Thus actuated, and other circumstances conducing, in September 1830, with some Irish friends, I set out to join Mr.Groves at Bagdad.

What I might do there, I knew not.

I did not go as a minister of religion, and I everywhere pointedly disowned the assumption of this character, even down to the colour of my dress.
But I thought I knew many ways in which I might be of service, and I was prepared to act recording to circumstances.
* * * * * Perhaps the strain of practical life must in any case, before long, have broken the chain by which the Irish clergyman unintentionally held me; but all possible influence from him was now cut off by separation.

The dear companions of my travels no more aimed to guide my thoughts, than I theirs: neither ambition nor suspicion found place in our hearts; and my mind was thus able again without disturbance to develop its own tendencies.
I had become distinctly aware, that the modern Churches in general by no means hold the truth as conceived of by the apostles.

In the matter of the Sabbath and of the Mosaic Law, of Infant Baptism, of Episcopacy, of the doctrine of the Lord's return, I had successively found the prevalent Protestantism to be unapostolic.