Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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I preached at Pateley-Bridge. Such a congregation, both for number and seriousness, I have not seen since we left Newcastle. As it rained, I desired the men to put on their hats; but in two or three minutes they pulled them off again, and seemed to mind nothing but how they might “know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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Two years later, on 23 July 1759,

I preached near Huddersfield, to the wildest congregation I have seen in Yorkshire: yet they were restrained by an unseen hand, and I believe some felt the sharpness of His word. I preached at Halifax in the evening, but the preaching-house was like an oven.

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