"The seed sown by your ministry daily appears, and in new
instances. I am told the first night a play was acted here this
season there were but about six ladies at it; the second, two;
and the third and last, none at all. The little children of this
city cannot forget you. Their very hearts leap within them upon
hearing your name."[481]
[481] Ibid., December 5, 1741.
In another letter, from a friend in Scotland, dated, "December 12,
1741," it is stated, that, Whitefield spent five days in Glasgow,
and preached ten times in the High Church yard, to vast multitudes
reckoned at from ten to fifteen thousand. Above sixty persons were
converted by his preaching.[482]
[482] Ibid., December 12, 1741.
Six months after Whitefield's departure, a minister in Edinburgh
wrote:--
"Since you left Scotland, numbers, in different places, have
been awakened. Religion, in this sinful city, revives and
flourishes. Ordinances are more punctually attended. People hear
the word with gladness, and receive it in faith and love. New
meetings, for prayer and spiritual conference, are being begun
everywhere. Religious conversation has banished slander and
calumny from several tea-tables. Praise is perfected out of the
mouths of babes and sucklings. Some stout-hearted sinners are
captivated to the obedience of Christ."[483]
[483] _Glasgow Weekly History_, No. xxvii.