4© September 1748. 



other talents fo well adapted to the inteleds 

 of his hearers, made him fo popular that he 

 frequently, efpecially in the two firft 

 years, got from eight thoufand to twenty 

 thoufand hearers in the fields. His inten- 

 tion in thefe travels, was to collect money 

 for an orphans hofpital which had been 

 ereded in Georgia. He here frequently 

 colled:ed feventy pounds fterling at onefer-r 

 rnon j nay, at two fermons which he 

 preached in the year 1740, both on one 

 funday, at Fhiladelphiay he got an hundred 

 and fifty pounds. The profelytes of this 

 man, or the above-mentioned new-lights^ 

 are at prefent merely a feft of preibyterians. 

 For though Whitejield was originally a 

 clergyman o'i the EngiiJJ:) church, yet he 

 deviated by little and little from her 

 doctrines; and on arriving in the year 1744 

 at Bojion in New England j he difputed with 

 the Preibyterians about their doctrines, {o 

 much that he almoft entirely embraced 

 them. For Whitejield w^s no great difpu- 

 tant, and could therefore eafily be led by 

 thefe cunning people, whitherfoever they 

 would have him. This likewife during his 

 latter rtay in A?nerica caufed his audience 

 to be lefs numerous than during the firft. 

 The new-lights built firft in the year 1741, 

 a great houfe in the weftern part of the 



town. 



