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mentally to know — Charles on Sunday, May 21, and 

 John on Wednesday evening, May 23, 1738 — the truth 

 of the doctrine of present salvation from the guilt and 

 power of sin by faith in the Lord Jesus. The for- 

 mer had preached salvation by faith, in Westminster 

 Abbey, and the latter had preached before the univer- 

 sity in St. Mary's, Oxford, his memorable sermon from 

 Eph. ii. 8: "By grace are ye saved through faith." A 

 few months later Whitefield was led to embrace the 

 same doctrine, and henceforward, equally with the 

 Wesleys, nevQT ceased to expound and to enforce the 

 text of the inspired apostle, " To him that worketh not, 

 but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his 

 faith is counted for righteousness" (Rom. iv. 5). The 

 new doctrines he preached, and the manner in which 

 he preached them, produced a sensation so strong that 

 the tide of clerical opinion in England was turned 

 against him, and he found himself excluded, with the 

 Wesleys, from most of the churches. After the ex- 

 ample, therefore, of the Saviour, who had a mountain 

 for his pulpit, and the heavens for his sounding-board, 

 he began to preach on Hannam Mount, on the south 

 of Kingswood, under a sycamore-tree, and found his 

 audience, in a short time, increased to twenty thou- 

 sand persons. He did the same at Moorfields, Ken- 

 sington, and Blackheath, and thousands everywhere 

 gathered to his ministry, and were brought into sav- 

 ing contact with the truth. 



After obtaining from the trustees of the colony a 

 grant of five hundred acres of land for his Orphan 

 House, and making collections which amounted to 

 upward of a thousand pounds, Mr. Whitefield set sail 

 again, August 14, 1739, accompanied by his friend 

 William Seward and others, and after a passage of 



