The proposal was immediately complied with, and the institution proved a valuable auxiliary to the edification of the members.
8 _mo_.

25 .-- The reading meeting this evening has been a precious season; O, how all spirits were melted together! May the blessing of the Lord rest upon this humble endeavor as a means of bringing us nearer to himself.
28_th_,--Our English Friends [Benjamin Seebohm and John Snowdon] have taken their departure.

I feel a little solitary, but I think it a great favor to be preserved from a wish to go with them; nothing will do for me but entire resignation to the Lord's will and work.

Little did I think when I left my home in England, that a work of this sort awaited me in Germany; indeed, I came blind in the gospel; I knew nothing; but now I see such a field of labor if I am faithful: how shall it ever be accomplished?
O, prepare me, dearest Lord, for without thy heavenly hand to assist me I must faint.

O, may I ever seek thy counsel; and be thou pleased to lead me step by step, and give strength according to the day.
29_th._--To-day I have for the first time expressed a few sentences in broken German in our little meeting.