'lR4q:tew: ac*ooaat. THITASDAY, OCTOBER 23;161. aIIEtILLITIODZ. • [From the Daily :fate.] . The Preachingi.oftWhititeld. , _ 1 130.1-ons 3. , mblin Is. •_. . • ' . The era mars -ea by - the Preaching of this ~extraordinary min, was one of the most wonderful and illastrious, perhaps, with which the writhes ever been favored, en lightened, and &domed, ; I From the day' of his embarkation for ' America in December 1737, until his death nt Newburyport in 1770, bis fame as "the • Prince of Preachers," increased dally, nay I (Italy. - - • Whether on S . hiPaiatird; itinong file slaves of Georgia, the imbidare And statesmen of England, tho.tasnufactureis t et Manchester, the merchantptices,of New Turk, the stur dy yeomanry of New Hampshire, or the strolling players.of Leidesletsliire or Moor `fields, he was\ thdliame eloquent expolider of Ditine truth, the same winning and persuasive disciple, the ;same winked, zeal .us and heroic Min. Nailing could deter hint from his darling eriteiPrize—the' sale vation of souls. -The yeomanry' of England tneimeed him, the boothplayers and moun tebanks of Hatiapton ..Common devised nohemes to interrupt and disdninfit him. Men, at the cornaieneement of his disetior ses, settively a sound could' be heard of his erect, yet manly , dad comnaanding Voice. llis - impassionedgesturei betokened the ri : log fervor, his whole fianie seemed to par take of the zeatand ene.rgY of his heart. Thousatitis attended his - preachiti„,m. Upon occasion, at Gloucestershire, 'he preach .. , eel to twelve thousand attentive hearers. and at his farewell sermon delivered- at Boston i-t October, 17.19, ,his audianceSuumbared almost twenty thotisand. • Airing seasons of great Silt pourings of Divine .Graee, he preached dully. His rust effective sermons were delivered at *ix in the meriting, o Monday,..,Tuesday, Wetincsdarand—Thu shay, 'of successive weeks. i. In ;his;progress and itineration tiireugh . Pennsylvania, Now Jersey, anti the colmsnies nu the Atlantic seaboard, it was his custiona to gather the. people in the fields and on the wharves, and: there pivaelr to .:oun the love of his Lard , and 11Iaster.-- 1 lis voice rose with the dignity of his Sub ject, heaved - like the ocean, was clear and tiets:ca!, and iinpressed hearts_as much by if., lively .symplionies,as its seething rebukes '3.iii thrilling =pings. 1 " His ceaseless labors greatly impaired his health and caused his followers much alarm; but lie says in a letter to James Henry, " Cl4i - st's latmers must live by mirieles for Gni onlyknows what 1 daily endure, end yet the pu pit es my cure." His was the preaching at earnest affec ting love. ,_ _ The rugged wayfarer loved to attend it, the sea- to s sed . mariner bent t o 1 i catch a syllable of his rich - and •holy elo tpuine, i e, , the enervated slaves of Georgia Hs- 1 trued w ith attention skin to inspiration to' ' .-very sermon which be preached. The de eire,and love of hearing him was never sat iated by gratification : and seemed to in- .trease, rather thaii decrease, by every new, impoly,r Hume, the• infidel, was asked his .pininn ;of Whitfield's preaching, His re-: -ply was; 7ip is worth while to go twenty voila CO, bear hitn," and the recited the fol- Ile iag `passage of:a cerrnon delivered in his presence, as an evidence thereof. "The arteittlant angel is just about to leave the threshold and ascend to heaven, aid shall lie ascend , and not bear.with 'him =the news of one sinner among, all this Multitude. re- , r!aiinedlirm the error of his Nyays ? Stop l ere you enter the cored, portal!, and yet ' carry with yen the news of one sinner enn verted to God.' The power of tie, Holy 1 - i Spirit evidently necompanied the , irord preaehe f il. 'Strange and ludielrous scenes, instead of,Confusing, oily fureishing point. and beauty to his eletrant and nidGterly ap peals. i The players 'of' I\l°6i-fields, who through along serios of years:lad erected togitfis for their exhibitions during the ho liday seusat, felt a great diminution oftbeii• iirdis on ace - Dont of the preaching of "li'llitfle;ld, in afield adjacent., They em played a recruiting sergent with drums, to pass• throng!' the assemblage, And _thereby create diseriler. But Whitfield 'preached laden and louder, until the ,players and letrlecildn's broke -up in confusinn, and left the'preacher arid his hearers to the quiet and seclusion ',they coveted: Whitfield saysteterring t',l) this occasion; -'I received, 1• belieie, a thou'and notes froth' persons o ode r ennvietion, and soon after upwards 4" three bemired were received into the Socie - ty. in 'one day." His preaching was delightful yet effectual, and yet - no show of tfeete'tion or'conscious pre-eminence, ti t her 'Oral orinteleetual, marked the deliv ery •of his message. His voioe by its sweet nnd'geptle ;intonations, added power and ffeet tn the words uttered. 'llis gestures were orantifur and _beautiful, his manner .iignified yet pleaSant. Christ and him eruclued was hisloveliest, most eudeariti; T Ileitie., GeThoiaorelhim in, his glorims ersd iinmermi.mission, inasmuch as he hon ored Christ. - r , i Thci Svroril mid the Mess. • Thefollowing , beautirul etti iliaact; ilhistra 'ling powerf ul manner the mivantige!= ..r priniine to mankind., it; froinan essay by T hi.inas Carlyle; in the "British Review,' ..tuliliaited . ikettrV twenty -years ; agn, - whn noel writer clothed hiaidee in plaial.:4lih,:lind • worts; could hp nid without in Weight - 11M. the mystariei 4 I'..tallecendentillism ' Tauter a le had hushed budding . tlyfunlid _of seventy - thOuSand human ttultr, and was , seen standing at the gate of :J)innaseusi glittering his_stoel, with"his . .shoulder, - till Kts I.9sts filed out w nevictories and new ear -I,dl,ti..;tlio—p-ailtiolier On night have fancied I , 4ut: : usiure.was in. let _death throes, for and, , disßuirhad taken phssossioa of rt:,o eUrtia - -414 sat) of maahbool.seemod set. -blood.— Tit it might-he