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soften, and concluded to give the cop per. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and deter mined me to give the silver; and he finished so admirably that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector’s dish, gold and all.” Whitefield was once offered a charge at the salary of $4000, and six months leave of absence each year to engage in evangelistic work, but he refused to be bound down. REMARKABLE ORATORY. He was a born orator. Nature en-
pice, and he is left to explore the path with his iron-shod staff. On the very edge of the cliff the staff slips through his fingers and skims away down thè abyss. All unconscious, ' its owner stoops down to regain it, and stum bles forward. ‘Good God, he is gone ! shouted Chesterfield, (who had been realizing, with breathless alarm, the blind man’s movements), jumping up from his seat to avert the catas trophe.” DEATH AND BURIAL. Whitefield often expressed a wish
Newburyport Church, showing Marble Cenotaph over Whitefield’s Tomb
dowed him with a marvelous voice and a graceful delivery. David. Gar rick said that he believed Whitefield could make men weep or tremble at his varied utterance of the word “Mesopotamia.” His powers of de scription were wonderful. “Lord Chesterfield was one day listening in Lady Huntington’s pew, when White- field was comparing the benighted sin ner to a blind beggar on a dangerous road. His little dog gets away from him when skirting the edge of a preci-
that he might die in the harness, and God granted his desire. On the morning of Saturday, Sep tember 29, 1770, he rode from Ports mouth to Exeter, New Hampshire, and preached to a large company in the fields. One of his friends remark ed to him that he looked more fit to go to bed than to preach. He ans wered: “True, sir.” Turning aside he clasped hi's hands and looking up, said, “Lord Jesus, I am weary in thy work, but not of thy work. If I have
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