Every honest person there had to pass judgment on himself.
"It was difficult to close that Meeting.

The truth was setting men free.

Many wept and prayed and submitted to God, and some fairly howled at the revelation God gave them of their character and conduct.

It has been my privilege to hear such preachers as Beecher, Matthew, Simpson, and Phillips Brooks, and such orators as Wendell Phillips and Gough; but The General is the greatest master of assemblies I ever met.

He played on those vast audiences of judges, lawyers, ministers, business and working men as Ole Bull played on the violin.