The history of Methodism . enter your chapel whilethey are alive. They can do you no harm when they aredead. The Tabernacle became the mother sanctuary ofmany congregations, and many distinguished preachersoccupied its pulpit: De Courcy, Berridge, Shirley, Percy(chaplain to General Washington), Rowland Hill, TorialJoss, Edward Parsons, of York, Matthew Wilks, and manyothers. For a century it was Whitefields one memorial inLondon; the original building and its successor have dis-appeared. A new building, called the Whitefield Memorial A Dying Saint 829 Tabernacle, stands on their site, having a
The history of Methodism . enter your chapel whilethey are alive. They can do you no harm when they aredead. The Tabernacle became the mother sanctuary ofmany congregations, and many distinguished preachersoccupied its pulpit: De Courcy, Berridge, Shirley, Percy(chaplain to General Washington), Rowland Hill, TorialJoss, Edward Parsons, of York, Matthew Wilks, and manyothers. For a century it was Whitefields one memorial inLondon; the original building and its successor have dis-appeared. A new building, called the Whitefield Memorial A Dying Saint 829 Tabernacle, stands on their site, having at the head of itscorner the original stone placed by Whitefield in 1756. Whitefield wished his new chapel to be connected with theEstablished Church, but the difficulties of securing this provedso great that he was driven to avail himself of the Act ofToleration, and license it as a Dissenting meetinghouse. He was not greatly distressed by the necessity of thus be-et uning the minister of a Dissenting chapel. Thanks be to. 2 \yctktiJiamC(uH JicadSluitiA VJ7J6 6^Jclu,ntn^ai-icn/L {;«•?*--/, <^ ^ey-MGKUCE wmTCflElD Cliaftlai*L to Vie R!J/cnf Ou Gown/e/i whitefields tabernacle, 1756. Jesus, wrote he, for that liberty which we have. Withsome of the leading Dissenting ministers both in Englandand America he was now on terms of close friendship. Dr. Watts, who had rebuked Dr. Doddridge for preachingin Whitefields old wooden Tabernacle in Moorfields, haddied in 1748. Before he passed away AYhitefield visited the patriarch and tenderly inquired how he found himself. I am one of Christs waiting servants, replied the dyingdoctor. Whitefield assisted in raising him in bed. Watts apolo- 830 British Methodism gized for the trouble he was giving. Whitefield answered,Surely I am not too good to wait on a waiting servantof Christ. Whitefield took his leave, and half an hour laterDr. Watts was dead. Thus met and parted the greathymnist and preacher, until they met again in
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