The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1864-01-14
George Whitfield.

Inef0 was oFignt, rosy FOVy WV
blue apron, in an inn, struggling with
confusion Of great thoughts within
which he could not either exclude or
orehend. There was the poor serv
Pembroke College. choosing the ms
irudgery, wearing the coarssst clothin
ing the worst Of food and but little
standing in the biting frost until he b
ceiling in his feet or fingers, and tryip:
70 fast the whole forty days Of Lent
we're the glimpscs they had Of the chill
md youth Of George WHITFIELD, who
wards became an evangelist such Al
world has never known since Peter the -
preached at Pentecost. Reused fromyS 3,
righteousness, and opening his beArt IL
love of the Savior. he went on his firstu
of pleaching. Church after church
,lo.ed against him. but he went into thet
air and proclaimed to listening thous,
the unsearchable ri.hes Of Christ. Tn
fects which followed were extraordinar
As he stood forth, his manly counten
eeemed 10 bespeak hearing and when
MS voice was heard, 30 exquisitely "
tuned, and so successfully was it vie
high and low were subject to its spell.
20 his eloquence the earnestness which
heat of holy passion kindled, and they W
not wonder at his influence. His powe'
description must have been marvellous
saw the scenes he painted. David Hume
held enchained by his eloquence until lac
got to sneer. The philosophic franklin
moved like common man; and the
fetal Chesterfield was startled for once i
an impulse Of real feeling, and sprang
ward to arrest the fall of the blind beg
whom the speaker pictured on the cliff
Alone he went TO Bartholomew Fair,
commenced to preach. The showmen g,
up their pursuits. A deaf old woman,
had at frst obstructed him, was found cia
bering up the pulpit stairs, th:t she mi
not lose syllable of his Sermon. The .
sons who heard hir wept and trembled
The tears made little rills Of cleanaes do
the cheeks Of the Kineswood Golfers. c
dren lung upon his lips with loving, "a
es. eyes,; but perhaps the most touching
lu stration of h is influence was the case o
little boy who sickened after he had hea
him preach. and whose soul cried out in
pauses Of pain, "Let me 60 to Mr. Whitfiel
God" This was not the power of what '
called the pocket hand kerohief. nor disss
bled tears. Whitfield could not help be
being an orator, but he aimed to be an et
gel. and SO great was his success that
was said in one week to have had the
and letters from persons who had been bl
ed by his ministry. His work was pre-,
ing, and he knew it. The physl,ians o
prescribed for him perpetual blister.
said he had tried perpetual preaching.
FUND it answered as well. When win
came to stop his Journeys, be mournei 6,
it like smitten child and when spring
turned, he bounded on to his beloved labt
He said he hoped to die in the pulpit, or
least soon after he came out of it. AT
thirty four years of successful labor, /
evsnyel gathered himself up for his final q
course. The people listened long, As if II
knew that for another Elijah there wait
chariot Of fire. He then requested anot
minister to speak to them, and with the c.
die in his hand wss ascending the stairs,
suddenly he turned, as if with sense
mortalitv rapidly finishing. and Of mon.
more precious than gold, and addressed II
from the stairs until the candle burned de-
into the socket As he held it in his hand
The next morning he was not. In the MI
the messenger came. and like his Master,
ascended from mountain of prayer. Sn5
was George Whitfield, and ages yet unbor
as they read the moql of his life. will bic
God for that prince 9fpreachers, that mobiles
grandest emblem OF the revelation angel q
ing in the midst of heaven with the eve
lasting Gospel If peace. - Punshon's Lscts
on :. Wesley and his T1mes"
That Mother can forget her suckli