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or the excessive warmth of the weather might have killed our horses. We had no small consolation in uniting the brethren from three districts in conference; whose names only were before known to each other. I gave them one sermon on Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee." Our conference sat three days successively, very closely employed.

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Friday 21. We rode thirty-five miles to F.'s, and thirty-five more the next day to Fort Littleton. Our roads are rough; I am sick; our fare is coarse; but it is enough-I am to die. I have been under violent temptations-Lord, keep me every moment! Our horses were out of the way, so that we could not pursue our journey. I was desirous to be doing good somewhere; and was led to speak to a woman unknown to me, and urged her to pray three times a day she appeared tender; and with tears promised so to do-perhaps this labour may not be lost. I have had the happiness to hear that my labour of this kind at the widow H.'s, when there last, was successful, and that a woman was wrought upon to give herself to God, and found peace. We collected the little persecuted society, to whom I preached on " All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution :" they were poor, but very kind. Thence we proceeded on to Juniata; crossed to Miflin-Town, and came to H. M.'s.

Thursday 20. I had some little time to read, write, and pray. My congregation was careless and unfeeling. I enforced David's charge to Solomon. Methinks it ought to be with those who have to do with souls, as with a tender, feeling physician that attends a patient :-does the fever rage, or the delirium continue? his countenance is sad; and when labour and medicine fail, and the symptoms continue or grow worse, he is then forced, as a skilful physician, to pronounce his patient incurable-whilst a quack flatters and sees no danger: such is the difference between a true minister of Christ and a false teacher, when applied to the souls of

men.

Thursday 27. Was to me a day of trial. We set out late towards Northumberland: night coming on, we stopped at Penns-Creek. Next morning we went to Northumberland to breakfast. It has a little chapel (that serves as a school-house) belonging to the Methodists. We have a few kind, respectable friends, whose circumstances are comfortable. I gave them a sermon on John xiv. 6.; and in the afternoon paid Sunbury a visit. The people here are almost all Dutch. I was enabled to speak alarming words on Acts iv. 12.

July 2. After preaching on "the grace of God appearing to all men," we wrought up the hills and narrows to Wyoming. We stopped at a poor house; nevertheless, they were rich enough to sell us a half bushel of oats, and had sense enough to make us pay well for them. We reached Mr. P's about eleven o'clock. I found riding in the night caused a return of my rheumatic complaint through my breast and shoulders. But all is well, the Lord is with us.

Thursday 4. Being the anniversary of the American independence, there was a great noise among the sinners: a few of us went down to Shawanee; called a few people from their work, and found it good for us to be there.

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Sunday 7. The Lord has spoken in awful peals of thunder. O, what havock was made here fifteen years ago! most of the inhabitants were either cut off, or driven away. The people might have clothed themselves in sackcloth and ashes the third, if in white and glory the fourth of July. The inhabitants here are very wicked; but I feel as if the Lord would return. I hope brothers F-, I- and P———, will be owned of the Lord. The man at whose house I was to preach, made a frolic the day before; it was said he sent a mile across the river for one of his neighbours, taking him from his work, and telling him he was about to bleed to death: this falsity was invented, I suppose, to incline the man to come the people would not come to his house. I had to walk a mile through burning heat to preach; I was severely exercised in mind, hardly knowing where to go to get a quiet, clean place to lie down.

Monday 8. I took the wilderness, through the mountains, up Lackawamy on the Twelve-miles Swamp; this place is famous for dirt and lofty hemlock. We lodged in the middle of the swamp at S's; and made out better than we expected. Next morning we set out in the rain, without breakfast: when we came to the ferry, a man took us to his house, and gave us some bread, butter, and some buckwheat, and then charged us four shillings and twopence, although we found our own tea and sugar,—the place we should have called at was a little further on the way.

On the 5th, after very sultry weather, there came a whirlwind, and a very great storm; in which there fell hail of such a size that three stones filled a pint measure: this went through Hudson, some distance from us.

NEW-JERSEY.-Wednesday 9. We came to Broadhead's, and were totally unknown; I was sick, and stopped for breakfast-they VOL. II.

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suspected we were preachers; one asked brother Hill who I was: being informed, the mother, son, and daughter came running with tears to speak with me.-I stopped, and gave them a sermon at Marbletown. I found the work of God going on among the Low Dutch :-these, of all the people in America, we have done the least with.

NEW-YORK.-Saturday 12. We rode to Coeyman's Patent; we had a good quarterly meeting; many newly converted souls testified of the goodness of God, and of the power of his grace. From thence to Albany with reluctance; and lectured, being Sabbath evening: I felt the wickedness of the people: but we had a melting season among the preachers in our conference. Great changes will be made among the preachers from this conference; some will be sent to New-Jersey; others to Rhode-Island and Massachusetts. The people of Albany roll in wealth they have no heart to invite any of the servants of God to their houses; unless a great change should take place, we shall have no more conferences here. I am tired down with fatigue and labour, under great weakness of body. Yet I must haste to Lynn-it may be, to meet trouble. But my days will be short.

