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GEORGE U'MTEFIELD
might draw them. He was chiefly the means of rejuvenating
the Episcopal, the Independent, the Presbyterian, and the
Baptist Churches ; even the Society of Friends was quickened
by his labours, and he frequently preached for Wesley's
societies. The catholic spirit of the work is perhaps more
than the work itself. He also founded churches and inaugu-
rated religious revolutions by a sermon. His last sermons,
as we have seen, touched the heart of a young man named
Randall; his death sealed all the holy impressions as with the
mark of God ;
and that young man shortly afterwards founded
in the United States the Free-will Baptist Church, a Church
always opposed to slavery, and now nearly one hundred
thousand members strong. His works do follow him. Only
this year (1900) the pastor of Tottenham Court Road Chapel
received a donation towards the cost of rebuilding that structure
from a gentleman in Australia who had been converted in
that colony by reading one of Whitefield's sermons.
Could his hand add one word to this record of his life and
its fruits, it would be this— ' Grace !
Grace
!
Grace
!
'
For
his sake, then, and especially for the sake of Him who came
bringing grace and truth with Him, it shall be inscribed as the
last word here—GRACE.