. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. ich was no inconsiderable feat, the trav-elling facilities of those days being considered. While on a voy-nge to Ceylon in 1814 he was taken violently ill and expired in thesixty-eighth year of his age. He was the author of numerousworks ; his chief one, however, was a Commentary on the OJdand New Testaments. George Whitfield, found
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. ich was no inconsiderable feat, the trav-elling facilities of those days being considered. While on a voy-nge to Ceylon in 1814 he was taken violently ill and expired in thesixty-eighth year of his age. He was the author of numerousworks ; his chief one, however, was a Commentary on the OJdand New Testaments. George Whitfield, founder of the Calvinistic Methodists, wasborn in 1714 at Gloucester, where his father kept the Bell at Pembroke College, Oxford, he joined the Wesleys andtheir associates, and on being ordained deacon he soon became apopular preacher. In 1738 he went to the American settlement ofGeorgia, where his conduct gave great satisfaction to the colonists,and he returned to England to procure subscriptions for buildingan orphan-house in the settlement. Having taken priests orders,he repaired to London, and the churches in which he preachedwere incapable of holding the assembled crowds ; he thereforeadopted the plan of preaching in the open air. In 1739 he again. CONNECTED WITH RELIGIOUS HISTORY. embarked for America and made a tour of several of the provinwhere he preached to immense audiences, and returned to Eng-land in 1741. About, this time the difference of yiew betwWhitfield and Wesley respecting the doctrine of election appeared,and it led to their separation without utterly destroying theirfriendship. In 1748 Whitfield was introduced to the celebratedCountess of Huntingdon and was appointed her chaplain. Likehis friend Wesley, he married a widow, and his married life is saidto have been unhappy. After visiting many parts of England,Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and displaying a degree of intre-pidity and zeal that overcame all difficulties, he made a seventhvoyage to Americ
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