True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-01-14
q. Raglan, Editor and Proprietor.

in the hearts Of hundreds of thousands,
e oh what sweet communion. he says.
"had I.daily vouchsafed with God in
prayer-how often have | been carried
beyond myself--how assuredly | felt that
Christ dwelt in me and | in him, and
how daily did | walk in the comfort Of
the Holy Ghost, and was edited and re-
lreshed in the multitude Of peace"
e" Upon this / had no rest in my soul ill
| wrote letters TO my relations, telling
them there was such thingas the New
Birth !" He received ordination from.
Bishop Benson; but found the churches
closed against him. The gospel was as
"a burning fire shut up in his bones )"
God had shown him his power in preach
ing his gospel, and he resorted to the
fields, embraced all opportunities, aud
for more than thirty years, from the time
ho frs; saw the marks Of The tears on the
cheeks Of the Kingswood golfers by
whom he expected to have been stoned,
until his death at NewburypOrt in l77O,
at the age Of fifty six, he probably address
ed moro souls, and was The means Of the
conversion of more sinners 10 God, by
the living voice, than any other man that
has lived. 1t is testified Of him that III
the compass OF single week. aud thai
for years, he spoke in general forty hours,
and lha, TO thousands /; and after his la
bors instead of taking any rest, he was
engaged in offering up prayers and inter
cessiuns, with hymns and spiritual songs,
as his manIer was. in every house i'll
which he was invited" A wild youth
going to hear him for mere curiosity. res
listed all his appeals I'LL, in tie midst O
his sermon. Mr.. Whitfield abruptly
paused, burst into food of tears, llltel
up his hands and eyes, and exclaimed
"Oh, my bearers. the wrath 10 come
the wrath 10 comev' These word
sunk into the young mans heart, am
won him 10 The service and 10 th'
ministry of Christ in long and useiu
life. - a''..
But we mnst- pause. The theme can
not be fully presented in our brief col
umns. Thirteen lines Whitfield crossed
lhe Atlantic; and on both sides of tht
water, on all occasions, hundreds ant
thousands hung upon his lips, whethe
ne was in London or other parts of Eng
land in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland il
Georgia, or New Hampshire ; in Charles
ton, Philadelphia, New York. or Boston
or the country intervening. In man.
cases ten, and in some even twenty thous
and listened 10 his impassioned appeals
and fruits unto eternal life were gathered
all along his course ill che was not. fol
God took him." ..a l
1t is scarcely loo much to say that
full history of Whitfield would involve al
outline of the Christian fidelity aud act'v
ity of almost all the host of distinguishes
men in all the cities and countries abov
named, whom God made pre.eminentl
useful in g The great awakening" durin
tha thirty years of his rapid and brlllian
career. We wish and hope yet TO Sc
his history presented in form adaple
TO common minds ; that what God did b
this his servant may be more fully know
and that ministers and Christians of ou
own day may catch more of his spir
and of that in which lay his power -entir
conservation to Christ in the salvation {
dying men. .,..,, ....... .