08 July 2011

Content to Wait

George Whitefield, in a letter to an American correspondent concerned about a rash of slanderous public statements about Whitefield:
I am content to wait till the judgment day for the clearing up of my character; and after I am dead I desire no other epitaph than this, 'Here lies G.W. What sort of a man he was the great day will discover.'
--quoted in Arnold Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the 18th Century Revival (2 vols; Banner of Truth, 1970, 1980), 2:258

2 comments:

Gavin Ortlund said...

I love that. Thanks.

Joab Benaiah Rico said...

Dallimore's volumes on Bro Whit are priceless. Bless you brothers.