After a month or two, by a mutual agreement between his brothers and himself which exonerated him from much of the manual labor which they still shared with the men in their employment, he devoted himself to an occupation more accordant to his mind.

He set to work to make single beds and private rooms for the workmen, contriving various conveniences and means of occasional solitude for them, and in other ways doing all in his power to achieve for them the privileges he found so necessary for himself.

Of these efforts we get occasional glimpses in the diary.

But it is, in the main, devoted to more impersonal and larger topics, and the facts of his daily employment, as just given, have been gained from other sources.
"September 1 .-- There are two ways in which the spirit may live itself out.

One is to leave all these conditions, purchase a spot of ground, and live according to its daily dictates.