5th, Saturday.-Left London at 7. Reached Olney about four, P.M.

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6th, Lord's-day.-Expounded this morning. Preached afternoon and evening. Six young men with Mr. Sutcliff at present; Coles, Smith, George, Davies, Dobney, and Richards. "7th.-Met with the children as wont at five. Mr. Wilson continues to meet with them.

"8th.-Preached at Mr. Reynold's meeting-house, Welling

borough.

"9th.-Rode over to Kettering. Dined with Brother Fuller. Slept at Mrs. Wallis'.

"10th.-Spent the day with Brother Fuller. Talked over various subjects. Magnet attracting steel filings from ashes, illustrative of a proper manner of preaching Christ Jesus. Do not analyze Faith or Repentance. There is the object-there He is but another man comes with a cheese-taster, picks out the man's eyes, dissects them, and says, this nerve and that were so and so, &c.

"11th.-Mr. Fuller dined and supped with us. Preached for him in the evening.

"13th, Lord's-day.-Expounded in the morning, and preached in the afternoon and evening.

"14th.-Left Kettering. Overtook Brother Fuller at Guilsborough. Went together to Brownsover, Sir Egerton Leigh's. Mr. Fuller preached at Rugby from John xv. 7.

"15th.-Reached Coventry about twelve. Dined at Mr. Butterworth's with Fuller, Page, Franklin, and Thomas of London. In the evening Brother Fuller expounded Luke vii. An interesting lecture.

"16th.-Arrived at Birmingham by seven, A.M. Cannon Street Chapel re-opened after enlargement. Dr. Ryland preached in the morning, Mr. Fuller in the afternoon, and I in the evening. Messrs. Franklin, Belcher, Sutcliff, Page, Trotman, Coles, and Little present, and took part in the services. Lodged at Mr. Potts'. Brother Pearce's house is occupied by Mr. Morgan.

" 17th.-Called on Brother Morgan. Went to the room where dear Pearce died, and his wife since !-was in his study, now lying in the state he left it. Brother Morgan uses it without alteration. Preached for Mr. Little at Paradise Street Chapel. Mr. Littlewood of Rochdale here.

"20th, Lord's-day.-Expounded this morning at Cannon Street, in the afternoon at Bond Street for Mr. Edmonds, and in the evening at Paradise Street for Mr. Little.

"24th.-Left Birmingham for Liverpool.

"27th, Lord's-day.-Preached this morning at Byrom Street. Afternoon and evening at Lime Street. Religion is at a low ebb in this town, people are so bent on making money.

"30th.-At Mr. Hope's. Expounded in the evening at Lime

Street.

"31st. Heard Mr. Watson, (Kilhamite,) pious, and of great ability.

"1st August.-Manchester.

"3d, Lord's-day.-Preached at Cannon Street this morning for Mr. Roby, and at Mosley Street this afternoon for Mr. Bradley. Heard Mr. Roby in the evening.

"4th.-With Mr. Bury of Pendlehill. Addressed at the missionary prayer meeting, Isaiah ix. 7.

"6th.-Walked over to Fairfield, Moravian settlement. Afternoon, at Mr. Bradley's. Evening, monthly lecture at Mr. Roby's;-on forgiveness, Eph. iv. 32. Mr. Jack preached. "8th.-Mr. Bury having left his gig for me, drove over to Rochdale with Mr. Pope. Preached at Mr. Littlewood's.

"9th.-Set off in the gig to Pendlehill-overtook Mr. Dickenson walking.

"10th, Lord's-day.-Preached twice at Pendlehill. In the evening at Accrington, a good congregation-comfortable all day. "11th.-Went down and saw Mr. Bury's works. Went to the top of the hill, and down on the other side to Mr. Jollie's meeting-house-built 1688. Remember the old door. Se Palmer's Nonconformist's Memorial.'

"12th.-At Rochdale, expounded this evening. At Mr. Littlewood's, met Mr.; conversation, 'holy guile;'-he was convinced.

