In the town of Stroud and the neighbouring villages, they preached with their wonted success. They addressed large multitudes in the open-air, and a great religious awakening took place. Great numbers who received their first permanent religious impressions under the zealous and pointed preaching of the missionaries, united with other denominations of Christians, but a goodly number early cast in their lot among the people through whose instrumentality they had received spiritual benefit.
From, ‘The History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion from its origin, by John Petty, 1860, p197
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