melting, moving time.

"I was kneeling, talking to a Penitent, when somebody touched me on
the shoulder, and said, 'Here is a lady who has come to seek
Salvation. Her son came to hear you at Spalding, and was induced to
seek the Saviour, and now she has come to hear you, and she wants
Salvation, too." The Lord had mercy upon her, and she went away
rejoicing.

"At Swineshead Bridge--the very name gives some idea of the utterly
rural character of the population--I was to preach on three
successive evenings, in the hope of promoting a Revival there. Many
things seemed to be against the project; but the Lord was for us.
Two people came out on the Monday evening, and God saved them both.
This raised our faith and cheered our spirits, especially as we
knew that several more souls were in distress.

"On the Tuesday the congregation was better. The news had spread
that the Lord was saving, and that seldom fails to bring a crowd
wherever it may be. That evening the word was with power, and six
souls cried for mercy. At the earnest solicitations of the people,
I decided to stay the remainder of the week, and urged them to pray
earnestly, with the result that many more sought and found
Salvation, and the little Society was nearly doubled.

"On the Saturday, just before I started home on the omnibus, a
plain, unsophisticated Christian came and said, 'O sir, let me have
hold of your hand.' When he had seized it between both his, with
tears streaming down his face, he said, 'Glory be to God that ever
you came here. My wife before her conversion was a cruel
persecutor, and a sharp thorn in my side. She would go home from
the Prayer Meeting before me, and as full of the Devil as possible;
she would oppose and revile me; but now, sir, she is just the
contrary, and my house, instead of being a little Hell has become a
little Paradise.' This was only one of a number of cases in which
husbands rejoiced over wives, and wives over husbands, for whom
they had long prayed, being saved.

"I shall always remember with pleasure the week I spent at
Swineshead Bridge, because I prayed more and preached with more of
the spirit of expectation and faith, and then saw more success
than in any previous week of my life. I dwell upon it as, perhaps,
the week which mos