jj SELINA, COUNTESS OF HUNTLNGDON, your revilers." Many conversations on the subject passed between them, and once he asked her, how she reconciled praying to God for particular blessings, with absolute resignation to the DivineWill? "Very easily," rejoined her ladyship ; " just as if I were to offer a petition to a monarch, of whose kindness and wisdom I had the highest opinion. In such a case, my language would be, I wish you to bestow on me such or such a favour; but your Majesty knows better than I, how far it would be agreeable to you, or right in itself to grant my desire. I therefore content myself with humbly presenting my petition, and leave the event of it entirely to you." She vainly hoped to touch the heart of the selfish and polite Chesterfield, who used impiously to call death -" a leap in the dark," obstinately refusing the Light which would have illumined the way. LikeBolingbroke, however, he respected the opinions which he would not bring himself to acknowledge the truth of; and once even sent the Countess a subscription towards building a chapel, earnestly begging her, at the same time, not to expose him to laughter by revealing the fact ! His wife was not so impracticable a subject. Every Thursday and Sabbath evening the drawing- room of Lady Huntingdon being opened to those who wished to hear the Gospel, fashionable audiences were accustomed to assemble there. The Countess having, in 1744, formed the acquaintance of that most remarkable man, George Whitfield, she invited 20
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