met several anxious persons for prayer and conversation.  In the evening we had announced a public Prayer Meeting.  Before we reached the chapel we could hear the cries and prayers of those already assembled.  On entering, we found a strong man praising God at the top of his voice for hearing his prayer and pardoning his sins.  It was the mason.  He had been under deep concern for three days; had not slept at all the night before, but after a day’s agony, he had found Jesus; and such tumultuous, rapturous joy I think I never witnessed.  Again and again, during the evening, he broke out with a voice that drowned all others, and rose above our songs of praise ascribing glory to Jesus for what He had done for his soul.  There were many other cases of almost equal interest.  The Meeting was not closed until eleven.

“About midnight, the Rev. J. Shone, the minister in charge of the church, was called out to visit a woman who was in great distress.  He afterwards described her agony in seeking, and her joy in finding, the Lord, together with the sympathy and exultation of her friends with her, as one of the most thrilling scenes he ever witnessed.”

In a later report The General wrote:—­

     “Hayle, Cornwall.

“The work of the Lord here goes on gloriously.  The services have progressed with increasing power and success, and now the whole neighbourhood is moved.  Conversion is the topic of conversation in all sorts of society.  Every night, crowds are unable to gain admission to the sanctuary.  The oldest man in the church cannot remember any religious movement of equal power.  During the second week, the Wesleyans opened a large room for united Prayer Meetings at noon; since then, by their invitation, we have on several occasions spoken in their chapels to densely crowded audiences; services being simultaneously conducted in the chapel where the movement originally commenced.  One remarkable and gratifying feature of the work is the large number of men who are found every night amongst those who are anxious.  Never have I seen so many men at the same time smiting their breasts, and crying, ’God be merciful to me a sinner,’ Strong men, old men, young men, weeping like children, broken-hearted on account of their sins.  A number of these are sailors, and scarcely a ship has gone out of this port the last few days without taking among its crew one or more souls newly-born for Heaven.”

Can it be believed that just such victories as these led to the closing of almost all the Churches against him?

“In these days,” The General has more recently written, “it has become almost the fashion for the Churches to hold yearly ‘revival’ or ‘special’ services, but forty years ago they were as unanimously opposed to anything of the kind, and compelled me to gain outside every Church organisation the one liberty I desired—­to seek and save the lost ones, who never enter any place of worship