each, in point of oratory, admirable in his way. I doubt not conscience told me which was best. I wrote Mr. Whitefield’s sermons in shorthand, though standing in a crowd.” (“Life of Rev. George Burder,” by his Son.)

633 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”

634 – It has been already stated, that, the publication of this volume led to great unpleasantness. Joseph Gurney was a bookseller, in Holborn, opposite Hatton Garden. From an 8vo. pamphlet of eight pages, published at the time, and entitled, “J. Gurney’s Appeal to the Public,” it appears, that, on November 13, 1770, an agreement was made between Gurney and Mr. Keen, whereby Keen bound himself to “recommend and authenticate” Gurney’s publication, and Gurney agreed to give to Keen a shilling upon every copy sold. Gurney drew up an advertisement, which Keen engaged to have read in the pulpits of the Tabernacle and Tottenham Court Road chapel; but his engagement was not fulfilled. When the printing of the volume was nearly completed, Gurney sent the first nine sermons to Keen, and, a few days afterwards, met Mr. Hardy, who told him the “sermons were like the ravings of a madman, and were utterly unfit for publication.” Messrs. Keen, Hardy, and West offered to pay Gurney all the money he had spent, on condition that the sermons should not be issued to the public; but Gurney refused the offer. Mr. Kinsman read a notice from the Tabernacle pulpit, that, such a volume was about to be published, but stated that the “sermons were not Mr. Whitefield’s, either in sentiment or expression;” though, as Gurney alleges, Kinsman had previously acknowledged “the sermons were as delivered by Whitefield, but that Whitefield’s discourses, of late years, were very unfit for the press without undergoing considerable alterations.” Gurney had another angry interview with Keen and Hardy. The latter, on September 14, 1771, published the advertisement, printed, as a foot-note, in Whitefield’s collected Works, vol. iii., page 406. Gurney, however, persisted in publishing his book, but announced that if any purchasers were of opinion the “sermons were not genuine,” he would return to them their purchase money. He sold upwards of six hundred copies, but “not a single buyer expressed the least dissatisfaction.”

635 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”

636 – With one or two exceptions, the _whole_ of these letters were subscribed, “_Less than the least of all_, George Whitefield.”

637 – Wesley had recently joined in the services held in connection with the Countess of Huntingdon’s Academy at Trevecca. These services extended from the 18th to the 24th of August. The scene was memorable. Besides the Countess and a number of her aristocratic friends, there were present eight clergymen of the Church of England, a host of Welsh exhorters, the students, and an immense concourse of communicants and spectators. On leaving Trevecca, Wesley set out for Cornwall, so that he had no opportunity of a final hand-shake with his old friend, embarking for America.

638 – _Arminian Magazine_, 1783, p. 274.

639 – “Memoirs of Cornelius Winter,” p. 88.

640 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”

641 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”

642 – “Memoirs of Cornelius Winter,” p. 89.

643 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 408.

644 – “Life of Charles Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 244.

645 – Still, if the drinking of toasts had been omitted, there was nothing more objectionable in Whitefield’s gathering, than is sometimes witnessed among English Methodists at the present day; when a whole cavalcade wend their way, on the holy Sabbath, to some country town, to be present at the opening of some new meeting-house, and to be charmed and profited by some popular preacher.

646 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 255.

647 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 501.

648 – Whitefield intended to publish a new edition of the Homilies, and wrote a preface and compiled a number of prayers and hymns to be bound up with them. He strongly urged the reading of the Homilies from the pulpits of the Established Church, in accordance with the direction given in the Thirty-fifth Article, and very justly argued that, if this were done, “the desk and pulpit would not so frequently contradict each other.” (See Whitefield’s Works, vol. iv., pp. 441–454.)

649 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 256.

650 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” pp. 259–267.

651 – “Asbury’s Journal,” vol. i., p. 78.

652 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 263.

653 – “Memoirs of Cornelius Winter,” p. 144.

654 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 269.

655 – _Wesleyan Methodist Magazine_, 1825, p. 841.

It is right to add, that the authorities of Savannah, out of respect to Whitefield’s memory, secured what they could of the ruined property, and invested the proceeds in a school, which yet flourishes. (Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 458.)

