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often heard me in Philadelphia was waiting to speak with me, and 

 introduced me to several others, who invited me to go with them to 

 Mr. Wright's, where I spent the evening in great happiness, and we 

 concluded the day with praise and prayer. 



.Monday, 8. Spent the morning in study; dined with several 

 gentlemen at Mr. Wright's where piety and politeness are happily 

 united, and had a good time in the evening, while I opened and 

 applied, "This man receiveth sinners;" the word was with power, 

 and the Lord made bare his arm in defense of his own truth and 

 righteousness, displayed in the everlasting gospel of his Son. Tues- 

 day, I wrote several letters to my correspondents in the North, and 

 at night I expounded the histo ry of th e Canaanitish woman to a large 

 congregation of genteel and attentive hearers; my heart was drawn 

 out with desires to do them good, but I had not so much unction and 

 divine, tenderness of spirit as I frequently find in other places. 



Wednesday, 10. Mr. Wood, a lawyer, and a young merchant from 

 Boston, accompanied me to the Orphan House, twelve miles from 

 Savannah. The road was through the pine-trees, which, being per- 

 petually green, make it remarkably pleasant. But the situation of 

 the house is by no means agreeable. It stands on a small creek, and 

 is almost surrounded with barren sand that produces nothing but 

 pines, which is a certain sign of the badness of the soil. The house 

 itself is well enough. In the evening I preached to the family with 

 peculiar satisfaction of mind, and had abundant reason to say the 

 Lord was in that place. Thursday morning we had prayer in the 

 chapel. My heart was united with the people of God, and drawn 

 out with longing desires for the salvation of mankind. Afterward 

 I returned to Savannah, and preached in the evening with liberty 

 of spirit. Friday was the time for Mr. Zubly's Dutch lecture, but 

 the town was in confusion on account of his excellency Governor 

 Wright, who was expected this day, so there was no service. Satur- 

 day the governor came, the guns were fired, the militia mustered, 

 and all the gentlemen in the town attended to congratulate him on 

 his safe arrival, and the whole town was full of festivity; neverthe- 

 ]ess we had a pretty large congregation in the evening, and the Lord 

 made us to rejoice in his salvation. 



Sunday, 14. The weather was so very wet and gloomy that our 

 congregation was but small, yet. our labor was not in vain in the 

 Lord. In the afternoon I heard preaching in the Episcopal Church, 

 in the evening at Mr. Zubly's, and concluded the day with my kind 

 and dear friend Mr. Wright, who has behaved to me with the great- 



