ports, luggage out of the custom house, and places in the
diligence without difficulty, and left a little after ten in the morning
for Paris. What a blessed thing it is, in all such matters, to have a
Father to go to for help! What a different thing, also, to travel in the
service of the Lord Jesus, from what it is to travel in the service of the
flesh!

March 11. Paris. We arrived here about ten this evening. March 12. Today
we went about our passports, and I saw thus a good deal of the best part
of Paris. Blessed be God, my heart is above these things! If ten years
ago, when my poor foolish heart was full of Paris, I had come here, how
should I have been taken up with these palaces, &c.; but now I look at
these things, and my heart does not care about them, What a difference
grace makes! There were few people, perhaps, more passionately fond of
traveling, and seeing fresh places, and new scenes, than myself; but now,
since, by the grace of God, I have seen beauty in the Lord Jesus, I have
lost my taste for these things.

March 13. We again found difficulty in obtaining our passports, arising,
probably, from a mistake of the police officers. May the Lord order this
matter so, that it shall be for our real welfare!--March 14. By the help
of the Lord we obtained our passports, and brother Groves and I took our
places in the Malle Poste for Strasburg, to leave tomorrow evening.
Brother Y. intends to remain here a few days, on account of his health.

March 15. This morning I preached in a little chapel in Palais Royal. We
left Paris this evening at six.--March 17. From six o'clock in the evening
of the 15th, till this afternoon at half-past one, when we arrived at
Strasburg, We were continually shut up in the Malle Poste, with the
exception of yesterday morning about seven, and last night about eleven,
when we were allowed half an hour for our meals. I had refreshing
communion with my beloved brother. This quickest of all conveyances in
France carries only two passengers, and we were thus able freely to
converse and to pray together, which was refreshing indeed. Though we had
traveled forty-four hours, yet as we had soon finished our business at
Strasburg, we left this evening for Basle, trusting in the Lord for
strength for the third night's traveling. A little after we had started,
we stuck fast in a new road. I lifted up my heart to the Lord, and we were
soon delivered, otherwise the circumstance, in a cold night, and