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ing every niglit during the sitting of Conference. It 

 was the request of the Conference that I should preach 

 them a sermon on Tuesday night, with which I com- 

 plied, and made choice of Jer. xxiii. 29-32. In times 

 past I have endeavored to keep on traveling all the 

 year, but I now judge it meet to stay in Charleston a 

 little longer, and then take t^e field; yet it is with 

 fear and trembling. 



Sunday, 11. Brothers Joshua Cannon and Enoch 

 George being about to leave the city, I gave place to 

 them to perforin the services of the Sabbath. I heard 

 part of a discourse by Mr. Furman on partial and total 

 backsliding. I thought he spoke well, and that it was 

 an excellent sermon. I doubt if he had more than 

 seventy white hearers; a vast number in the city do 

 not attend to the worship of God anywhere. 



Monday, 12. The remaining members of Confer- 

 ence left the city. Brother Bruce and myself must 

 now lay our shoulders to the work. 



Tuesday, 13. Had a comfortable season in the 

 church on Gal. iv. 16: "Am I therefore become your 

 enemy, because I tell you the truth? " 



Wednesday, 14. Preached at Brother Wells's on 

 Psalm cxix. 71: "It is good for me that I have been 

 afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." 



Sunday, 18. Preached in the morning on Exod. xx., 

 the first and second commandments; in the after- 

 noon on the affliction and conversion of Manasseh, 2 

 Chron. xxxiii. 12, 13. One young man behaved amiss, 

 for which I reproved him ; perhaps he might be among 

 those in the evening who made a riot, broke the win- 

 dows, and beat open the doors. 



Sunday, 25. Preached morning and afternoon. 



Sunday, February 1. Lectured on second table of 



