1789 SELINA, COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON. Wonderful Signed Check by Financier of the Great Awakening! EvangelistAnything related to the Countess, who was nearly the sole financier of the Great Awakening, is scarce. She supported Whitefield and the Wesleys without reserve. She founded her own training college for the new evangelists coming to Christ through their ministries. She then built them chapels all across the United Kingdom, nearly exhausting her vast estate. It probably is not too much to say that without her vast investment of resources, the movement
recounting William Wilberforce’s work in Parliament at the time [this was an important year in the quest for abolition]
The Accomplishment of the Scripture Propheices
Revive their drooping graces
further signed on the fore edge Rev:Tho Cursham
1883 in Spurgeon's typical purple ink
As a fellow MP with Wilberforce
One slight point of weakness
Scarce can I forbear saying O that mine were as near its flight
I remain yours with all due respect
dulled on spine but attractive
and other assorted challenges to our view of the goodness of God
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society