. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . mselves as the visitors tothe sick, or the poor, or the imprisoned. Such were the men thatJohn Wesley joined about the year 1729. And if aught more needbe added to show what a remarkable association this must have been,it will be found in the fact that Hervey, the author of the Medita-tions in a Churchyard, and Whitfield were among them. How Whit-field—the son of very respectably-descended but poor parents—gotthere is worth narrating. Not long before, he had been assistinghis mother (a w
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . mselves as the visitors tothe sick, or the poor, or the imprisoned. Such were the men thatJohn Wesley joined about the year 1729. And if aught more needbe added to show what a remarkable association this must have been,it will be found in the fact that Hervey, the author of the Medita-tions in a Churchyard, and Whitfield were among them. How Whit-field—the son of very respectably-descended but poor parents—gotthere is worth narrating. Not long before, he had been assistinghis mother (a widow) in the business of her tavern, and, as he him-self states, with a kind of exultation in his abasement.—At lengthI put on my blue apron and my snuffers, washed mops, cleanedrooms, and in one word became a professed and common drawer fornigh a year and a half. Subsequently his mother became still lessable to aid his views as to a university education, which he ardentlydesired, and for which he was prepared, having been an excellentscholar at the grammar-school of Gloucester. But after a time,.
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