t in the Lord does not
depend upon the multitude of believers, by whom we are surrounded. As to
the second point, perhaps the last day may show, that the Lord had some
work for me in Berlin: for, from the time of my coming until I left, I
preached three, four, or five times every week in the wards of a
poorhouse, which was inhabited by about three hundred aged and infirm
people. I also preached once in a church, and likewise visited one of the
prisons several times on Lord's days to converse with the prisoners about
their souls, where I was locked in by the keeper with the criminals in
their cells.

On the whole my time in Berlin was not lost; and I was in a better state
of heart than I had been for any length of time before, I was not once
overcome by my former outward besetting sins, though I have nothing to
boast of even as it regards that period; and were only the sins of those
days brought against me, had I not the blood of Jesus to plead, I should
be most miserable. But I think it right to mention, for the glory of God,
as I have so freely spoken about my falls, that whilst I was more than
ever unobserved by others; and whilst I was living in the midst of more
gaiety and temptations than ever; and had far more money than at any
previous time of my life; I was kept from things of which I had been
habitually guilty in my unconverted days!--My health was in a very weak
state, almost the whole time whilst I was staying in Berlin, and was in no
degree better, till, on the advice of, a believing medical professor, I
gave up all medicine.

Having now without any further difficulty obtained my passport, I left
Berlin on February 3rd, 1829, for London. The Lord gave me more grace on
my way from Berlin than on my way to it; for my mouth was almost
immediately opened to my fellow-travelers, and the message of the Gospel
seemed to be listened to with interest, particularly by one. On February
5th I arrived at my father's house; it was the place where I had lived as
a boy, and the scene of many of my sins, my father having now returned to
it after his retirement from office. I came to it with peculiar feelings.
These feelings were not excited merely by the fact of my having been seven
years absent from it, but arose from the spiritual change I had undergone
since I last saw the place; for I had never been at Heimersleben since my
father fetched me from thence, which was a few days after my imprisonment
at Wolfenbuettel had co