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should be made in all our preaching-houses for the same pur- pose. Above three hundred pounds were raised by these means, whereby the whole difficulty was removed. Sun. 9.-1 went down at half-hour past five, but found no Preacher in the chapel, though we had three or four in the house: So I preached myself. Afterwards, inquiring why none ofmy family attended the morning preaching, they said, it was because they sat up too late. I resolved to put a stop to this ; and therefore ordered, that, 1. Every one under my roof should go to bed at nine ; that, 2. Every one might attend the morning- preaching : And so they have done ever since. Mon. 10. I was desired to see the celebrated wax-work at theMuseum in Spring-Gardens: It exhibits most of the crowned heads inEurope, and shows their characters in their countenance. Sense and majesty appear in the King of Spain ; dulness and sottishness in the King of France ; infernal subtlety in the late King of Prussia; (as wellas in the skeleton Voltaire;) calmness and humanity in the Emperor, and King of Portugal; exquisite stupidity in the Prince of Orange ; and amazing coarseness, with everything that is unamiable, in the Czarina. In the evening I preached at Peckham to a more awakened congregation than ever I observed there before. Thur. 13. I preached in the evening at Miss Teulon's, in Highgate. I never saw such a congregation there before. Will there then be good done here at last ? Well ; nothing is too hard for God! Sun. 16. After preaching at Spitalfields, I hastened to St. John's, Clerkenwell, and preached acharity sermon for the Fins- bury Dispensary ; as I would gladly countenance every institu- tion of the kind. Tues. 18.-I retired to Newington, and hid myself for almost three days. Friday, 21. The Committee proposed to me, 1. That families of men and women should sit together in both chapels : 2. That every one who took apew should have it as his own : Thus overthrowing, at one blow, the discipline which I have been establishing for fifty years ! Sat. 22.-I yielded to the importunity of apainter, and sat an hour and a half, in all, for my picture. I think it was the