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gation ; but I have not seen a people less affected : They seemed to be mere stocks and stones. However, I have cast my bread upon the water : Possibly it may be found again after many days . On Friday evening we went into the mail-coach, and reached London at eight in the morning. Sun. 27. As soon as I had concluded my sermon at the new chapel, I hastened away to preach at St. Luke's, one ofthe largest parish churches in London. It was thoroughly filled, as it was seven years ago, when I preached there before. God enabled me to speak strong words on the Epistle for the day; and I believe some felt that it was now high " time to awake out ofsleep." Mon. 28. I went to Canterbury : The chapel was more than filled. On Tuesday I found at Dover also a considerable increase of the work of God. Wednesday, 30. I went on to Margate. Some years since we had asmall society here ; but a Local Preacher took them to himself: Only two or three remained, who from time to time pressed our Preachers to come again ; and, to remove the objection, that there was no place to preach in, with the help of a few friends they built a convenient preaching-house. Thursday, I opened it in the evening; the congregation was large, and perfectly well-behaved; and I can- not but hope, that, after all the stumbling-blocks, there will be a people here, who will uniformly adorn the Gospel of Christ. On Friday I returned to London. Monday, DECEMBER 5, and so the whole week, I spent every hour I could spare, in the unpleasing but necessary work of going through the town, and begging for the poor menwho had been employed in finishing the new chapel. It is true, I am not obliged to do this ; but if I do it not, nobody else will. Sun. 11.-I strongly enforced St. James's beautiful descrip- tion of " the wisdom from above." How hard is it to fix, even on serious hearers, a lasting sense of the nature of true religion ! Let it be right opinions, right modes of worship, or anything, rather than right tempers ! Thur. 22.-I preached at Highgate. Considering how magnificent a place this is, I do not wonder so little good has