prosperous. Here, as teacher of one of the junior
classes, I strove to do my duty to God and the children placed under my
care. A few of our teachers determined to establish a school at I----, a
small village about two miles distance from H----, in which the Wesleyans
had preaching at a private house, and a class of five members, to whom I
willingly gave my assistance. But where should we get a room? was the
next question to be solved. After some difficulty on this point, we got
the use of an old barn; but which, by the way, had no window in it, and
was consequently so dark, that we were obliged to keep the door
constantly open, and, it being winter season, we found it very cold. Yet
even this was too good to last long, for we were soon told that we could
not have the barn any longer, and we were, therefore, obliged to look out
for another place. Our next remove was to a different part of the
village, to a room over some stables, the floor of which, besides having
sundry large holes in it, was so rotten that we were obliged to range the
children around by the walls, fearing lest the floor should give way from
their weight, if placed in the centre. Even in such a place as this, our
school increased from twenty to forty.

"After remaining in this room for some months, I may say truly, in
continual fear of our lives, we removed to a much more commodious place,
offered us by a Mr. H----, the only person in the village who was in
circumstances of ease. But his love after a time grew cold, and we were
surprised on our arrival one Sunday, to find that, without giving us the
slightest intimation of his intention to do so, he had turned out forms,
boxes of books, and all our paraphernalia, and locked the door; alleging
as a reason, to the persons who lived at the next house--members of our
society--that he wanted the place for potatoes; but to do him justice, I
must add, that the room did not see a potato for many months after. I
have before stated that we had preaching at the village, in a private
house; the persons in whose house the service was held, were, I should
say, both past sixty. They were poor, but excellent people. At the same
hour with our school, the class used to meet at their house; and as they
had only two rooms, it met in the one in which preaching was held. But no
sooner did these good old people hear of our being turned out of our
place, than they at once--before our arrival--got the forms and books
into their