This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...the glory of Boston, and stood up under an old elm, and preached to more than twenty thousand deeply-affected hearers. Among those who stood in the crowd, on the common, listening intently to the eloquent words of the man of God, was a sweet-tempered, thoughtful, fairhaired, bright-eyed little boy--one of those ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...the glory of Boston, and stood up under an old elm, and preached to more than twenty thousand deeply-affected hearers. Among those who stood in the crowd, on the common, listening intently to the eloquent words of the man of God, was a sweet-tempered, thoughtful, fairhaired, bright-eyed little boy--one of those children who appear transient strangers on earth, and formed for a fairer sky and a milder atmosphere, than surrounds this sublunary world. He stood listening in deep thought, and with an intensity of unearthly interest. At the close of the sermon, those who stood by him observed that he appeared unwell. They took him up, and carried him home to his mother. As they placed him in her arms, he looked up in her face, and in a sweet voice said, " Mother, I want to go to Mr. Whitefield's God and immediately expired. Visits Northampton. Delightful Scenery. From Boston, on his return south, Whitefield visited Northampton, to see Edwards and the revival Church. On his way he passed over the ground where now the traveler may see the loveliest villages and cities, and the most varied landscape in the world--Concord, with its deep and quiet river--the river of peace, the river of " Concord "--and its fields, afterward stained with the blood shed in one of the first battles of the American Revolution; Waltham, with its long, wide street, and grand old elms; Marlboro, with its gentle hills and fairy lake; Worcester, with its romantic undulations of surface, covered with happy homes and gardens of exquisite beauty; Leicester, a little "city on a hill," overlooking the whole country from the Atlantic to the Connecticut; and Brookfield, with its prairie-looking plain and gently-winding rivulet. He preached to people gathered from the surroun...
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Add this copy of Wesley and His Coadjutors to cart. $150.00, very good condition, Sold by Bartleby's Books ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chevy Chase, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1853 by Swormstedt & Poe.
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Seller's Description:
Two volumes. 12mo. 392pp.; 280pp. Frontis. portrait in vol. one. Blind stamped cloth; gilt lettering & decorations on spine of vol. one; copper lettering & decorations on spine of vol. two. Contemporary ownership signature on front endpaper. A very good set.