"My suffering time will soon be o'er,
Then shall I sigh and weep no more:
My ransom'd soul shall soar away,
To sing God's praise in endless day."

We hope two hundred souls have been awakened, and as many converted in Albany district the past year. Our friends are happy here, not being distressed with divisions in the church, nor by war with the Indians, as they are to the southward. According to our reckoning, we make it about four hundred and forty-seven miles from Oldtown to Albany-to come the mountainous road through the woods; and to come by Baltimore, Philadelphia, and NewYork, it is six hundred miles.

Saturday 19. The congregation being small, and the preachers sleepy, made it a task for me to preach at Rowe's chapel.

Sunday 20. There was a breath of life in the love-feast. I was enabled to be close in preaching on Matt. xviii. 3. “ Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven." In my introduction I showed that the being converted here mentioned, is the same word which in other places is translated, "born again ;" answering to the new creation and resurrection. In this discourse I took occasion to show the misera

ble state of the unconverted, both present and future, and the exercises that converted souls do, and must pass through ;--that they must be made as little children, wholly dependent on God; possessing meekness of spirit, and freed from the guilt, power, and nature of sin. My mind enjoyed peace; but I was grieved at seeing a number of young, unfeeling sinners assembled at a tavern on the Lord's day.

CONNECTICUT.-Monday 21. We rode fifteen miles to Sharon, two miles from Litchfield-there is a little move among the peo. ple of this place.

Tuesday 22. Came to H-'s. I rested in a very solitary shade, and was comforted in my own mind. Perhaps the old man is right who says, not many of this generation will enter into the promised land, but their children. Came to East-Hartford, and find it still a day of small things. Falling under deep dejection (such as I had not known for months,) I concluded to preach this evening for my own consolation on "Thou that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself?" We passed through and spent a night at Windham-a pleasant town. Thence through Canterbury and Plainfield: where our preachers from Connecticut have visitedbut it is a dry land—little rain in a double sense. Thence I came upon the state of Rhode-Island; stopped in Coventry, and found that the two preachers stationed here have been running over almost the whole state, and had formed but few societies. When I came to Providence, I. Martin told me, that under the present difficulties they had agreed not to forward the preachers of the Methodists among them, nor to befriend them; I asked for a tavern, and was directed to General T-'s, where I was used well: some were displeased at our praying; and acted much like Sodomites. Oh! the enmity and wickedness that is in the human heart. In the morning I was visited by Mr. Wilson; I gave him my mind freely, and left him: the secret of the matter was, that many in that congregation would have been kind to us, but meeting with Mr. coming from Ireland, (once a travelling preacher) he settled with them their convenience suited his interest. But the people can hear us in the school-house; and if any are awakened, they will join the church over the bridge.

MASSACHUSETTS.-We had heavy work for man and horse to reach Easton-our money grew short.

Sunday 27. Reading the Scripture in the congregation appeared to be a new thing among the people. I gave them a lecture

under the apple-trees on Isaiah xxxv. 3-6.; and trust my labour was not lost.

Monday 28. We rode upwards of thirty miles, through great heat, to Lynn. On our way we fed our horses, and bought a cake and some cheese for ourselves; surely we are a spectacle to men and angels! The last nine days, we have rode upwards of two hundred miles, and, all things taken together, I think it worse than the wilderness: the country abounds with rocks, hills, and stones; and the heat is intense-such as is seldom known in these parts.

Tuesday 29. Preached in Lynn on 2 Chron. xv. 2. the prophecy of Azariah by the Spirit.

I. We are to seek Jehovah in the means; by the direction of the word and Spirit; through Christ, by repentance and faith. II. The Lord will be with his people, as a Father and God; in his wisdom, love, truth, and mercy; at all times, and places; in every strait and difficulty.

III. We should be with God as his children, to fear, trust in, worship, and serve him.

IV. The breach of the covenant by idolatry, departing from the love, fear, and confidence they have in him..

V. That the Lord will withdraw from such souls.

August. We have only about three hundred members in this district; yet we have a call for eight or seven Preachers: although our members are few, our hearers are many.

Sunday 3. We had preaching at six, twelve, two, and seven o'clock, and administered the Lord's supper also. I have now finished my work at Lynn. Circumstances have occurred which have made this conference more painful than any one conference beside.

Monday 4. We rode to Cambridge. On our way we called on Mr. Adams, and found him and his wife under deep exercise of mind. We then came to Walktham, where many attended. Things appear strange here; but several souls are under awakenings, and there is hope the Lord will work. The harvest is great; the living, faithful labourers are few.

We hasted to Westham; and found a congregation at the Baptist meeting-house. From Westham we came two miles to Needham ; here the majority of the people prefer the Methodist preachers; and want to pay them by a tax on the people'; but brothers Smith and Hill absolutely refused this plan; for which I commend them. gave them a sermon, and found some feeling souls.

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