"1738, Saturday, December 30. Preached nine times this week, and
expounded near eighteen times, with great power and enlargement.
Blessed be God! I am every moment employed from morning till
midnight. There is no end of the people's coming and sending to
me. They seem more and more desirous, like new-born babes, to
be fed with the sincere milk of the word. What a great work has
been wrought in the hearts of many within this twelvemonth!
"Sunday, December 31. Preached twice to large congregations,
especially in the afternoon, at Spitalfields. I had a great
hoarseness upon me;" (no wonder!) "but God strengthened me to
speak, so as to be heard by all. After I left Spitalfields, I
expounded to two companies in Southwark, and was never more
enlarged in prayer in my life. Many were pricked to the heart,
and _felt_ themselves to be sinners. Oh that all the world knew
and felt that!"
Thus, with Whitefield, ended the year 1738.
_COMMENCEMENT OF OUTDOOR PREACHING._