Saturday 21. I gave them a discourse on Jer. iii. 15. " And I will give you pastors according to mine heart."

Sunday 22. The Doctor spoke on the qualifications of a deacon; Some said there were three thousand

and I gave them a charge.

people to hear it was a solemn, weighty time.

Monday 23. We called at Hampden and Sidney college, in Prince Edward: the outside has an unwieldy, uncommon appearance, for a seminary of learning; what the inside is, I know not. The president, Mr. I. Smith, is a discreet man, who conducts himself well. About half past eleven o'clock we reached John Finney's, in Amelia, having rode about sixty miles. I want to live more constantly in the spirit of prayer.

Wednesday 25. Preached at I. A.'s, and then rode to Manchester, where I preached again. The Doctor preached in Richmond.

Thursday 26. Went onwards to the north. We have made it a point to pray in the families where we lodge, whether public or private; and generally where we stop for refreshment.

Saturday 28. At night the Doctor preached in Alexandria; and again on the Sabbath morning, to many hearers. We were kindly entertained on Sunday night at S. Turner's, near Bladensburg, Maryland, and on Monday reached Baltimore about noon.

MARYLAND. We had some warm and close debates in conference; but all ended in love and peace. After much fatigue and trouble, our conference ended on Monday the sixth of May. We went forward to Perry Hall. Thence we went to Cokesbury; drew a deed for the conveyance of the property of the college, and settled our temporal matters there.

Wednesday, May 8. Many attended at Elkton, and we were received by the Rudolph family with great respect.

Thursday 9. We attended at Wilmington at noon; and at Chester, at night.

Friday 10. We reached Philadelphia, where the Doctor preached that, and the following evening. We spent the Sabbath in the city, and on Monday came to Trenton, where we found a lifeless people. NEW-JERSEY.-Tuesday 14. The Doctor preached with life in the Episcopal church at Elizabethtown, and we had a good time.

NEW-YORK.-Wednesday 15. Arrived in New-York and rested. On Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, the Doctor preached with great energy and acceptance.

Tuesday 16. After long silence I preached on "For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not

rest."

Rode twenty miles on Long-Island, to Hempstead Harbour, and preached with some liberty in the evening. I am now out of the city, and have time to reflect: my soul returns to its rest, and to its labour for souls, in which I can live more by rule.

Thursday 18. I rose very sick-felt solemn and devoted to God. I preached in a paper mill on "If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God."

I preached at Moscheto Cove, where many attended notwithstanding the rain there was a power went with the word.

Saturday 26. Rode to

: our friends had procured the Presbyterian church for me. I felt a spirit of life on these words, "Be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you." I called to see my old friend and assistant, James Glaisbrook, who was the first preacher I travelled with upon a regular appointment in England. He is now a Presbyterian minister; much changed in his outward man, but I believe his sentiments are much the same as when I first knew him. The Lord be with, and bless him!

Sunday 27. I came to Harper's, where we have a little, new house, and about thirty members: I hope, and expect, in a few years, to see a circuit of six weeks formed here, and four or five hundred members in society. The people on this island, who hear the Gospel, are generally poor, and these are the kind I want, and expect to get. I have had great assistance and freedom in speaking.

Monday 28. Came to York-Preached at night on "They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, and they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit." I found it necessary to stop brother Hickson from going to Nova Sotia : brother C is married, and I expect brother Jessop will go alone.

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Tuesday 29. I delivered a close and awful discourse on They shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob," &c. 1. A scriptural view of the kingdom of heaven. The subjects or citizens thereof. 3. Sit down with Abraham, famous for faith; Isaac for justice, truth, meditation, and walking with God; and Jacob, mighty in prayer. I was in prayer until near midnight. O Lord make me all life and love; patience and resignation under the troubles of the church and disappointment of its ministers. Sunday, June 3. I had a gracious time on 2 Cor. Ordained E. Cooper a deacon. In the afternoon my whilst I enlarged on Matt. xviii. 15. to the end.

iv. 1, 2, 3, 4. soul had peace

Tuesday 5. Preached on "No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of heaven." I felt freedom and power in speaking.

Wednesday 6. Met leaders and trustees, and after some explanation, settled matters relative to singing in public worship. I preached at the poor-house on "Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." My soul has peace. I keep myself busy in visiting the families of the society, or the sick, or meeting class, if some other business does not call me.

Sunday 10. I had some life in preaching on Luke iv. 18. and in the afternoon on "I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent," &c.

I left the city in great union with the Lord and with the church. My soul is variously exercised: I want the country air, and to live more in the spirit of solitude and of prayer. Came to East-Chester and preached in the shell of the new church on "To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts;" the power of God was felt. I came to the widow Bartoe's, where I lay sick fifteen years ago, and was treated with the greatest tenderness; may the Lord reward them all a hundred fold, and convert their souls!

Tuesday 12. I found it the same at New-Rochelle town as in times past will it always be so?-If there is no change I shall trouble them no more. In the afternoon I rode to C-'s, where I laboured many years ago, and there is some fruit remaining to this day.

