14. Came to Guildford to spend a few days with my dear Sarah Birkbeck, who is in a declining state of health.

15. I think I was enabled to centre for a while in the silence of all flesh, this morning at meeting. In the afternoon staid with Sarah Birkbeck, our time not spent unprofitably, I trust.

17. A precious contriting season in sitting with the little handful at this place. After it, met with an exercise of Christia patience; which, I trust, I bore with becoming meekness.

20. Not so watchful as I should have been, from which I suffered loss.

21. My dwelling hath been much in the valley this day: a lowly, but a safe situation.

22. Sitting down this morning at meeting, in much abasement, I was favoured to feel something of the healing waters dispensed to my thirsty soul: a favour I esteemed myself unworthy of. The afternoon, did not maintain the watch so steadily as I ought to have done.

25. Have been too much dissipated and in the mixture; yet have at times mourned my thraldom and breathed for deliverance.

26." Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge." Mayest thou, O my soul, open thine ear to instruction.

29. I thought the morning meeting a preciously favoured season, dear Susanna Horne had a word of encouragement to hand to the mourners in Zion, and an invitation to the youth, to come, taste,

and see how good the Lord is to those that love and fear his name. The afternoon not so lively, S. H. had a sitting in brother Kidd's family, and: with my beloved Sybilla Turnour in her chamber, whom she endeavoured to encourage to come forward in the Christian race: concluding with this passage, "Come up hither, I will show thee "the bride, the Lamb's wife."

SECOND MONTH, 1804.

12. A variety of circumstances have combined within the last two weeks to harrass my mind, so much so, as almost entirely to preclude that quiet, and settledness so desirable, and which I have at seasons pressed after, and of course disqualified me from minuting down my feelings as they occurred.

19. Deeply humbling were my views of myself this day; yet some encouragement was also administered, through adorable condescension.

21. I have considered the station I stand in as awful, some looking towards me for example and help. O that I was indeed qualified for a waymark; but instead thereof how often have I to mourn over my leanness and poverty.

24. A time of searching of heart to-day in our little silent meeting: an employ I desire to be often found in.

26. My mind, through unwatchfulness, got

entangled in a snare, spread before it, I doubt not, by the enemy of all good, in order to divert its attention, on my first sitting down at meeting; but after a while the good Remembrancer, being also near, showed me my folly; to whom I cried for deliverance, and was enabled to press through and touch the hem of his garment, and found healing virtue to flow from him.

THIRD MONTH, 1804.

3. Much beset with evil: yet trust through divine assistance the warfare is still measurably maintained.

4. Still weak and poor every way, yet I trust not forsaken. What a mercy!

7. Faint yet pursuing.

9. A little revival of my faith and confidence this morning, in our little silent gathering.

II. Came to, Guildford to see dear Sarah Birkbeck, who is in all human probability hastening towards, I trust, a better country.

14. My time pretty fully taken up, in attending my dear friend; yet I think I have been preserved in a good degree of watchfulness and favoured with peaceful serenity.

17. A trying day and night, in beholding the conflict of our dear friend in putting off the shackles of mortality; which she was mercifully

released from about twenty minutes before eight o'clock this morning, which we that had been witness to her sufferings esteemed a favour. Some hours before the solemn close, as dear Morris Birkbeck and I were sitting together, a sweet calm spread over our minds, which seemed to me like an evidence, that his dear wife's spirit was near centering beyond the reach of pain and

sorrow.

18. Morris Birkbeck was strenghtened to get out to meeting to-day, where he supplicated for resignation. It was to my poor wearied mind at refreshing season, feeling something of the holy unction to rest upon it.

20. Was desirous of digging deep, that I might be favoured with the renewed discovery of the ancient foundation, which was in great condescension vouchsafed.

25. Several friends came to attend the burial of dear Sarah Birkbeck. The meeting was held in silence, but I thought the forepart, particularly, was covered with a degree of solemnity.

24. Was jealous over myself that I had not attained to that strength and stature designed for me, had I been more watchful and stable. May this jealousy and fear excite me to ponder well the path of my feet.

29. Pretty much engaged the remainder of the week, in preparing for leaving home; yet not I trust to the entire neglect of the one thing needful.

May I ever chuse this better part, and then I have faith to believe, it will never be taken from me.

FOURTH MONTH, 1804.

1. Some renewal of my spiritual strength. Left home this evening.

3. The quarterly meeting. I thought it a more favoured season than it is often our lot to experience at such times; and the business got through more satisfactorily; for which I felt a degree of thankfulness: as well as in beholding some growth, as I apprehended, in some of our young members.

5. Set forward for Alton, in company with Morris Birkbeck, at which place the yearly meeting's committee met, as proposed at parting in the twelfth month.

18. This morning, after a contriting season together, our little company began to separate in the fresh feeling of that love, which had sweetly united us in moving along through this arduous engagement: for which, with many other blessings dispensed, I desire to be reverently thankful.

21. Since my return home, although I have felt unusually impoverished, yet a degree of peaceful quiet has accompanied my mind, and some aspirations after increasing dedication and conformity of will to the Divine will.