SELINA, COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON, Bishop Benson on the subject,-towhich she readily agreed. Lord Huntingdon sent, accordingly, for the Bishop, desiring that he would reason with her ladyship on her unnecessary strictness of conduct and sentiments. During the conversation which resulted between that prelate and Lady Huntingdon, she gained the advantage of the argument, and " pressed him so hard with articles and homilies, and so plainly and faithfully urged upon him the awful responsibility of his station under the Great Head of the Church, Jesus Christ, that his temper was ruffled." Rising in haste to depart, he bitterly lamented that he had ever " laid hands" on George Whitfield, to whom he erroneously imputed the change wrought in her heart. Calling him back, Lady Huntingdon exclaimed, " My lord, mark my words : when you come upon your dying bed, that will be one of the few ordinations you will reflect uponwith complacency." And her prediction was fulfilled; for when the Bishop was near death, he sent ten guineas to George Whitfield, as a token of his favour and approbation, and begged to be remembered by him in his prayers. So little did Lord Huntingdon listen to those who wished to fill his mind with prejudices against his lady, that he soon accompanied her to hear the Methodist preachers, paying the utmost attention both to their discourses and to those of various other ministers of the Gospel, whom he hospitably 12
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