
          having assurance enough to show his colors against it by rising
 in full face of everybody to see: a few who were standing around
 the stove made all speed to get down low, when the [negative?]
 was put. So went off our meeting. It made a busy week
 for me. I breaths freely when the last service on Sabbath
 evening was ended & took today to write a letter home, & this
 letter begin.


 Besides these two letters I have written save four or five others
 in the month, two of them lay [?] letters, are to father and
 the [missionary?] question about my going, Same of the Board of Dean.
 [miss.?] describing my field, & setting forth its importance. Abington
 is the name of a large, populous, & prosperous township in the 
 [insert: northwestern] northern part of Luzerne Co. Abington Center is the village which
 by an Academy, two churches, two or three blacksmithshops, save
 shoemakers, & other shops, & a sound half a dozen of grocery stores, with
 the help of a pretty poor concern of a tavern, claims to be the
 business center, the emporium & metropolis of this & one or two adjoining
 townships. It is on a mail route, on which the mail is
 carried three times a week in each direction, north south. The
 Post Office name was Abington Centre until recently, when it
 was changed to Waverly. The Lackawanna R.R. has a station
 of the same name near by, about as far as from Princeton
 to the New Jersey R.R. 


 When I obtained license from the Luzerne Presbterian speech within 
 their bounds, Mr. Osmund was preaching at Abington Centre [or?] Waverly
        