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for it. In the evening I preached with much satisfaction at Frome, to a mixed multitude of rich and poor ; and afterwards strongly exhorted them that had believed to walk in love, after the example of our Great Master. On Thursday, I preached at Trowbridge ; and on Friday at Bradford, where the work of God has much increased lately ; indeed, it has increased this year through the whole Circuit, as it has not done for twenty years before. On Saturday evening I preached at Bath. Sun. 11. Mr. Bradburn preached at seven, and Mr. Collins about two in the afternoon. I began the service at eleven, and preached on part of the Epistle, Ephesians iii. 14, &c. Both then and in the evening the word " distilled as the dew, and as the rain on the tender herb." Tues. 14. I preached at Stoke ; and in the evening at Pens- ford ; where, I fear, after all the pains we have taken, the gen- erality of the people know just as much of religion as the Hot- tentots . Wdnesday, 14. I preached in the evening in the old Temple church, on Psalm lxxiv. 12. In the old translation it runs, " The help that is done upon the earth, God doeth it him- self." A glorious and important truth ! In the new, " Working salvation in the midst of the earth. " What a wonderful emen Oct. 1785. ] JOURNAL. 321 dation ! Many such emendations there are in this translation : Onewould think King James had made them himself. Thur. 15. I went over to Hannam once more, andsawpoor disconsolate Louisa, still wrapping herself up naked in her blanket, and not caring to speak to any one. The late pretty tale of her being the Emperor's daughter is doubtless a mere catch-penny : Andher four-and-twenty examinations are as cre- dible as Mahomet'sjourney through seventy thousand heavens. Sun. 18. I read Prayers and preached at the new Room in the morning ; at two under the sycamore inKingswood ; and at five near King's Square in Bristol. In the following week I visited the classes, and was amazed to find there is no increase in the society, considering what able and diligent Preachers they havehad the last year. Tues. 27.-I visited the little flock at Amesbury, humble,