16/40 It is followed the next day by another on the great duty of self-examination. I believe it is his will that I should be more given up to serve him; and if spared with life and strength, my few remaining days must be spent in his cause. A presentiment of this kind has for some time past prevailed with me; and from the calm, awful, and weighty manner in which it is at times brought over my spirit, I am induced to think it cannot be the mere phantom of the imagination. The prospect of a temporary residence on the -- -- seems rather to increase than otherwise. How it may terminate, or the time when to move, is yet uncertain to me. |