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professed to be converted. This day of the Lord's power will never be forgotten by many who were
present.
There were about 20 persons more who were converted in the course of that week, and the
heavenly flame began to spread through the town pretty generally; and many of the people began to
inquire the way to heaven, with their faces thitherward.
The Sunday following there was preaching in the Market-house on Howard's-hill, at 5 o'clock,
where some thousands of people attended. The presence and power of God was wonderfully
displayed among the people, and hundreds were bathed in tears. We afterwards found out 15 persons
that were awakened and brought to the knowledge of the truth by that sermon. From that time the
revival of religion became more general in Baltimore.
Some of the young men in Cokesbury college were also stirred up to seek religion.
The preachers were uncommonly zealous; but none of them so much and so heartily engaged as
the preachers in the South parts of the connection; where the greatest displays of the divine presence
had been made manifest. Yet in every place the preachers were encouraged, and their expectations
were raised, and they were looking out for greater depths of grace in themselves, and in their hearers.
And the Lord gave them seals to their ministry, and souls for their hire.
In 1789 we had eleven conferences, which were as follows.
The thirtieth conference was held in Georgia on the 9th of March.
The thirty-first in Charleston, on the 17th of March.
The thirty-second at M'Knight's meeting house, on the Yadkin river, in North Carolina, on the
11th of April.
The thirty-third in Petersburg, on the 18th of April.
The thirty-fourth at Leesburg, on the 28th of April.
The thirty-fifth in Baltimore, on the 4th of May.
The thirty-sixth at Cokesbury, on the 9th of May.
The thirty-seventh at Chestertown, on the 13th of May.
The thirty-eighth at Philadelphia, on the 18th of May.
The thirty-ninth at Trenton, New-Jersey, on the 23d of May.
The fortieth in New York, on the 28th of May.