O Heavenly Father,” prayed a twenty-two-year-old preacher in London, “for Thy dear Son’s sake, keep me from climbing.” That young preacher was George Whitefield, and he had every reason to fear popularity and promotion. Great crowds were coming to hear him preach the gospel, and hundreds were being converted to faith in Christ. He was the boy wonder of London. His preaching shook both Great Britain and the United States, and the results are still with us. Historians