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286 GEORGE WHITEFIELD
and also his early Sunday morning preaching-room, while in
that city ; and when she died he believed that she had entered
into 'the rest that remaineth for the people of God.' The
face of Ralph Erskine is not there. His death occurred on
November 6, 1752; and when the intelligence was brought to
Ebenezer, he said with great emotion, 'And is Ralph gone?
He has twice got the start of me ; he was first in Christ, and
now he is first in glory.' But the start was not a long one ;
for Ebenezer Erskine was now an old man, and worn with
heavy labours. On June 2, 1754, he followed his brother
quietly and gently ; as one sleeping and resting himself after
toil, he went to his reward.