humble station of a journeyman shoemaker, by great industry, amassed a large fortune and now lives in a splendid style in London containing among other curi-ous and facetious anecdotes, a succinct account of . . . the Methodists. Written by himself. A part of what made his book so successful was his witty (indeed scur-rilous) exposé of the Methodists as one who had been an insider. The cover hinted of kiss-and-tell revelations in the book. For example, he tells a story of the famous Methodist preacher, George Whitefield, out field-preaching. A young woman in the front of the crowd fell backwards, just under the great evangelist, and lay there kicking up her heels. Seeing her in a kind of convul-sion some of the crowd moved to help her and the women drew her petticoat and apron down over her feet, but Whitefield cried out, ‘Let her alone! Let her alone! A glorious sight! A glorious sight!’ meaning of course that it was wonderful to see a soul overwhelmed by spiritual emotion. But the young men construed his meaning somewhat differently and, when the audience could not stop laughing, Whitefield had to dismiss them. According to Lackington, it became a saying among the young men ever after, when reel-ing home from the pub, ‘A glorious sight, A glorious sight!’

DOI link for humble station of a journeyman shoemaker, by great industry, amassed a large fortune and now lives in a splendid style in London containing among other curi-ous and facetious anecdotes, a succinct account of . . . the Methodists. Written by himself. A part of what made his book so successful was his witty (indeed scur-rilous) exposé of the Methodists as one who had been an insider. The cover hinted of kiss-and-tell revelations in the book. For example, he tells a story of the famous Methodist preacher, George Whitefield, out field-preaching. A young woman in the front of the crowd fell backwards, just under the great evangelist, and lay there kicking up her heels. Seeing her in a kind of convul-sion some of the crowd moved to help her and the women drew her petticoat and apron down over her feet, but Whitefield cried out, ‘Let her alone! Let her alone! A glorious sight! A glorious sight!’ meaning of course that it was wonderful to see a soul overwhelmed by spiritual emotion. But the young men construed his meaning somewhat differently and, when the audience could not stop laughing, Whitefield had to dismiss them. According to Lackington, it became a saying among the young men ever after, when reel-ing home from the pub, ‘A glorious sight, A glorious sight!’

humble station of a journeyman shoemaker, by great industry, amassed a large fortune and now lives in a splendid style in London containing among other curi-ous and facetious anecdotes, a succinct account of . . . the Methodists. Written by himself. A part of what made his book so successful was his witty (indeed scur-rilous) exposé of the Methodists as one who had been an insider. The cover hinted of kiss-and-tell revelations in the book. For example, he tells a story of the famous Methodist preacher, George Whitefield, out field-preaching. A young woman in the front of the crowd fell backwards, just under the great evangelist, and lay there kicking up her heels. Seeing her in a kind of convul-sion some of the crowd moved to help her and the women drew her petticoat and apron down over her feet, but Whitefield cried out, ‘Let her alone! Let her alone! A glorious sight! A glorious sight!’ meaning of course that it was wonderful to see a soul overwhelmed by spiritual emotion. But the young men construed his meaning somewhat differently and, when the audience could not stop laughing, Whitefield had to dismiss them. According to Lackington, it became a saying among the young men ever after, when reel-ing home from the pub, ‘A glorious sight, A glorious sight!’