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She said, ' I feel my heart knit to you, in a manner I cannot express ; and I was thinking, if we love one another now, how will our love be enlarged when we meet in heaven! Andthe thought was too much for me to bear; it quite overcame me.' " 14. On Friday she seemed to be just upon the wing : We thought she was going almost every moment. So she continued till Tuesday. We were unwilling to part with her,but seeing the pain she was in,could not wish it should continue; and so gave her up to God. I sat upwithher thatnight, and the next day, June 7, she fell asleep." Monday, 31, and the following days, Ivisited the societies near London. Friday, NOVEMBER 5. In the afternoon John Downes (who had preached with usmany years) was saying, " I feel such a love to the people at West-Street, that I could be content to die with them. I do not find myself very well ; but I must be with them this evening." He went thither, and began preaching, on, " Come unto me, ye that are weary and heavy-laden." After speaking ten or twelve minutes, he sunk down, and spake no more, till his spirit returned to God. I suppose he was by nature full as great a genius as Sir Isaac Newton. I will mention but two or three instances of it :-When he was at school, learningAlgebra, he came oneday to his master, and said, " Sir, I can prove this proposition a betterway than it is provedinthe book." His master thought it could not be ; but upon trial, acknowledged it to be so. Some time after, his father sent him to Newcastle with a clock, which was to bemended. He observed the clockmaker's tools, and the manner how he took it in pieces, and put it together again ; and whenhe came home, first made himself tools, andthenmade a clock, which went as true as any in the town. I suppose such strength of genius as this, has scarce been known in Europe before. Anotherproofof it was this:-Thirty years ago, while I was shaving, he was whittling the top of a stick : I asked, "What Nov. 1774.1 JOURNAL. 35 are you doing ? " He answered, " I am taking your face, which