An irresistible impulse now urged him to impart to others the blessing of which he was himself possessed.

[254] He joined the Baptists, and became a preacher and writer.

His education had been that of a mechanic.

He knew no language but the English, as it was spoken by the common people.
He had studied no great model of composition, with the exception, an important exception undoubtedly, of our noble translation of the Bible.
His spelling was bad.

He frequently transgressed the rules of grammar.
Yet his native force of genius, and his experimental knowledge of all the religious passions, from despair to ecstasy, amply supplied in him the want of learning.