If you have the opportunity, you should read the 2 volume work on George Whitefield by Arnold Dallimore. It is the definitive resource on Whitefield, taking 30 years to complete.
On Whitefield, Charles Wesley wrote...
Though long by following multitudes admired,
No party for himself he e’er desired;
His one desire, to make the Saviour known,
To magnify the name of Christ alone;
If others strove who should the greatest be,
No lover of pre-eminence was he,
Nor envied those his Lord vouchsafed to bless,
But joy’d in theirs, as in his own success,
His friends in honour to himself preferr’d,
And least of all in his own eyes appear’d.
The Journal of Charles Wesley, Vol. 2, p 428.Perhaps, one day I will write a longer post worthy of the name Whitefield. But, a question we can take away is this. What will friends say of us and the race that we have run? Would they say that our ONE desire was to make the Saviour known? To magnify the name of Christ alone?
