THE SERVANT OF GOD. unexpected a salutation from anutter stranger, asked, " What do you know of me ?" " Madam," replied the lady, " I saw you in a dream, three years ago, dressed just as you appear now,"-and she related the history of her dream. In consequence of the acquaintance formed then between them, Lady Huntingdon was made instrumental to the conver- sion of the soul of this lady, who died about a year subsequently, " in the triumph of faith." Lady Huntingdon's son died; and her grief was so great that Whitfield wrote her a letter couched in the most pious and consolatory language, impressing on her mind the necessity of holy submission. While at Brighton, she did her utmost to extend the knowledge of the Gospel among rich and poor ; and built next to her house a little chapel, which was opened in the summer of 1761. This chapel was afterwards enlarged; when not sufficing even then to accommodate the numerous congregation, it was a third time taken down and enlarged. The expenses of this chapel she defrayed by the sale of her jewels, which produced about seven hundred pounds. In 1763 she lost her dear child Selina, who had been one of the six Earls' daughters who had assisted the Princess Augusta in supporting the train of Queen Charlotte at the Coronation, in 1761. The Countess had always been in the habit of paying periodical visits to the " Queen of the Fashionable World," - Bath, - where, upon all 25
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