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five or six times as many at King's Square ; and great was our rejoicing in the Lord. Mon. 6.-I preached on David's prayer, " Lord, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness." And how remarkably has he heard this prayer with regard to the French Ahithophels ! Wed. 8.-I preached at Paulton, where the people are still all alive, and the society is still as one family; consequently it increases both in grace and number. At six I preached at Pensford, and spent a pleasant evening with the lovely family at Publow. Where is there such another ? I cannot tell : I doubt, not in Great Britain or Ireland. Sun. 12.-I found it work enough to read Prayers, and preach, and administer the sacrament to several hundred people. But itwas comfortable work ; and I was no more tired at the end than at the beginning. Mon. 13. I preached at Bath and Bradford ; on Tuesday, at the end of the new House, in Frome. Wednesday, 15. I Oct. 1779.1 JOURNAL. preached at Malcolm and Shaftesbury ; Thursday, 16, at Shepton-Mallet. Here also, as well as at Paulton, (the two most unlikely places in the Circuit,) a spreading flame is kindled. I preached at Coleford in the evening. Amongthis plain, sim- ple people, the power ofGod is always present. Sun. 19. The rain would not suffer me to preach abroad. OnMonday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, I examined the society, and found alarge number had been called home this year. A few are still tottering over the grave; but death hath lost its sting. Thur. 23. I preached in the afternoon near the fish-ponds. The people here had been remarkably dead for many years ; but since that saint of God, Bathsheba Hall, with her husband, came among them, a flame is broke out. The people flock together in troops, and are athirst for all the promises of God. In the evening one sat behind me in the pulpit at Bristol, who was one of our first Masters at Kingswood. A little after he left the school, he likewise left the society. Riches then flowed in upon him; with which, having no relations, Mr. "But Spencer designed to do much good-after his death. God said unto him, Thou fool ! " Two hours after, he died intestate, and left all his money to be scrambled for !