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bers of society, white and black, in small companies 

 in our own house. I gave my advice as to temporals. 

 I recommended the painting of the new, and the en- 

 largement of the old church to eighty feet by forty; to 

 enlarge the preacher's house, and to buy another buiy- 

 ing-ground. Besides praying regularly after every 

 meal in our own house, I am obliged to go through 

 this exercise many times, daily, with the poor negroes. 

 I feel that I want to go hence, but not until my God 

 and Guide gives me liberty. I wait to know his will 

 about going to Georgetown, two hundred and thirty 

 miles, before the Camden Conference. I wrote a letter 

 to Mr. Atmore, advising of affairs of the society and 

 of my own; and counseled him to pursue the good 

 work he is engaged in, and bend all his strength to 

 the Memorial. 



Sunday, 8. I was in great heaviness through mani- 

 fold temptations; yet I preached in Cumberland Street 

 in the morning, and at Bethel in the afternoon. I 

 was happy, and had great openings. I fear, some- 

 times, that my commission will wear out amongst one 

 description of people here. Religion of a certain kind 

 must be very valuable, since we spend so much to sup- 

 port it. There must be a prodigious revival in the 

 Independent Society — a building of theirs will cost 

 fifty, or perhaps one hundred thousand dollars : there 

 is a holy strife between its members and the Episco- 

 palians, who shall have the highest steeple; but I be- 

 lieve there is no contention about who shall have the 

 most souls converted to God. 



Monday, 9. Beading and receiving all visitors who 

 came to our house, with counsel and prayer, from room 

 to room, with white and black. 



Tuesday, 10. We have goodly weather. God, by 



