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 between the suns. And yet Bishop Chandler of Georgia probably spoke the words of truth from the pulpit of Wesley Monumental Church in Savannah, in November, 1899, when he said that "no grander man ever walked these historic streets than John Wesley."

OAKS AT BETHESDA ORPHANAGE, UNDER WHICH WHITEFIELD PREACHED.

George Whitefield was a preacher of such talent that Chesterfield said he had never listened to so eloquent a man. Benjamin Franklin regarded him as a model of logic and power. This good Oxford graduate was actuated, like Oglethorpe, by the broadest benevo