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morning I spoke on the difference between being a Christian and a happy
Christian, and showed, whence it generally comes, that we rejoice so
little in the Lord. This my first testimony was blessed to many believers,
that God, as it appears, might show me that He was with me. Among others
it proved a blessing to a Christian female, who had been for ten years in
bondage, and who, in the providence of God, had been brought from Exeter
to be present that morning. This she told me many months after, when I met
her on a journey.

At the request of several believers I spoke again in the afternoon, and
also proposed a meeting in the chapel every morning at ten, to expound the
epistle to the Romans. I had also most days a meeting in a room with
several ladies, for reading the Scriptures with them. This I did that I
might make the best of my fortnight. The second day after my arrival, a
brother said to me: "I have been praying for this month past that the Lord
would do something for Lympstone, a large parish where there is little
spiritual light. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and I doubt not you would be
allowed to preach there." Being ready to speak of Jesus wherever the Lord
might open a door, yet so, that I could be faithful to the truths which he
had been pleased to teach me, I went, and easily obtained liberty to
preach twice on the next day, being the Lord's day. Besides this I
preached in another village near Exmouth; so that I spoke once, twice, or
three times in public or private meetings every day for the first ten or
twelve days, and that with great enjoyment to my own soul.

During the first days of January, 1830, whilst at Exmouth, it became more
and more clear to me, that I could not be connected with the Society under
the usual conditions; and as I had an abundance of work where I was, and
little money to spend in traveling (for all I possessed was about five
pounds), it appeared best to me to write at once to the committee, that,
whilst they were coming to a decision respecting me, I might continue to
preach. I therefore wrote to them, stating what had been my views before I
became acquainted with them, and what they were now. I also stated my
difficulty in remaining, connected with them on the usual terms, as stated
in substance above; and then concluded, that as, however, I owed them
much, as having been instrumental in bringing me to England, where the
Lord had blessed me so abundantly: and as I, also, sho