The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . people were anxiousto retain him there, and made him tempt-ing offers, which he refused. He wasdelighted to find that the interest in di- 152 The Illustrated History of Methodism. vine things excited during his first visithad been steadily maintained. Whitefield was to make four othervisits to America. He returned in 1751,a
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . people were anxiousto retain him there, and made him tempt-ing offers, which he refused. He wasdelighted to find that the interest in di- 152 The Illustrated History of Methodism. vine things excited during his first visithad been steadily maintained. Whitefield was to make four othervisits to America. He returned in 1751,and once more in 1754 by way of Lis-bon. On his sixth visit he sailed fromScotland to Virginia, where, in a fieldwhich he describes as being as unlikelyas Rome itself, he succeeded in arous-ing deep religious concern. It wasduring this visit in the winter of 1763, house at Bethesda. A spirit of cath-olicity marks his utterances at this does not say, Are you an Inde-pendent, a Baptist, a Presbyterian, orare you a Church of England man?Nor did .He ask, Are you a Methodist ?The Lord divides the whole world intosheep and goats. O sinners, you arecome to hear a poor creature take hislast farewell: but I want you to forgetthe creature and his preaching. I want. WHTTEFIEEDS BIBLE), KEPT IN THE VESTRY OF THE OED SOUTH, NEWBURYPORT. that the work at New York prospered ina singular manner, and much of theploughing was done which prepared theway for the planting of the seed byEmbury and others four years later. From his seventh journey he was des-tined never to return. He started onhis final voyage across the Atlantic inunusually good health and spirits. Thework in London and elsewhere wasprosperous, and contributions had pouredin from all quarters to help the orphan- to lead further than the Tabernacle—even to Mount Calvary, to see with whatexpense of blood Jesus Christ purchasedHis own. In this closing address atthe Tabernacle, from which the forego-ing extract is taken, he
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