. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... e he became intimate with the OxfordMethodists, and resolved to devote himselfto the ministry. He was ordained in theGloucester Cathedral June 20, 1836, andthe following day preached his first sermonin the same church. On that day there fediniJtuliCgd a jli;W ^m in Whit^tkid^ iiii5:He went to London and began to preach atBishopsgate church, his f^iUie soon spread-ing over the city, and shortly he was en-gaged four on a single Sunday in ad-dressing audience
. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... e he became intimate with the OxfordMethodists, and resolved to devote himselfto the ministry. He was ordained in theGloucester Cathedral June 20, 1836, andthe following day preached his first sermonin the same church. On that day there fediniJtuliCgd a jli;W ^m in Whit^tkid^ iiii5:He went to London and began to preach atBishopsgate church, his f^iUie soon spread-ing over the city, and shortly he was en-gaged four on a single Sunday in ad-dressing audiences of enormous magnitude,and he preached in various parts of his nativecountry, the people crowding in multitudesto hear him and hanging upon the rails andrafters of the churches and approaches there-to. He finally sailed for America, landingin Georgia, he stirred the people togreat enthusiasm. During the balance of ;. J jU ???jj :?? iJ i r^;:.:; :. i: • .?;!?]•,?.?^ ,, :\o ;tiij vr .jG fn ,;).,.. /i:ri!zf7.*t;j I ^ •• /-_. :! A iAl.) COMrBNJJJlJ.}r OF BJOGJiAPJn; i; his life he divided his time between GreatjJritain and America, and it is recorded thathe crossed the Atlantic thirteen times. liecame to America lor the seventh time in1770. He preached ever} day at ]>ostonfrom the 17th to the 20th of September,1770, then traveled to Newbnryport, preach-iu at Kxetcr, New IIamj)shire, September29, on the way. Tiiat ; he went toNcwbm-yport, wdiere he (bed the next day,Sunday, September 30, 1770. • Whitefields dramatic power wasamaz-inc;, says an eminent writer in describinghim. His voice was marvelously varied,and he ever had it at command—an organ,a ilute, .a harp, all in one. His intellectualpowers were not of a high order, but he hadan abundance of that ready talent and thatwonderful magnetism which makes the pop-ular preacher; aiid beyond all natural en-dowments, there was in his ministry thepower of evangelical truth, and, as his con-vert
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