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Title: The history of Methodism
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: New York : Eaton & Mains
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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lay the man for God! The indefatigable industry ofTyerman finds no evidence in proof that the marriage wasan unhappy one. Their only child, a son, died at the age offour months, in the house in which Whitefield was born—The Bell Inn, Gloucester—and was laid, says Whitefield,in the church were I was baptized, first communicated, andfirst preached. This loss was a great sorrow to him, for hehad been confident that the child was to succeed him as apreacher. For thirty-one years, from the date of his conversion (1739)to his death, in 1770, \\ nitefield traveled and preached withsuch consuming energy that the attempt to follow him pro-duces a sensation of breathlessness. In 1744 he made histhird visit to America, remaining four years; his fourth visitwas in 1751, less than one year; the fifth in 1754, a littleover a year; the sixth in 1763, lasting about two years; hislast in 1769. His American friends at Portsmouth, N. H. (one ofwhom was Colonel Pepperell, the hero of Louisbourgi, ex-
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PAlNTEO 8* HONE. THE REVEREND GEORGE WHITEFIELD, A.M. Chaplain lo the Countess of Huntingdon. Whitefields Illness 817 pected his death during a severe illness in 1744, but whenthe hour of service came he suddenly exclaimed, By thehelp of (rod I will go and preach, and then come home anddie. With great difficulty he reached the pulpit to bearwhat he thought would be his dying testimony to the truth,and to the invisible realities of another world. After anhours preaching he was prostrate, and lying on a bed beforethe fire, heard his friends saw He is gone! He rallied,however, and soon after a poor negro woman sat. down onthe ground, looked earnestly in his faee, and said: Master,you just go to heavens gate, but Jesus said, Get you down,o-et you down ; you must not come here vet. Go first andcall more poor negroes. He became involved in a literary war. .Some of the Presby-terian and Congregationalist ministers opposed him, as wellas Episcopalians. He sometimes provoked them by his rashan

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