A message from George Whitefield, printed in, The Gospel of God’s Love, page 315.
“I have been present with you since your return from the church and during your conversations. I heard what the preacher said, and was particularly interested in his ideas about the coming of the great “world teacher.” His ideas of what constituted greatness, arose from his conception of human greatness. The teacher will not be a great preacher, or a magnificent specimen of physical development, with a wonderful voice, but a person who can reveal to the world the truths of the Father regarding the relationship of humans to God, and the plan provided for the redemption and reconcilliation of mortals.
“It is a fact that the regeneration of the human soul is caused more by the quiet meditations of mortals on the truths of the Father, and by silent longings of the soul, than by the emotions that arise from the fervid and persuasive sermons of preachers and evangelists. These later may arouse the dead soul to a realization of their need to reconcile with God, but not so often do these emotions bring the soul into rapport or union with the Father, as do the silent meditations of which I speak. There must be true soul longings and aspirations for the Love of the Father and these longings do not generally arise from the emotions produced, especially where such emotions are of fear, created by the picturing of an angry and vengful God.
“In the silence of the home chamber, where the person is alone with God, and lets their longings go out to the Father for the bestowal of His Love, does this Divine Love come in its regenerating power – just between the mortal and God.
“I am told that Jesus, when on earth, never tried to create excitement in this manner, but his teachings were as a ‘still small voice’ that enters the soul and draws it to a contemplation of the Father’s Love, with all the power of the souls’ longings. The preachers conceptions were not correct; while there will be revelations of Truth, there will be no single “world teacher,” but many revealers of truth will be disclosed. Of course these truths will need to be preached and taught to the people, but this will not be done by any one teacher, but by many followers who have progressed in God’s transforming Love.” Amen