...Whitefield, breaking off in the middle of a sermon to exclaim, "Stop, Gabriel, stop, ere you enter the sacred portals, and yet carry with you the news of one sinner converted to God!" How cheap it sounds, repeated like that! And yet it nearly made a Methodist of David Hume. Faber, when...

...lifted up his hands and eyes to heaven, and cried aloud, 'Stop, Gabriel, stop, ere you enter the sacred portals, and yet carry with you the news of one sinner converted to God.' This address was accompanied with such animated yet natural action, that it surpassed any thing I ever saw...

...lifting his eyes and hands to heaven, he cried aloud, " Stop, Gabriel ! stop, ere you enter the sacred portals, and yet carry with you the news of one sinner converted to God." " This address," says Hume, " was accompanied with such animated yet natural action, that it surpassed anything...

...all its attributes of wrath and woe. When he cried, "Stop, Gabriel, stop, ere you enter the sacred portals, and yet carry with you the news of one sinner converted to God," the auditors almost fancied that they heard the rustle of the archangel's wing. Hume himself was nearly...

...eyes to heaven, and with gushing tears, cried aloud, ' Stop, Gabriel ! Stop, ere you enter the sacred portals, and yet carry with you the news of one sinner converted to God.' He then, in the most simple but energetic language, described what he called a Savior's dying love...