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Excerpt from Worcester Methodism: Its Beginnings; A Paper Read Before the N. E. M. E. Historical Society, and the Worcester Society of Antiquity
The population of Worcester in 1740 could not have been more than 1000, since in 1763 it was but 1478, and 1740 was only twenty-seven years after the permanent settlement of the place; and that thousands should have gathered to hear the Itinerant is the best possible comment on his wonderful fame. Nor was it on the Sabbath, when men had leisure but it was in the middle of the week, in the busy Fall month of October. Under whatever denominational name Whitefield made his jour neys in this country, we all know that his ways and manners were eminently Methodistic. To a people long lulled into fancied security, his eloquence came with the force of revelation. No wonder that men left their work and followed after him to hang upon the music of his speech. We are told that his meeting With Edwards at Northampton, was like putting fire to powder; nor is it strange, for in a long period of years, these two men seem to be almost the only instances of in?ammable matter amid the general spiritual dulness and heaviness that pervaded New England.
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