The years 1792-1795 were ‘days of the Son of Man’ in Yorkshire generally. Many believers in the Leeds, Halifax, Bradford and Huddersfield circuits looked back to that era as the time of their union with Christ.
In Sheffield, ‘the presence and power of God was unusually felt, and there was a cry among the people’. Prayer meetings multiplied and people were regularly converted in them.
John Moon describes a meeting held in the chapel when a woman was brought under such distress of soul that she began to cry aloud for mercy. The Methodists in Sheffield at that time were not used to this sort of thing. Moon himself was unwilling to entertain anything which interrupted the normal order. Reluctantly he handed over the conduct of the meeting to the local preachers and made his way to the gallery to deal with the distressed soul.
