CHAPTER V. 



His eyes diffuse a venerable grace, 



And charity itself is in his face. 



Humble and meek, learned, pious, prudent, just, 



Of good report, and faithful to his trust ; 



Vigilant, sober, watchful of his charge, 



Who feeds his sheep, and other folds enlarge. 



(Emily Wesley.) 



IT is a remarkable fact that at the very time Mr. 

 Whitefield, who embarked September 4, 1769, was 

 making his seventh and last voyage to America, Bi'ck- 

 ard Boardman and Joseph Pilmoor, the first two mis- 

 sionaries sent out by Mr. Wesley, were being borne, 

 through the same storms and tempests, to the same 

 field of labor. Mr. Whitefield's work was indeed 

 nearly ended; but he had prepared the way for Mr. 

 Wesley's preachers and for founding a Church, now 

 the largest on the American continent. In his last 

 letter to Mr. Whitefield, this earnest request is made 

 by Mr. Wesley: " For the present, I must beg of you to 

 supply my lack of service by encouraging our preach- 

 ers as you judge best, who are as yet comparatively 

 young and inexperienced, by giving them such advices 

 as you think proper, and above all by exhorting them 

 not only to love one another, but, if it be possible, as 

 much as lies in them, to live peaceably with all men." 

 ' In pursuance of a plan of operations formed by Mr. 

 Boardman and Mr. Pilmoor, the latter set out in the 

 month of April, 1772, on a journey to the South, in 

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