656 – Stevens’ “History of the Methodist Episcopal Church,” vol. iii., p. 50.

657 – Boardman commenced the itinerancy in 1763, and Pilmoor in 1765.

658 – “Wesley’s Works,” vol. xii., p. 149.

659 – Ibid., vol. iii., p. 400.

660 – Ibid., vol. xi., p. 289.

661 – A strange rumour was circulated, at this time, in the London newspapers, that Whitefield had returned to England. _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, of April 2, announced, “Saturday, March 31, arrived in town, the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, from Georgia.”

662 – It is a noticeable fact that two of Whitefield’s oldest fellow labourers died in the same year as himself,――the Rev. Howell Davies, “the head of Calvinistic Methodism in Pembrokeshire,” and faithful Thomas Adams, the leader of the same cause in Gloucestershire and Wilts. (“Memoirs of Cornelius Winter,” p. 147.)

663 – Jesse Lee, who became a Methodist preacher in America, twelve years after Whitefield’s death, says in his “History of the Methodists in America” (p. 36), “In the year 1770, Mr. Whitefield passed through Philadelphia, and, calling on our preachers who were in that city, expressed to them his great satisfaction at finding them in this country, where there was such a great call for faithful labourers in the vineyard of the Lord. His labours, as an itinerant preacher, had been greatly blessed to the people in America; and, thereby, the way was opened for our preachers to travel and preach in different parts of the country.”

664 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1807, p. 292.

665 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield,” p. 358.

666 – _Methodist Magazine_, 1811, p. 788.

667 – In the _Pennsylvania Journal_, a letter was published, bearing date “Portsmouth, September 28, 1770.” The writer said, “Last Sunday morning came to town, from Boston, the Rev. George Whitefield; and, in the afternoon, he preached at the Rev. Dr. Haven’s meeting-house: Monday morning, he preached again at the same place, to a very large and crowded audience. Tuesday morning, a most numerous assembly met at the Rev. Dr. Langdon’s meeting-house, which, it is said, will hold nearly 6,000 people, and was well filled, even the aisles. In the evening, he preached at the Rev. Mr. John Rodgers’ meeting-house in Kittery; and yesterday, at the Rev. Mr. Lyman’s, in York, to which place a number of ladies and gentlemen from town accompanied him. This morning (Friday) he will preach at the Rev. Dr. Langdon’s meeting-house in this town.” (Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 433.)

668 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”

669 – Lee’s “History of American Methodists,” p. 36.

670 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield.”

671 – Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 435.

672 – _St. James’s Chronicle_, November 8, 1770.

673 – _Methodist World_, February 1, 1870.

674 – _Methodist World_, Feb. 1, 1870.

675 – Stevens’ “History of Methodism,” vol. i., p. 466.

676 – There can be but little doubt that the disease which terminated Whitefield’s life was _angina pectoris_.

677 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”

678 – “Funeral Sermon,” etc., by Rev. Jonathan Parsons, p. 28.

679 – Ibid.

680 – Ibid.

681 – Stevens’ “History of Methodism,” vol. i., p. 467.

682 – “Funeral Sermon,” etc., by Rev. Jonathan Parsons, p. 31.

683 – Whitefield’s friends, at Boston, intended to have him buried there. Hence the following, from a letter dated “Boston, October 2, 1770”:――“A number of gentlemen set out from hence, early this morning, for Newbury Port, which is forty miles from Boston, in order to make the necessary preparations for conveying the corpse of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield to this town, where he is to be interred, agreeable to his own request.”

684 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield,” p. 385.

685 – Winter’s “Memoirs,” p. 104.

686 – Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 447.

687 – _Gospel Magazine_, 1802, p. 12.

688 – Southey’s “Life of Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 379.

689 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield,” p. 399.

690 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield,” p. 400.

691 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1839, pp. 443, 590.

692 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes,” p. 389.

693 – _The Methodist_ (New York), Sept. 12, 1863.

