CHRISTIAN LEADERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

  { PT.  8 } - When churches and chapels were both closed to him, or were too small to contain his hearers, he was ready and willing to preach in the open air. For thirty-one-years he labored in this way, always proclaiming the same glorious gospel, and always, as far as man's eye can judge, with immense effect. In one single Pentecost Sunday week, after preaching in Moorfields, Whitefield received one thousand letters from people to the Lord's table. In the thirty-four years of his ministry, it is calculated that he preached publicly eighteen thousand times. His traveling was impressive, especially when we consider the roads and means of transportation of his time. He was familiar with perils in the wilderness and perils in the sea ( 2  CORINTHIANS  11:26 ), if ever anyone was in modern times. He visited Scotland fourteen times, and was nowhere more acceptable or useful then he was in that Bible-loving country. He crossed the Atlantic back and forth seven times in m...