Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
2nd April 2005
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called Green River, and afterwards filled the town, and there has been a
glorious work there. It began also to be manifest, in the south part of
Hatfield, in a place call the Hill, and the whole town, in the second
week in April, seemed to be seized, as it were at once, with concern
about the things of religion; and the work of God has been great there.
There has been also a very general awakening at West-Springfield, and
Long Meadow; and in Enfield there was for a time a pretty general
concern amongst some who before had been very loose persons. About the
same time that this appeared at Enfield, the Rev. Mr. Bull, of
Westfield, informed me, that there had been a great alteration there,
and that more had been done in one week, than in seven years before.
Something of this work likewise appeared in the first precinct in
Springfield, principally in the north and south extremes of the parish.
And in Hadley old town, there gradually appeared so much of a work of
God on souls, as at another time would have been thought worthy of much
notice. For a short time there was also a very great and general
concern, of the like nature, at Northfield. And wherever this concern
appeared, it seemed not to be in vain: but in every place God brought
saving blessings with Him, and His word attended with His Spirit (as we
have