The history of Methodism . f the gospel by motives so persuasive and awful and with an influence so powerful on the hearts of his hearers. He died of asthma Septr. 30, 1770. suddenly changing his life of unparalleled labors for his eternal rest. The house in which Whitefield died is still standing, inSchool Street (Nos. 9 and 11), Newburyport. In the samestreet William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist, was of pilgrims have visited the Presbyterian meeting-house to look at the old Bible from which Whitefieldpreached, the chair in which he died, and the open coffin inthe vault. I
The history of Methodism . f the gospel by motives so persuasive and awful and with an influence so powerful on the hearts of his hearers. He died of asthma Septr. 30, 1770. suddenly changing his life of unparalleled labors for his eternal rest. The house in which Whitefield died is still standing, inSchool Street (Nos. 9 and 11), Newburyport. In the samestreet William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist, was of pilgrims have visited the Presbyterian meeting-house to look at the old Bible from which Whitefieldpreached, the chair in which he died, and the open coffin inthe vault. I confess, wrote one Englishman, in 1867, whotouched the skull in which once throbbed the busy brainof the preacher, I envy America the possession of theearthly remains of dear George Whitefield; but perhaps it is Whitefields Memorial Sermon 843 appropriate that while England claims the dust of Wesleythe great republic should be the guardian of the dust of hisholy brother. The news of Whitefields death reached England in No-. THE the South Presbyterian Church, Newburyport. vember. In compliance with Whitefields expressed wishJohn Wesley preached his funeral sermon in TottenhamCourt Road Chapel. Charles Wesley wrote an elegy, notperhaps in his best style, but full of tender feeling, de-scribing him as a living witness of the truths he taught; 844 , British Methodism for friendship formed by nature and by grace. WilliamCowper, whose friend John Newton was one of Whitefieldsmost ardent admirers, enshrined the pulpit orator in hisfamous lines—well worth quoting once again : He loved the world that hated him ; the tearThat dropped upon his Bible was by scandal and the tongue of strife,His only answer was a blameless life,And he that forged and he that threw the dartHad each a brothers interest in his love of Christ, and steadiness unbribed,Were copied close in him, and well transcribed ;He followed Paul ; his zeal a kindred flame,
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