APRIL 23
You have need to be all alive yourselves, if you would impart life to others.
Letter, 3rd December, 1780
This revival of religion has spread to such a degree as neither we nor our fathers had known. How extensive has it been! There is scarce a considerable town in the kingdom where some have not been made witnesses of it. It has spread to every age and sex, to most orders and degrees of men; and even to abundance of those who, in time past, were accounted monsters of wickedness.
Consider the swiftness as well as extent of it. In what age has such a number of sinners been recovered in so short a time from the error of their ways?
Sermon at the Foundation of the City Road Chapel
