The event described in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the following developments "I... longed to see and hear him, and wished he would come this way. And I soon heard he was Ito) come to New York and [New Jersey] and great multitudes (began] flocking after him undergreat concern for their souls which brought on my concern more and more hoping soon to see him "Then one morning all of a sudden, about 8 or 9 o'clock there came a messenger and said Mr. Whitefield... is to preach at Middletown this morning .. I was in my field at work. I dropped my tool that I had in my hand and ran home and... bade my wife get ready quick to go and hear Mr. Whitefield preach at Middletown, and (ran] to my pasture for my horse with all my might, fearing that I should be too late to hear him. .... When we got to the old meeting house there was a great multitude; it was said to be 3 or 4,000 people assembled together "When I saw Mr. Whitfield... he looked almost angelical...and my hearing how God was with him everywhere as he came along it solemnized my mind, and put me into a trembling fear before he began to preach. and my old foundation was broken up, and I saw that my righteousness would not save me. Nathan Cole, farmer, describing going to hear Reverend George Whitefield preach in Middletown, Connecticut, 1740

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