THE SERVANT OF GOD. In order to provide proper persons for the work, she retired, at the close of 1767, to Trevecca, in South Wales, where she founded a College for training young men to the dutiesof the ministry, The plan of this institution was, that during three years the students were to be boarded and educated, and supplied annually with a suit of clothes at her lady- ship's expense ; at the end of that time, they were either to take orders in the Established Church, or enter the ministry among Dissenters of any denomination preferred by them. This College answered her expectations admirably ; for her wisdom and experience enabled her to manage it with the utmost discretion ; the pecuniary charges were considerable, but different liberal friends con- tributed largely to lighten the burden. Lady Hun- tingdon devoted the entire of her jointure - twelve thousand a-year -to the Gospel ; yet it has been remarked as a matter of surprise that she was able to discharge all her engagements. But the fervent zeal which burned in her bosom to make known the glad tidings of the grace of God " no disappoint- ment quenched, no labours slackened, no opposition discouraged, no progress of years abated." Desirous of affording to the poor that opportunity of hearing the Word which she had procured in her own drawing-room for the rich, Lady Huntingdon opened various places of worship in the metropolis, the most remarkable of which were Spa Fields and Sion Chapels. The latter, under the name of the 27
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