Whitefield’s influence resembles the gale sweeping over the
surface of the sea. The effect is instant, and visible to every
sense. But of Wesley’s work the true symbol is the coral reef,
built up slowly, and cell by cell, in the sea depths, over
which the soil forms, and on which great cities will rise and
unborn nations will live. The one stirred the surface; the
other built up from the depths, built deeply, and built for all
time.--W. H. FITCHETT, “Wesley and His Century.”
(1607)
See GREATNESS APPRECIATED.