"13th.-To Ewood-hall, Mr. John Fawcett's. Old Mr. Fawcett came over from Machpelah and spent the remainder of the day. Mr. Sutcliff's brother was there. Walked to Hebden Bridge. Preached there. Slept at Mr. Fawcett's, Machpelah. Burying-ground.

"14th.-To Leeds. At Mr. Langdon's. "15th.-To Newcastle.

"17th, Lord's-day.-Preached this morning and afternoon at the Baptist meeting. In the evening heard Mr. Ballantyne in Joiners' Hall. Mr. Robert Haldane is with him.

“18th.-Left for Edinburgh, which reached at half-past 11, P.M. Found my dear sister and little Jane well. O Lord, my Redeemer how marvellous and how kind are all Thy ways toward me; if I should reckon Thy mercies, they are more than can be numbered !'

CHAPTER III.

HIS MINISTRY IN EDINBURGH FROM 1806 To 1818.

SOON after Mr. Anderson reached Olney in June 1805, it became exceedingly doubtful whether he should be permitted to carry out his first intention of joining the missionary band at Serampore. It is likely that Mr. Fuller's mind on the subject. was determined by a personal interview with his brother, Dr. James Anderson, and other friends in Edinburgh, while on his visit to Scotland in July following, on behalf of the mission, as his letters to his young friend after this direct his attention more to the North than to the East. In a letter dated the 19th of that month, he writes:-"I wrote Brother Sutcliff proposing your supplying for me at Kettering the two first Lord's-days in August, and I hope you will be enabled to comply. Don't be uneasy in your situation. I hope things will go right at Edinburgh. I had two happy Sabbaths with the friends there." Again, in a letter to Mr. Ward of Serampore, dated 12th September, giving a lively narrative of his Scottish journey, he writes: "While in Edinburgh, I received an invitation from the little Baptist Church meeting in Cordiners' Hall, to preach to them on the afternoon of every Sabbath I staid, and to administer the Lord's Supper to them. With this request I complied with much pleasure. I found them about twelve or fourteen in number. They had a Mr. Young, who had joined them, and who was one of the Tabernacle ministers till lately, but their thoughts are turned towards Christopher Anderson as their future pastor. He was one of themselves, and is now with Brother Sutcliff, either to be a missionary or to return to Edin

burgh, as it shall appear duty a while hence. . . . I do not think the practice of weekly communion binding, but having no doubt of its lawfulness, I united with this little Church, with much affection, the two Sabbaths I spent in Edinburgh."

Before the end of September Mr. Anderson's decision was formed, and now all his thoughts were turned homewards, and though he spent eleven months longer in England, it was only with a view to further suitableness for his undertaking in Edinburgh. Though his intentions were now no secret to the few friends there with whom he was in fellowship, nor to those in Bristol in whom he sought to excite an interest in behalf of his enterprise, he made no mention of it for a while to his brothers, two of whom were members of the Scotch Baptist Church, and the other a member of the Tabernacle. At length, in a letter to his brother Charles, dated 23d May, 1806, he disclosed his intention, with the reason for continued privacy. "We think of purchasing Richmond Court meeting-house, and inviting the poor as well as others to hear the Gospel. You need not, however, mention this, as I do not wish to excite any speculation, nor make any noise further than what is necessary to do good. Our exertions are all in perspective, and may never be realized, so that your saying anything about it just now may be premature. You will mention it to Robert and James, of course. You all may have heard something of it already, but I thought it brotherly to mention it to you myself." Still more explicitly, on the 6th of June, he writes to his eldest brother:-" When I return, I propose, if the Lord will, to endeavour to collect an audience out of those who are poor, or who are unaccustomed to attend any place of worship. Perhaps we may meet in your old meeting-house. I am becoming more sensible of the difficulty of such a measure, and of the importance attached to it. Yet I trust the Lord, for whom, I hope, I am ready to forsake all, will carry me through, and do us good as a church. We begin in opposition to no party. One of my principal desires and designs being to convert sinners from the error of their ways,