Section 15
The whole world is now my parish. Wheresoever my Master calls me I am ready to go and preach the everlasting Gospel.
(Whitefield made this statement while on his voyage to America in 1739. And he made it again nearly thirty years later—not long before his death. And between the two, with his lifetime of labor—seven visits to America, fifteen to Scotland, two to Ireland, one each to Gibraltar, Bermuda, and Holland, together with attempts to reach Canada and the West Indies, preaching to uncounted numbers of mankind—he endeavored mightily to fulfill his declaration.)