help. My beloved brother Joseph, and sister Jane joining me has been much cause for humble thankfulness; it has made what would have been very hard to flesh and blood comparatively sweet and easy; we are a united band in spirit and in nature; Joseph a very great help in the ministry. I think he is, and will yet be more abundantly, an instrument of honor in his Master's hand. We have sat four Meetings, visited several families of Friends, and inspected many prisons, which is one of our objects. In our religious services our gracious Helper has appeared very near; we have gone on in them with much nearness and unity; we know the blessed truth that, as we abide in Christ, we are one in Him. I have felt at seasons as leaving all for my Master's sake, and setting out without much of purse or scrip; but how bountifully I am provided for, both internally and externally. The great Shepherd of the sheep has been near to me in spirit, as strength in my weakness, riches in my poverty and a present helper in the needful time. I may say,

'Are these Thy favors day by day,

To me above the rest?

Then let me love Thee more than they,

And try to serve Thee best.'

Conflicts have attended, and no doubt will attend me; but I look upon it as an honor, a favor and a blessing, even to suffer in the Lamb's army, if we may but be of the number of the soldiers who fight the good fight of faith, and are in any degree permitted to promote the cause of truth and righteousness upon earth.

"Aberdeen, 29th.-I have felt low upon arriving here, five hundred miles from my beloved husband and children; but a good account of them is cause for thankfulness: still it is a deeply weighty thing, and I have to try my ground again and again. In almost every new place the language of my spirit is, Why am I here? At this place we find sev

eral other Friends also traveling in the ministry, which makes me feel it the more; but as my coming is not of my own choice, or my own ordering, I desire to leave it, and to commit myself, my spirit and body, and all that is dear to me, absent and present, to Christ my Redeemer. We visited the old Darclay seat at Ury where our mother's forefathers once lived. How great the change from what it once was! "Stonehaven, Ninth Month, 2nd.-We left Aberdeen this afternoon, having finished our services there, and at Kinmuck where several Friends reside. Other Friends besides ourselves being at Aberdeen certainly tended to increase my exercise, for fear of the ministry not going on well, or by not keeping in our ranks; but I think we were enabled to do so, and although much passed yet we had cause for thankfulness, inasmuch as there appeared to be harmonious labor for the advancement of truth and the spreading thereof. Our General Meeting at Aberdeen was ended under a feeling of quiet peace; but fears crept in for myself that I had fallen away a little as to life in the truth, and power in the ministry, for I did not experience that overflowing power which I have sometimes done at such seasons. Still gracious help was granted me from season to season. The day after the General Meeting we went to Kinmuck, about fifteen miles north of Aberdeen. A short time after our arrival there, before I went to meeting, such a feeling of suffering came over me as I can hardly express. It appeared only nervous, as I was so weil in body that I could not attribute it to that. It continued exceedingly upon sitting down in Meeting, and led me into deep strong supplication that the enemy might by no means deceive us, or cause our ministry to be affected by anything but the holy anointing. I feared, if this awful state had to do with those present, that I should have something very close to express; if only with myself I considered that it might be a refining trial. However Joseph knelt down in the begin ning of the meeting, as well as myself, and afterwards he

spoke as if he felt it necessary to warn some to flee from their evil ways and from the bondage of Satan. This tended to my relief; but it appeared as if I must follow him and rise with these words, 'The sorrows o death compassed me about, the pains of hell gat hold upon me;' then enlarging upon the feeling I had of the power of the enemy, and the absolute need there is to watch, to pray, and to flee unto Christ as our only sure refuge and deliverer. I had to show that we might be tried and buffeted by Satan as a further trial of faith and of patience, but that if we did not yield to him, it would only tend to refinement. After a time I felt greatly relieved, but what seemed remarkable was that neither Joseph nor I dared to leave the Meeting without once more bowing the knee for these dear Friends. But after all this very deep and remarkable exercise a solemn silence prevailed, really as if truth had risen into dominion; and after my making some such acknowledg ment in testimony, that our low estate had been regarded, that our souls could then magnify the Lord, and our spirits rejoice in God our Saviour, that light had risen in obscurity, and darkness had, in measure, become as the noon-day, and the encouragement it was for us to run with patience the race that was set before us, &c., the Meeting concluded, and I think upon shaking hands with the Friends there hardly appeared an eye that had not been weeping, amongst those that were grown up. This whole exercise was very remarkable in a nice little country meeting, and the external so fair; but afterwards we heard of one or two painful things, one in particular. We visited nearly all the families, were pleased with some of them: their mode of living truly humble like our cottagers. The next day we had a Meeting with a few Friends at Aberdeen where the exercise was not very great and the flow in the ministry sweet, and I trust powerful. We parted from our beloved friends, John and Elizabeth Wigham, their children, and children's children, and are now on our way to Edinburgh.

