 Then began so great an influx of people to Cambuslang that the minister started giving daily sermons and instruction.This lasted for about seven or eight months, until the coming of autumn.Many who attended the sermons were seized with a strong conviction that they were sinners and experienced an horrific sense of future punishment, many "bewailing their lost and undone condition by nature; calling themselves enemies to God, and despisers of precious Christ; declaring that they were unworthy to live on the face of the earth; that they saw the mouth of hell open to receive them, and that they heard the shrieks of the damned".