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PREFACE.

GEORGE WHITEFIELD.

CHAPTER I.

MORAL STATE OF GREAT BRITAIN IN THE EARLY PART OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY—WHITEFIELD FROM HIS BIRTH TO HIS FIRST SERMON.

CHAPTER II.

WHITEFIELD'S SUCCESS AS A PREACHER IN ENGLAND—FIRST VISIT TO AMERICA. 1736-1738.

CHAPTER III.

OPEN-AIR PREACHING IN ENGLAND AND WALES—ERECTION OF THE TABERNACLE IN LONDON. 1738-1739.

CHAPTER IV.

WHITEFIELD'S SECOND VISIT TO AMERICA. 1739, 1740.

CHAPTER V.

CONTINUATION OF WHITEFIELD'S SECOND VISIT TO AMERICA. 1740.

CHAPTER VI.

WHITEFIELD'S FIRST VISIT TO NEW ENGLAND. SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER, 1740.

CHAPTER VII.

LABORS IN NEW YORK AND THE MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN STATES. 1740, 1741.

CHAPTER VIII.

FIRST AND SECOND VISITS TO SCOTLAND—LABORS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 1740-1744.

CHAPTER IX.

WHITEFIELD'S SECOND VISIT TO NEW ENGLAND. 1744, 1745.

CHAPTER X.

FROM HIS LEAVING NEW ENGLAND TILL HIS ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND—LABORS IN THE MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN STATES—THE BERMUDAS. 1745-1748.

CHAPTER XI.

LABORS IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND—CHAPLAIN TO LADY HUNTINGDON. 1748, 1749.

CHAPTER XII.

LABORS IN GREAT BRITAIN—FOURTH VISIT TO AMERICA—NEW TABERNACLE IN LONDON, AND TABERNACLE AT BRISTOL. 1750-1754.

CHAPTER XIII.

FIFTH VISIT TO AMERICA—RENEWED LABORS IN GREAT BRITAIN—TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD CHAPEL. 1754-1763.

CHAPTER XIV.

SIXTH VISIT AND LABORS IN AMERICA—RENEWED LABORS IN GREAT BRITAIN. 1763-1767.

CHAPTER XV.

HIS LAST LABORS IN GREAT BRITAIN—COLLEGE AT TREVECCA—EARL OF BUCHAN—TUNBRIDGE WELLS. 1767-1769.

CHAPTER XVI.

SEVENTH VISIT AND LABORS IN AMERICA—DEATH. 1769, 1770.

CHAPTER XVII.

TESTIMONIES AND FACTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF WHITEFIELD'S CHARACTER.

CHAPTER XVIII.

CHARACTER OF WHITEFIELD AS A PREACHER—CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATIONS.