serious impressions from some talk I had given him, and he wanted her to go to the last Camp-meeting, but she to get off said, "if you or any of the neighbours get converted at it, I will go to the next; he found peace, and held her to her promise; she, as a woman of veracity, came, though much to the mortification of her pride, but now the happy pair went home rejoicing in God.

Here, also, a man an hundred and three years old, found peace, another man, some nights ago, dreamt that he came to this meeting, and asked a black woman to pray for him, and that God set his soul at liberty The dream so impressed his mind that he could not enjoy himself until he came to see what we were about, and searching round out of curiosity, he found the very countenance he had seen in his dream: a secret impulse ran through his mind-" ask her to pray for you,"which, at first, he rejected, but for the ease of his mind, secretly made the request, so as not to be distinguished by the people, thinking thus to avoid the cross; said she, "if you will kneel down, I will;" thought he, " I shall mock the woman if I do not," and, when on his knees, thought he, "the people are now observing me, and if I do not persevere, I shall look like a hypocrite, the cross I must bear, let me do as I will, therefore, seeing I have gone so far, I will make a hand of it," and whilst on their knees, yielded in his heart to be the Lord's; and God set his soul at liberty.Thus God's words are verified, which say, Now is the accepted time and DAY of salvation. The devil's time is a future one, but God is immutable, and of course always ready, He being love; as saith the Apostle, "God is in Christ reconciling the world unto himself;" therefore, the exhortation is," be ye reconciled to God," i. e. give up your will and heart to God for Him to reign within."-Look at the thief on the cross and the gaoler and family :Paul's was the longest in the pangs of the new birth, of any related in the Testament, yet that was but three days; though some think it must take a man two or three years to be converted; thus denying the freedom of the will, waiting for what they term a special call; yet, it is evident, that the Spirit of God strives with all, and no

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man will condemn himself for not doing what he believes to be an impossibility; yet many condemn themselves for doing as they do; which implies that they believe they had power to have acted otherwise than as they did; argues the power of choice and the freedom of the human will, which every one must assent to.

I returned to the Lowlands, bidding my friends farewell and brother Dunnington who had accommodated me two hundred and fifty miles.

Many dear faces in these lands I expect to see no more until in a better world: a man and wife who were my spiritual children were passing in a coach as I concluded my meeting, they took me in and carried me a distance, where brother Mead carrying me in his chair, brought me to New-Kent Camp-meeting. The rain kept back many, however, there were about fifty hopefully converted to God in the course of the meeting; and it may be said, "the beloved clouds helped us," as my life had been previously threatened, and the Collegians backed by their President the Bishop, say they would have been upon us had not the rain hindered them. A chump of wood being flung in through the window, I leaped out after the man, he ran, and I after him, crying run, run, Old Sam is after you;" he did run, as for his life, and leaping over a fence hid among the bushes. Next morning I cut Old Sam's name on the wood, nailed it to a tree and called it Old Sam's Monument. I asked the people publicly (pointing to the monument) who was willing to enlist and serve so poor a master; I also observed, that the people who had threatened my life only upon hearsay accounts, were cowardly and inhuman, as I was an entire stranger to them; and their conduct against me was under cover. I said "your conduct is condemnable, which expression means damnable, and of course, to make the best of you, you are nothing but a pack of damned cowards, for there durst not one of you shew your heads." These young coxcombs were mightily grated, and to retaliate, said that I cursed and swore: many I believe, at that time, had a sense of the poor' wages the devil would give his servants..

Oct. 3d. Camp-meeting began at Old-Poplar-Spring church and continued four days; several found peace

amongst whom was a young woman that came ill with an ague and fever whose mother had long been praying for her conversion; she was smote down by the power of God, but went home well in soul and body. Many say these Camp-meetings are injurious to health; but I do not find ground to believe that more evils accrue than otherwise, considering the number and time: many go home better than they came, even delicate wo men, who rarely would step off a carpet for twelve months, grew more healthy from that time.

