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ance, — bold, fervent, pungent and popular in his eloquence; no 

 other uninspired man ever preached to so large assemblies, or 

 enforced the simple truths of the Gospel by motives so persuasive 

 and awful, and with an influence so powerful on the hearts of his 

 hearers. 



He died of Asthma, Sept. 30th, 1770; 



suddenly exchanging his life of unparalleled labors 



for his eternal rest. 



There are two other coffins m the same vault with 

 Mr. Whitefield's, one the Rev. Jonathan Parson's, and 

 the other a poor blind man's, who had a strong desire 

 to be buried with Mr. Whitefield. I have visited the 

 house where Mr. Whitefield died ; and while I trod 

 the very floor of the room in which he breathed his 

 last, I seemed to be walking on holy ground. The 

 house has undergone some considerable repairs, but 

 the old room is still preserved ; the chair in which 

 Mr. Whitefield died is in the Boston Library. One of 

 the principal bones of Whitefield's right arm had been 

 missing from among the remains for a number of 

 years — until last summer, (1849) when the minister 

 of the church, the Rev. Jonathan F. Stearns, received 

 a letter from a gentleman in England, from which the 

 following is an extract : — 



