. The Countess of Huntingdon and her circle . the Methodists,found his temper ruffled by her ladyships elo-quence, and took his departure openly lamentingthat he had ever laid hands on George Whitefield,to whom he attributed the change wrought onher. My lord, said the Countess, mark my words;when you are on your dying bed that will be oneof the few ordinations which you will reflect uponwith complacence. Possibly when the time came Bishop Bensonreflected that none of all the other candidates hehad ordained had brought such sheaves of soulsinto the heavenly garner. Lady Huntingdon might approve
. The Countess of Huntingdon and her circle . the Methodists,found his temper ruffled by her ladyships elo-quence, and took his departure openly lamentingthat he had ever laid hands on George Whitefield,to whom he attributed the change wrought onher. My lord, said the Countess, mark my words;when you are on your dying bed that will be oneof the few ordinations which you will reflect uponwith complacence. Possibly when the time came Bishop Bensonreflected that none of all the other candidates hehad ordained had brought such sheaves of soulsinto the heavenly garner. Lady Huntingdon might approve of liberty, butit was in her character to detest Hcense, yet aconspicuous offender on the very points to whichthe Bishop of Gloucester was most opposed wasthe man to whom Lady Huntingdon and manylike her were most attracted. This was the golden-mouthed young Whitefield, the tall, slight sHp ofa lad, Uttle over twenty, with his fair face anddelicate features, his wonderful blue eyes scarcelymarred by the cast in one of them, which won for 26. \Photo by Emery Walker GEORGE WHITEFIELD From the Nalional Portrait Gallery GEORGE WHITEFIELD him from his ehemies and traducers the mockingtitle of Doctor Squintum. It appeared little short of marvellous that atno distant date Whitefield had worn the blue apronof a drawer or pot-boy, and had served withale his mothers customers at the Bell Inn inWorcester. It was a marvel of which he was inno way ashamed, any more than of having been a servitor at Pembroke College, Oxford, insuccession to Doctor Johnson. Whitefield wroteshort notices of his early life and experience, andcaused them to be printed and circulated amonghis followers, that they might bless God on hisaccount and take courage on their own. The contrast between the Drawer and thePreacher was so amazing that in place of injuringhis popularity in aristocratic quarters, it simplyincreased the sensation which made it the fashionfor fine ladies to go and hear the eloquent Methodistadd
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