History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions . ericahas known. George Whitefield was born in the BullInn, at Gloucester, England, December 16,1714. He acquired the rudiments of learn-ing in St. Marys grammar school. Laterhe attended Oxford University for a time,where he became intimate with the OxfordMethodists, and resolved to devote himselfto the ministry. He was ordained in theGloucester Cathedral June 20, 1S36, andthe following day preached his first sermonin the same church. On that day therecommenc
History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions . ericahas known. George Whitefield was born in the BullInn, at Gloucester, England, December 16,1714. He acquired the rudiments of learn-ing in St. Marys grammar school. Laterhe attended Oxford University for a time,where he became intimate with the OxfordMethodists, and resolved to devote himselfto the ministry. He was ordained in theGloucester Cathedral June 20, 1S36, andthe following day preached his first sermonin the same church. On that day therecommenced a new era in Whitefields went to London and began to preach atBishopsgate church, his fame soon spread-ing over the city, and shortly he was en-gaged four times on a single Sunday in ad-dressing audiences of enormous magnitude,and he preached in various parts of his nativecountry, the people crowding in multitudesto hear him and hanging upon the rails andrafters of the churches and approaches there-to. He finally sailed for America, landingin Georgia, he stirred the people togreat enthusiasm. During the balance oi. ^. ^^ i B LNJ. BUTLER}- , -ZT^ ^ COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHT. 153 his life he divided his time between GreatBritain and America, and it is recorded thathe crossed the Atlantic thirteen times. Hecame to America for the seventh time in1770. He preached every day at Bostonfrom the 17th to the 20th of September,1770, then traveled to Nevvburyport, preach-ing at Exeter, New Hampshire, September29, on the way. That evening he went toNewburyport, where he died the next day,Sunday, September 30, 1770. Whitefields dramatic power was amaz-ing, says an eminent writer in describinghim. His voice was marvelously varied,and he ever had it at command—an organ,a flute, a harp, all in one. His intellectualpowers were not of a high order, but he hadan abundance of that ready talent and thatwonderful magnetism which makes the pop-ular preacher; and beyond all natural en
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