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yet had received only deacon's orders and wished to 

 be ordained priest; and as it was necessary moreover 

 to make collections for his Orphan House, he left Mr. 

 Habersham at Savannah and went to Charleston to 

 embark for England. 



Charles Delamotte had taken leave of the colony on 

 the 2d of June— about a month after Mr. Whitefield' s 

 arrival. The poor people lamented the loss of him 

 and went to the water-side to take a last farewell. 

 After a long life of piety and peace, he died at Bar- 

 row-upon-Humber in 1796. 



During this first visit of Mr. Whitefield to South 

 Carolina, he was received with kindness by Commis- 

 sary Garden, who cordially invited him twice into his 

 pulpit, and assured him that he would defend him 

 with his life and property, should the same arbitrary 

 proceedings ever be commenced against him which Mr. 

 Wesley had met with in Georgia. The people at first 

 despised his youth, but his engaging address soon 

 gained him general esteem, and Mr. Garden thanked 

 him cordially for the service he had rendered. He 

 embarked for England, September 6, and reached 

 London, December 8, 1738. 



Mr. Whitefield made in all seven voyages to Amer- 

 ica, and fifteen separate visits to South Carolina and 

 Georgia. 



How great, how just thy zeal, advent'rous youth, 

 To spread, in heathen lands, the light of truth ! 

 Go, loved of Heaven ! with every grace refined, 

 Inform, enrapture each dark Indian's mind; 

 Grateful, as when to realms long hid from day 

 The cheerful dawn foreshows the solar ray. 



How great thy charity ! whose large embrace 

 Intends th' eternal weal of all thy race; 



