The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

While preparing for his return he preached to large congregations. It is estimated that throughout his life he preached more than 18000 formal sermons of which seventy-eight have been publiGeorge Whitefieldd In addition to his work in America and England he made fifteen journeys to Scotland—most famously to the "Preaching Braes" of Cambuslang in 1742—two to Ireland and one each to Bermuda Gibraltar and the Netherlands. At an early age he found that he had a passion and talent for acting in the theatre a passion that he would carry on through the very theatrical re-enactments of Bible stories that he told during his sermons.

S. He became perhaps the best-known preacher in Britain and America in the 18th century and because he traveled through all of the American colonies and drew great crowds and media coverage he was one of the most widely recognized public figures in colonial America. George Whitefield (December 27 [O.