I have been reading the two volume Dallimore biography of George Whitefield for years now (a little here, a little there). Check out the passion he had for his open-air evangelistic preaching ministry:
"Fear not your weak body; we are immortal till our work is done. Christ's laborers must live by miracle; if not I must not live at all; for God only knows what I daily endure. My continual vomitings almost kill me, yet the pulpit is my cure, so that friends begin to pity me less, and to leave off that ungrateful caution, "Spare thyself!"" (p. 285, vol 2)
"The more we do, the more we may do; every act strengthens the habit; the best preparation for preaching Sunday is to preach every day in the week" (p. 286, vol 2)
Comments