"The greatest part of them seemed to hear as for their lives. So are these lions also become lambs. How white are the fields unto the harvest!" Wesley's Journal, 24th June 1759.
"I rode to Shields and preached in an open place to listening multitudes. Many of them followed me to South Shields where I preached in the evening to almost double the congregation. How ripe for the Gospel are these also!" Wesley's Journal, 25th May, 1761.
"What a change is wrought in this whole country! And will it not be wrought in the whole country!" Wesley's Journal, 14th June, 1761.
John Wesley preached in a street.