694 – In 1834, the Rev. Andrew Reed, D.D., of London, and the Rev. James Matheson, D.D., of Durham, visited America as a deputation from the Congregational Union of England and Wales; and, in 1835, a similar deputation, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Cox, and the Rev. Dr. Hoby, was sent from the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Both the deputations entered Whitefield’s sepulchre, and have left descriptions of what they saw and felt; but for want of space, their reports cannot be inserted here.

695 – _Methodist Recorder_, Dec. 27, 1867.

♦696 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes,” p. 396.

697 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, February 11, 1771.

698 – Whitefield’s adulations, especially of those belonging to the higher classes of society, were often objectionable. Southey, noticing one of his letters to the Countess of Huntingdon, remarks: “Wesley would not have written in this strain, which, for its servile adulation, and its canting vanity, might well provoke disgust and indignation, were not the real genius and piety of the writer beyond all doubt. The language, however, was natural in Whitefield, and not ill suited for the person to whom it was addressed.” (Life of Wesley.) This animadversion is somewhat strong; but, a few passages in Whitefield’s letters to the nobility, almost justify the Poet-Laureate’s critique.

699 – Peter Edwards was one of Whitefield’s orphans, and, at the anniversary of laying the foundation of the Orphan House, on March 27, 1771, delivered a long address to the Governor of Georgia, many members of the Council, and a great number of the principal inhabitants of the province, assembled together in the Orphan House chapel, which on this day was opened, and solemnly dedicated to the service of God. The Rev. Edward Ellington, minister of the parish of St. Bartholomew, in South Carolina, read prayers, and preached a sermon from Matt. xviii. 20. Divine service being ended, the young gentlemen of the recently commenced academy recited passages from some of the best English authors; and the day’s proceedings were concluded with a speech from the tutor, Mr. Edward Langworthy. (“Whitefield’s Works,” vol. iii., pp. 503–509.)

700 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, February 6, 1771.

701 – In a foot-note, Titus Knight makes a statement which was doubtless true, though almost incredible; namely, that even after the arrival of the news of Whitefield’s death, Foote’s execrable comedy, “The Minor,” was acted in the theatre at Edinburgh.

702 – De Courcy, in the preface to his “Elegiac Lines,” remarks: “What a pattern of flaming zeal, and faithfulness in the ministry, was this servant of the Lord! With what unabated assiduity, fortitude, and patience, did he persevere in holding forth the word of life! How great was his disinterestedness of spirit! With what a catholic, loving heart did he embrace all of all denominations, who loved the Lord Jesus in sincerity!” In a foot-note to his poem, the author relates that, in his sermons, Whitefield often said, “The moment I leave the body, and plunge into the world of spirits, the first question I shall ask will be――_Where’s my Saviour?_”

703 – An elegy was published in the _New York Gazette_, of October 19, 1770, from which the following lines are taken:――

“Methinks, I see him in the pulpit stand, With graceful gesture and persuasive hand; Whilst, with attention deep, the list’ning throng Admire the words proceeding from his tongue, Struck by his arrows, harden’d sinners start, Their looks betray the anguish of their heart With terror fill’d, to God they lift their eyes, And fill His ear with penitential sighs.”

704 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”

705 – Ibid.

706 – Ibid.

707 – The following appeared in one of the London newspapers:――“We hear that, on Sunday next, funeral sermons, on the death of the late Rev. Mr. Whitefield, who, it is said, died worth £30,000, will be preached at all the Methodist meeting-houses in and about London, particularly the Tabernacles in Tottenham Court Road and Moorfields. Yesterday, a caveat was entered at Doctors Commons by a principal creditor of the late Rev. Mr. George Whitefield.”

708 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_ of November 19, 1770, remarked: “The front of the gallery round the chapel was quite covered with black cloth, as were the pulpit, reading-desk, and communion-table, which had escutcheons of Mr. Whitefield’s arms and crest. The many thousands who attended was almost incredible, who, being clothed in black, chiefly out of respect to their much-loved minister, together with the hanging, had a most uncommon appearance.”

709 – Wesley had a reason for thus referring to himself and his brother Charles. At his Annual Conference, held in London within the last four months, he had announced his _Theses_, shewing in what way he and his preachers had “leaned too much toward Calvinism.” This hugely offended the Countess of Huntingdon and her friends, and led to the bitterest controversy in Wesley’s history.

