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For really sustained effort in the oratory line we must go back to the records of those wandering preachers, "Wesley and Whitefield. Wesley, tor example, would address a large assembly at 5 o'clock in the morning and then, ride horseback to his next congregation. He would ride 4000 miles in a yesir and preach two, three, and sometimes four times a day. Whitefield, too, had a "pulse in his tongue." He spoke about 40 hours a week in public, and his evenings were spent in "ottering up prayers and intercessions, or in singing nvmns in every bouse to which he was invited."

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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 26 December 1924, Page 17

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Untitled Press, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 26 December 1924, Page 17

Untitled Press, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 26 December 1924, Page 17