astonishing influence on the minds of thousands, there can be
no doubt. They are of a high order.'--_Life of Lady Huntingdon_, i.
450.]

[Footnote 753: See _Memoirs of the Rev. C. Wesley_, by Thomas Jackson,
_passim_.]

[Footnote 754: See Tyerman's _Life of John Wesley_, vol. iii. p. 310.]

[Footnote 755: This was written before the author had read Mr. Tyerman's
_Life of Whitefield_; indeed, before that life was published. Mr.
Tyerman informs us that the dispute arose because some of the preachers
informed Wesley that his brother Charles did not enforce discipline so
strictly as himself, and that Charles agreed with Whitefield 'touching
perseverance, at least, if not predestination too.'--Tyerman's _Life of
Whitefield_, ii. 288.]

[Footnote 756: Gledstone's _Life of Whitefield_, p. 439, but surely Mr.
Gledstone is scarcely justified in adding quite gratuitously, 'John
Wesley was not a man with whom it was easy to be on good terms; his
lofty claims must have fretted his brother and created uneasiness.'
Charles Wesley was quite equal to cope with John if he had preferred any
'lofty claims' beyond those which an elder brother might naturally have
upon a younger. But, in point of fact, there is no trace of any such
rivalry between the brothers.]

[Footnote 757: See _Life and Times of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon_,
by a member of the houses of Shirley and Hastings, vol. ii. pp. 71, 72.]

[Footnote 758: For a fuller list of the 'brilliant assemblies' which
Lady Huntingdon gathered together, see Tyerman's _Life of Whitefield_,
ii. 209, &c., and 407, &c. Mr. Tyerman takes a more hopeful view of the
good that was done among these classes than is taken in the text.]

[Footnote 759: See Gledstone's _Life of Whitefield_, p. 304.]

[Footnote 760: _Letters of Horace Walpole_, from 1744 to 1753.]

[Footnote 761: Not so Garrick's brother actor, Foote. The 'Minor' was a
cruel attack upon Whitefield. Foote spoke an epilogue in the character
of Whitefield, 'whom he dressed and imitated to the life.'--(See
Forster's _Essays_, 'Samuel Foote.') Foote defended himself on the
ground that Whitefield was 'ever profaning the name of God with
blasphemous nonsense,' &c.]

[Footnote 762: _Marchmont Papers_, ii. 377.]

[Footnote 763: _Lady Huntingdon's Life_ (_ut supra_), ii. 379.]

[Footnote 764: See the _Christian Observer_, Oct. 1857, p. 707.]

[Footnote 765: Indeed, Lady Huntingdon appears to have been the
originator of lay preac