710 – This was a dignified rebuke administered to the infamous Samuel Foote, and the admirers of his profane and filthy “Minor.”

711 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, March 1, 1771.

712 – Stevens’s “History of Methodism,” vol. i., p. 467.

713 – _Gospel Magazine_, 1771, p. 80.

714 – Mr. Zubley was first minister of the Presbyterian Church at Savannah, and entered upon his charge in 1760. He originally came from Switzerland, and preached in English, German, and French, as occasion required. He was a man of great learning, and died in 1781.

715 – Dr. Cooper was converted by Whitefield’s instrumentality, and became one of the most popular preachers in America. One of the publications of the period, in describing the scene in Brattle Street Church, when Cooper preached Whitefield’s funeral sermon, said: “Pews, aisles, and seats were so crowded, and heads and shoulders were in such close phalanx, that it looked as though a man might walk everywhere upon the upper surface of the assembly, without finding an opening for descending to the floor.”

716 – Mr. Brewer preached in Spitalfields, from Psalm xxxvii. 37; and Mr. Skelton, one of Wesley’s seceded itinerants, in Maid Lane, Southwark, from Acts xiii. 36. (Old Newspaper.)

717 – As a curiosity, the following may be added: “Yesterday morning, about eight o’clock, a man, mounted on a stool, at the Seven Dials, preached a funeral sermon on the death of his dear master, Mr. George Whitefield.” (_Lloyd’s Evening Post_, Monday, Nov. 12, 1770.)

718 – Cornelius Winter says that he himself composed and wrote the sermon preached by Mr. Ellington. (“Memoirs of Cornelius Winter,” p. 104.) The letters attached to Mr. Ellington’s name suggest the thought that Winter was also the publisher of the sermon.

719 – _New Spiritual Magazine_, 1783, pp. 849 to 851.

720 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 92.

721 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, December 19, 1770.

722 – Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 446.

723 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, June 20, 1772.

724 – At the founding of the Royal Academy, in 1768, Nathaniel Hone was chosen one of the members, and maintained his reputation till his death, in 1784. The portrait in the second volume of this work is a faithful representation of a very fine engraving, published in 1769, and taken from the painting by Hone. The portrait in the first volume is copied from an engraving, published, by the authority of Whitefield himself, in his “Christian’s Companion, or Sermons on several subjects,” in 1739. (12mo. 335 pp.)

725 – Another testimony may be welcome. The celebrated Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to a gentleman in Georgia, wrote:――“I cannot forbear expressing the pleasure it gives me to see an account of the respect paid to Mr. Whitefield’s memory by your Assembly. I knew him intimately upwards of thirty years. His integrity, disinterestedness, and indefatigable zeal in prosecuting every good work, I have never seen equalled, and shall never see excelled.” (Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 447.)

726 – Rev. John Angell James.

727 – The Rev. Abel Stevens, LL.D.

728 – The following statistics are all taken from “The Methodist Almanac, for 1876; edited by W. H. De Puy, D.D.,” and published, under the direction of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Transcriber’s Notes.

The following corrections have been made in the text:

Page viii: Sentence starting: Embarks for America——Letter.... – ‘Ophan’ replaced with ‘Orphan’ (Memorable Sermon there――Orphan House) – ‘Centotaph’ replaced with ‘Cenotaph’ (His Cenotaph――Proposed Monument)

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Page 29: Sentence starting: On Sunday, August 22nd,... – ‘Mearnes’ replaced with ‘Mearns’ (and twice at Mearns;)

Page 30: Sentence starting: Whitefield came back to Edinburgh.... – ‘Edinbugh’ replaced with ‘Edinburgh’ (Whitefield came back to Edinburgh)

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Footnote 20: – Footnote on page 28 was not referenced in the text.

Footnote 162: – ‘Princetown’ replaced with ‘Princeton’ (as president of Princeton College)

Footnote 225: – ‘Huntingdom’ replaced with ‘Huntingdon’ (“Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,”)

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