Wednesday 13. We had a long and warm ride to North-Castle. Here a multitude were gathered together, to whom I spoke in an orchard on "Him hath God exalted with his right-hand to be a Prince and Saviour, to give repentance unto Israel, and remission of sins." I was quite unwell, faint yet pursuing.

Rode to R-'s, of the society of Friends, who received us with great love.

At H-'s a multitude came to hear, whom I exhorted to "Seek the Lord while he might be found."

I was happy in being alone. I poured out my soul to God for the whole work, and the dear people and preachers of my charge. My body is weak-my soul enjoys peace. I have power over all sin, and possess a spirit of prayer and watchfulness: I feel myself dead to all below, and desire to live only for God and souls

Friday 15. I preached to a listening multitude at Peekskill; and was alarming and close on "By grace ye are saved through faith."

I thought there were no people here of spiritual understanding; but I was informed, to my comfort, that a number of simple-hearted people had formed themselves into a society for prayer: perhaps these will be some of the first-fruits in this place.

Saturday 16. Rode over the mountain, and was gratified with the sight of a remarkable recess for the Americans during the last war : the names of Andre and of Arnold, with which misfortune and treachery are so unhappily and intimately blended, will give celebrity to West-Point, had it been less deserving of notice than its wonderful appearance really makes it. It is commanded by mountains rising behind, and appears to be impregnable: there are blockhouses on the east; and on the west, stores, barracks, and fortifications. From West-Point we crossed a high mountain, and came to Newburgh.

Sunday 17. In the love-feast, sacrament, and public exercises, we were employed nearly seven hours: there was some life in the love-feast, but the congregation appeared very little moved under preaching.

Monday 18. I presume I had nearly seven hundred hearers at Allen's, to whom I spoke with some power on Luke xi. 13. I baptised several adults, and some children; and came to W -'s, and baptised others. Thence to Mr. Ellis's, whose wife (a dutch lady) entertained us like a queen.

I visited Colonel P, supposed to be at the point of death : after close examination, I administered the sacrament to him.

NEW-JERSEY.-Wednesday 20. I came to Warwick, where I suppose not less than a thousand people were collected: I was very low both in body and spirit, but felt stirred up at the sight of such a congregation, and was moved and quickened while I enlarged on Gal. i. 4. I baptised some, and administered the sacrament to many communicants.

Thursday 21. A multitude attended at B- -'s, in a barn. Here God hath wrought a great work for a poor, blind, ignorant people. Friday 22. I preached at the stone church, after riding upwards of thirty miles we then rode until ten o'clock in the night through a heavy rain. I was much tried in body and mind: I had nothing to eat but a little bread and milk, and that made me sick.

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Saturday 22. We had a good time at Sweezy's. After administering the sacrament, we had another long ride after night.

Sunday 24. I preached in the woods to nearly a thousand people. I was much oppressed by a cold, and felt very heavy in body and soul. Like Jonab, I went and sat down alone. I had some gracious feelings

in the sacrament-others also felt the quickening power of God. I baptised a number of infants and adults, by sprinkling and by immersion-I felt my body quite weary in, but my spirit not of, the work of God.

Tuesday 26. Preached at W. Wallace's to a dull, contracted people. Since last Monday two weeks, I have rode about three hundred and fifty miles.

PENNSYLVANIA.-Wednesday 27. We had a warm ride through a fertile, pleasant country to Trenton; and on Thursday the 28th to Philadelphia. Here I found T. V. had scattered firebrands, and thrown dirt to bespatter us.

Friday & Saturday 29, 30. Taken up in writing letters, packing up books, and begging for the college.

Sunday, July 1. Preached three times in the city of Philadelphia
On Monday 2. to a few simple-hearted souls at Radnor.
Tuesday 3. We had a flat time at the Valley.

Wednesday 4. We had a few feeling souls at Uchland-afterward went to Coventry Forge.

Saturday 7. I had some energy in preaching to a few people at Morgans-Town.

Sunday 8. Preached at Evans's, Rich-Land-a poor people for religion: I hope, nevertheless, that God will visit them.

Monday 9. Preached at I. Miller's, who has a pious wife. Friday 13. We rode to Hagerstown; and found it a journey of about fifty miles: we and our horses were weary enough. I was sorry to hear that the people came twice to hear me last year; and the lameness of my horse caused me to disappoint them.

Saturday 14. At five o'clock in the evening the court-house was opened; a few of the great and many of the poor attended, to whom I spoke with divine assistance. I preached again on Sunday at eleven o'clock.

I find T. V. has misrepresented us as having cast off Mr. Wesley, making this a plea for his re-ordination.

VIRGINIA.-Monday 16. Set out for the springs. In the first place we missed our way; then my baggage horse ran back two miles-I was tried not a little.-O, how sad the reflection, that matters trifling as these should make a person so uneasy. We reached the springs about seven o'clock. I preached the two following days with some satisfaction. By advancing nine pounds, for nails and planks, I engaged brother Eaton to have our chapel covered by the first of August.

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