Chapter XV

HIS LAST LABORS IN GREAT BRITAIN--COLLEGE
AT TREVECCA--EARL OF BUCHAN--TUNBRIDGE
WELLS.

1767-1769.

Letter to Keen--Whitefield preaches before the Book
Society--Change in his style and manner of preaching--
Expulsion of six students from Oxford--Whitefield's letter
to the Vice-chancellor--Usefulness of the expelled young
men--Letter to a gentleman at Wisbeach--To Captain Scott--
To Hon. and Rev. Walter Shirley--Death and funeral services
of the Earl of Buchan--Whitefield's last visit to
Edinburgh--Death of Mrs. Whitefield--Whitefield's own
sickness--Dedication of the college at Trevecca--Improvement
of his health--Letter to Mr. Shirley--Letter of Dr. Franklin
to Whitefield--Whitefield's remarks on it--Dedication of
church at Tunbridge Wells--Contemplated voyage to America--
His last sermon--Account of Rev. George Burder--Messrs.
Wilson--Embarkation of Whitefield--Detained in the Downs--
Ordination and preaching at Deal--Anecdote of Dr. Gibbons--
Clears the Channel--Arrival at Charleston 400

CHAPTER XVI.

SEVENTH VISIT AND LAST LABORS IN AMERICA--DEATH.

1769, 1770.

Arrival at Bethesda--Its prosperity--Honors paid him by the
legislature--Letter at Charleston--Plan of the proposed
college--Visits Philadelphia--Preaches at Burlington, New
York, Albany--Attends an execution--Visit to Sharon--
Conversion of Mr. Randall--Visit to Boston--Letters to
Messrs. Wright and Keen--Letter in Pennsylvania Journal--
Arrival at Exeter--Anecdote--Vast congregation--Delivers his
last sermon--Account of it--His solemnly interesting
appearance--Rodgers' Journal--Journey of Whitefield to
Newburyport--Alarming illness--Death--His remarks to Dr.
Finley--Arrangements for the funeral--Its solemn services--
Cenotaph 423

CHAPTER XVII.

TESTIMONIES AND FACTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF WHITEFIELD'S
CHARACTER.

Funeral sermon by Dr. Cooper--Respect shown to his memory in
Georgia--Whitefield county--Sermon by Rev. Mr. Ellington--
Arrival of the news in London--Sermon by Rev. J. Wesley--
Rev. John Newton--Anecdote--Reply of Bacon the sculptor--
Visits to his tomb--Old man in Ipswich--Whitefield's
indifference to his reputation and ease--Institution at
Georgia--Laborious life--Extraordinary voice--Use of common
facts--Anecdotes--His solemnity of manner--Testimony of an
American preacher--Of Winter--Anecdotes--Sermons in storms--
Appearance in the pulpit--Character of his printed sermons--
His devotional spirit--Visiting the sick--Intercourse with
society--Neatness 445

CHAPTER XVIII.

CHARACTER OF WHITEFIELD AS A PREACHER--CENTENNIAL
COMMEMORATIONS.

Prominence given by him to the truths of salvation--His
ardent glow of feeling--His direct address--His habitual
dependence on the Spirit of God--Dealt with men as immortal
beings--Dr. Hamilton's estimate of Whitefield--Comparison of
Whitefield and Wesley--Centennial commemorations--Hymns by
Mr. Conder--Usefulness--Bristol Tabernacle--Mr. James'
sermon--Character of Whitefield's ministry, by Mr. Glanville 479