Section 4
If ever philanthropy burned in the human heart with pure and intense flame, embracing the whole family of man in the spirit of universal charity, it was in the heart of George Whitefield. 'He loved the world that hated him.' He had no preferences but in favour of the ignorant, the miserable and the poor. In their cause he shrank from no privation, and declined neither insult nor hostility. To such wrongs he opposed the weapons of an all-enduringmeekness and a love which would not be repulsed. The springs of his benevolence were inexhaustible and could not choose but flow.
Sir James Stephen
Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography
1883
