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Another striking feature in White- field’s preaching was his singular pow er of description. Another leading characteristic of Whitefield’s was his tremendous earn estness. One more feature in Whitefield’s preaching deserves special notice; and that is, the immense amount of pathos and feeling which it always contained. HIS CHARACTER. He was a man of deep and un feigned humility. He was a man of burning love to our Lord Jesus Christ. He was a man of unwearied dili gence and laboViousness about his Master’s business. He was to the end a man^of emi nent self-denial. He was a man of remarkable dis interestedness and singleness of eye. He was a man of a singularly happy and cheerful spirit. One lady declared that “Mr. Whitefield. was so cheerful that it tempted me to be come a Christian.” Last, but not least, he was a man of extraordinary charity, catholicity, and liberality in his religion.
glass? I do not know. I was stand ing on “holy ground.” My heart was too full to let me see anything mortal for that moment. I thought of the man I had reverenced for years, but my heart went out in gratitude to the Christ who had saved him and made him such a marvelous instrument for His own use. And my heart went out in prayer, too, that the same Christ, my Saviour also, would help me to be as faithful in my day, and in my service as George Whitefield was in his. HIS, CHARACTERISTICS. Probably Whitefield’s character and characteristics have never been better described than by the late Bishop J. C. Ryle, of Liverpool, from whose book, ^Christian Leaders in England in the Eighteenth Century,” the fol lowing “Distinctive Characteristics of Whitefield’s Preaching,” is taken, though we have condensed it, some what : For one thing, Whitefield preached a singularly pure gospel. For another thing, Whitefield’s preaching was singularly lucid and simple. For another thing, Whitefield was a singularly bold and direct preacher.
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