"Hawick, 13th.-I may thankfully acknowledge being so far on our way, but our journey through life is a little like a common journey; we may, after a day's traveling, lie down and rest, but we have on the morrow to set off again upon our travels: so I find my journey in life. I am not unfrequently permitted to come for a short time to a sweet, quiet resting-place; but I find that I soon have to set forth again. I was glad and relieved in leaving Aberdeen, and then a fresh work began in Edinburgh. On Seventh day we visited the prisons, accompanied by some gentlemen, the Lord Provost and others. Here we were much interested. On First-day we went in the morning to Meeting, and were favored to do well; many were not Friends; and what were my feelings in the evening to ând a considerable number of people, quite a Pub.ic Meeting. It gave me a great deal of alarm, but we had a good Meeting and I trust the cause was exalted. The morning before we came away about eighteen gentlemen and ladies came to breakfast with us, amongst them Sir George and Lady Grey, good people whom I have long wished to know: we had, after breakfast, a solemn time. Alexander Cruickshank read, and afterwards I knelt down, and I think we were drawn together in love and unity of spirit. We arrived at Glasgow that evening and the next day visited the prisons, and formed a Ladies Committee. We visited some families the next day, and, accompanied by seveial gentlemen, magistrates and others, we again went to the Bridewell and Prison, where I had to start the Com mittee in their proceedings; it was awful to me, having to bow the knee for a blessing, before so many who were strangers to our ways, but blessed be the Lord, the power of truth appeared to be over all, so that I remembered these words, 'Rejoice not that the spirits are made subject unto you, but rather rejoice that your names are written in Heaven.' We had two meetings, one in the morning for Friends, but many others came, and one to my deep humiliation in the evening for the public. Awful work it was: we

were favored to get through well, and to leave Glasgow with clear minds. We have since traveled through great part of Cumberland, attended many meetings there, some very important ones, and some highly favored by the Presence and Power of the Most High;-thence to Kendal..

"At Liverpool was the next meeting we attended; it was a large public one, and so it has been in many places. I deeply felt it, I hardly dared to raise my eyes because of the feathers and ribbons before me. However best help was afforded, to my very great relief and consolation; truth appeared to be in great dominion. After a sweet uniting time with the Benson family, we left Liverpool for Knowsley, the seat of the Earl of Derby, as we had a pressing invita tion from Lady Derby. We were received with the utmost kindness and openness by all this very large household. A palace was now our allotment; a cottage has been so during our journey. My internal feeling was humiliation and selfabasement:

"Knowsley, 24th.-Here we are, all the family about to be collected for a religious opportunity. Lord, be pleased to be with us, to own us by Thy life-giving presence, and help us by Thy Spirit, for it is a very awful time. Make us, Thy unworthy children, fit for Thy service, and touch our lips as with a live coal from Thy altar, for we are unworthy to take Thy great and ever-excellent name into our mouths. Thou, Lord, only knowest the state of Thy unworthy servant; help her infirmities, blot out her transgressions, and enable her to show forth Thy praise, if consistent with Thy holy will, that all may be more abundantly converted unto Thee, and brought into the knowledge of Thy beloved Son, Christ Jesus our Lord.

"Sheffield, 26th.-After writing the above I was summoned into the dining-room, where the family were assembled-I should think in all nearly a hundred. My beloved brother read the third chapter of John; there was then a solemn pause, and I found it my place to kneel down, pray,