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His fourth appointment was at Brother J. Hersey's, we suppose. Here the congregation was large,
and the meeting was powerful: some crying aloud for mercy. After sermon, a dear old lady said to
him, "This is the gospel trump, I heard it sounded by Mr. Whitefield twenty-five years ago." At his
next appointment he preached to ten hard-hearted sinners to little effect.
As his sixth appointment was in a Presbyterian settlement, we fix it in the old White Clay Creek
Presbyterian congregation, near Newark, Del. Stopping to inquire the way a man offered to go with
him, telling him there is to be a Methodist preacher there, and our preacher is to be there to trap him
in his discourse. They were joined by the constable of the place, who swore bitterly that the
Methodist preacher (not thinking that he was riding by his side) should go to jail that day. There was
a large congregation. The man of the house requested him to preach in favor of the war, as it was in
a Presbyterian neighborhood. He replied that he would preach as God directed him. He began, having
the constable just before him; who, as soon as he saw that the preacher had heard his profane
conversation on his way to the meeting, his countenance fell and he turned pale. Brave man! the
power of God rested on the speaker: there was trembling, and flowing tears in abundance. After
leaving his name with them at the request of some of them, he departed from them unhurt. Here
Adam Cloud joined him to go round the circuit with him.
Seventh -- this was in Chester county, not far from Unionville. It was a powerful meeting; and
Brother Cloud was greatly tried with the cries of the people.
His eighth appointment was in Goshen, at the Valley school house, which was the preaching
house then. This appointment is now called the Grove. Here, two fell under his powerful preaching
and found peace to their souls. He went home with Brother Daniel Meredith, who lived near "The
Ship" tavern on the Lancaster turnpike, where he preached his ninth discourse: some cried aloud for
mercy, and two fell to the floor. When Brother Cloud desired him to quiet the people, he replied, "I
have not learned these people to cry and fall down, as the people of your neighborhood say I have
learned the Jersey people to do."
His tenth appointment was among the Germans near Soudersburg. "Here the Lord wrought
wonders, divers fell to the floor, and several found peace. Many tarried to hear what I had seen
through the land of the wonderful works of God. In family prayer the power of God came upon me,
in such a manner that I lost both the power of my body and the use of my speech, and cried out in
a strange manner. The people, also, cried aloud, and continued all night in prayer."
At the Rev. Martin Boehm's he filled his eleventh appointment. Here he had one of his most
remarkable meetings. It began at 11 o'clock, and ended next morning after sunrise. About twenty of
the Soudersburg Methodist came with him to Mr. Boehm's. He says, "When I came to my
application, the people fell all about the house, and their cries could be heard afar off. The wicked
being alarmed, sprung to the doors in haste, falling over each other in heaps. To drown the cry of
mourners I gave out a hymn. One of our English friends, in attempting to raise it, fell under the table
and lay like a dead man. I gave it out again and asked another to raise it; as soon as he attempted it,
he also, fell. I then undertook to raise it, when the power of God came upon me and I cried out with
amazement. Seeing that I was fighting against God, I did not attempt singing again. Prayer was all
through the house, up stairs and down (it was an old dwelling house now used for religious