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one that seemed to remain senseless or unconcerned,
it would be spoken of as a strange thing.

This dispensation has also appeared very extraordinary in the numbers of
those on whom we have reason to hope it has had a saving effect. We have
about six hundred and twenty communicants, which include almost all our
adult persons. The church was very large before; but persons never
thronged into it as they did in the late extraordinary time.-Our
sacraments are eight weeks asunder, and I received into our communion
about a hundred before one sacrament, fourscore of them at one time,
whose appearance, when they presented themselves together to make an
open explicit profession of Christianity, was very affecting to the
congregation. I took in near sixty before the next sacrament day: and I
have very sufficient evidence of the conversion of their souls, through
divine grace, though it is not the custom here, as it is in many other
churches in this country, to make a credible relation of their inward
experiences the ground of admission to the Lord's supper.

I am far from pretending to be able to determine how many have lately
been the subjects of such mercy; but if I may be allowed to declare any
thing that appears to me probable in a thing of thin nature, I hope that
more than 300 souls were savingly brought home to Christ, in this town,
in the space of half a year, and about the same number of males as
females. By what I have heard Mr. Stoddard say, this was far from what
has been usual in years past; for he observed that in his time, many
more women were converted than men. Those of our young people who are on
other accounts most considerable, are mostly, as I hope, truly pious,
and leading persons in the ways of religion. Those who were formerly
loose young persons, are generally, to all appearance, become true
lovers of God and Christ, and spiritual in their dispositions. I hope
that by far the greater part of persons in this town, a