I held meetings in Pace's meeting-house and Cole's chapel, and staid with old father Le Roy Cole; he wrote a letter to Bob Sample, one of the most popular A-doubleL-part preachers in the country, who like a little fice (or cur dog) would rail behind my back: he charged his conduct with being unmanly, and said, "If Lorenzo be wrong you ought to come and correct him to his face or hush." He attended, heard me preach, and then said he would answer my discourse at a future pe riod, at the same time knowing that I was leaving the country. I replied, it is hard not to give a man a chance to defend himself, and was minded that he should come out early next morning, so as not to delay my journey, and let the people judge where the truth lay; he refused, until I insisted that backbiting was unfair; however, I could not get him out before eleven. I invi ted the people: we met: He spoke two hours and forty minutes, wearying the patience of the people; though I was minded that we should speak fifteen minutes at a time alternately, which he refused; but in his talk observed "I dare not say that Christ did not die for any living man: I dare not say that he died for any who are in hell." And many other expressions he dropped similar to the above. I attempted to follow him as well as I could, making remarks upon the dark expres sions to blindfold the people, and said the man was not honest to proceed in such an intricate way; said I, why did he say, that he dare not say Christ had not died for any living man?" because he did not know but that that man was one of the elect; again, why did he say, "that he dare not say that Christ had died for any who are in bell?" Because he did not believe that

Christ died for any who are lost. This shews he does: not believe that Christ died for all, yet he was not honest to acknowledge it in plain words; yet he has not brought one scripture in support of his ideas, only that sometimes the term all is limited: but, said I, it never can be used with propriety in the Calvinistic sense because it always means the greater part; yet they say a few, elect, or a small number; and I gave about thirty passages to demonstrate it. He raked up the ashes: of John Wesley, and quitted the ground before I had done.

Hence I rode with F. and M. Cole to Camp-meeting, where the Molechites and some split-off methodists had. done much mischief by prejudicing the minds of the neighbourhood; and to avoid a quarrel, were suffered to occupy a meeting-house, which belonged to the methodists; however, the Lord was with us, and thirteen souls were set at liberty in the course of the meeting; and though there were the greatest discouragements against this meeting, yet our enemies who came as spies, acknowledged they never saw so much decorum in so large an auditory.

Leaving Hanover I came to Louisa, with Brother Mead, where I attended the last Camp-meeting for America. Providence was with us here; hundreds at these meetings gave me their hands as a token of their desire that I should remember them in my absence, and : that they would strive to remember me when I should be beyond the Atlantic: that God would preserve, succeed, and bring me back in peace, if consistent with His will, and if we meet no more below, strive to meet above. It was a solemn feeling thus to bid friends fare- . well on the eve of embarking from one's own native country for a land unknown, and there to be a stranger. amongst strangers: at this last meeting, in the act of shaking hands, many left money with me, which sufficed to bear my expenses to the north.

* Leaving his bible behind.-The wicked compared us to officers fighting a duel one flung down his sword, crying, sword fight for yourself!

Perceiving my bodily strength more and more to decline, and my heart still bound to the European world, I was convinced of the propriety of a speedy departure, and as my wife did not arrive in Virginia, where I intended to leave her at P. Hobson's; for the fever breaking out at New-York, expelled her to the country, so that she did not get my letters in time: I took the stage, and went on to New-York, about four hundred miles in about four days and nights, not getting any rest. The season being far advanced, I suffered by cold, but got an old cloak on the way at Fredericksburg, which I once was necessitated to leave here: arriving in New-York I found my Peggy and friends well, and a vessel bound for Liverpool: I gave Peggy her choice, whether to go to her friends who were still at Pittsburg, waiting for a fresh in the river, or to Virginia, to P. and M. Hobson's, who had made the request; or to my Father's, who had wrote to that purport; or to tarry with friends in and about New-York who solicited; or to go with me to Europe, the dangers of which I had set before her: she choosing the last, if agreeable to me: I engaged our passage accordingly, on board the ship Centurion, (Benja min Lord, Master) belonging to a steady fair Quaker!

When I was in Europe before, I suffered much from the political state of affairs, for the want of a Protection, and proper Credentials; but now after I had got ready to sail, only waiting for a fair wind, the Lord provided me with them.-The penny post brought me two tetters one day, and one the next, containing a certified recommendation from the Governor of Virginia, with the Seal of that State; another containing an American protection under the seal of the United States, from Mr. Madison, the third man in the nation: this was obtained only on the intimation of a Methodist Preacher: a third was from the Town Clerk, Magistrates, County Clerk, Judges and Governor, of Connecticut, giving an account of my parentage, &c. &c. as may be seen in the document.

Considering my four Credentials, which had so providentially fallen into my hands, I thought it advisable to have my protection perfected so as to carry authority