yield and acknowledge that here there is no way open, whilst also the first to inspire the confident hope that God will himself open a way, in a manner different from any we know of, and in his own good and set time. So do I believe, and humbly do I acknowledge and thank God for all his manifold mercies and precious dealings with us.

"Saturday, Feb. 23.-For the last two days the love of God has been shed abroad in my heart, and he himself has been nigh, in all my thoughts, and, what was more, in all my affections. Praise, and prayer, and meditation on his Holy Word, were more than ever one constant act, and in all things I had liberty. The Lord's blessing, too, was upon us in our meetings together with the men at night, and his Spirit was graciously poured out, producing great compunction of spirit and contrition of heart, with new and eager desires for the blessings of the gospel of grace in its fulness. On Thursday evening I gave the men a full view of the Lord's gracious dealings with myself, shewed them how I had laboured in ignorance, and the many ways in which I had grieved the Holy Spirit. I also plainly declared the nature of that perfection which we are commanded to seek after, and I told them how God had visited my soul with his love and the baptism of his Spirit. nest attention was given me, and much affectionate rejoicing was manifested by these simple-hearted friends, especially my dear brother Badcock. A child of God indeed is he,-an Israelite indeed, in

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whom there is no guile. Never did I see any one who was more truly a meek and humble follower of the Lamb. He has long been walking with God in righteousness and holiness, and breathing a filial childlike affection to God in Christ. Often have I praised the Lord for providing this example of his truth-this simple proof of the effectual working of his grace, where the Divine image is reflected from a groundwork of gross material, and where the great Creator alone could have wrought so mighty a change."

CHAPTER IX.

Sickness and Famine.

My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.-Psalm lxii. 5-8.

I sat in the orchard, and thought, with sweet comfort and peace, of my God; in solitude-my company, my friend, and comforter. Oh! when shall time give place to eternity? When shall appear that new heaven and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness? There, there shall in nowise enter in anything that defileth; none of that wickedness that has made men worse than wild beasts; none of those corruptions that add still more to the miseries of mortality, shall be seen or heard of any more.-The last entry in the Journal of Henry Martyn.