They laughed, they wept, they hung their heads with conviction, their bosoms heaved with emotions, they were convinced, convicted, and a multitude were converted.

I think at one time there could not have been less than 3,000 eyes brimming with tears.

He uncovered sin and made it appear as it is, utterly without excuse, and utterly loathsome; and then he revealed the love and sympathy and helpfulness of Christ, till many could not resist, but had to yield.
"A lawyer said to me the next day that the sermons and lecture were the most wonderful he had ever heard.

Another lawyer who had been to each Meeting stayed in his place till the very close on Sunday night, saying that he could not tear himself away.
"The common people heard him gladly, and the uncommon people were overwhelmed with admiration, and conviction.

A young lady, belonging to one of the best families in the city, just home from Paris, where she had been studying art, heard him and could not refrain from leaving the box in which she sat and going to the Penitent-Form.