Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral · Character
George Whitefield
A celebrated evangelist whose death silences a voice that once inflamed hearts, mourned by thousands he drew to devotion on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Also known as the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, Whitefield
First appearance: On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770
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Mentioned in the context of his death and the elegy written in his honor.
Whitefield is the era's most famous preacher, a man whose sermons 'in unequal'd accents flow'd' and whose prayers wrestled with God by night. His death leaves Americans, orphans, and the Countess of Huntingdon to grieve a figure they called more than a father. The elegy turns loss into vision, imagining him sailing to Zion while charging the living to take up the Saviour he offered to the wretched, the starving, and the Africans alike.
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