the time, until the
Lord come."

After I had preached about three weeks at Exmouth and its neighbourhood,
I went to Teignmouth, with the intention of staying there ten days, to
preach the Word among the brethren with whom I had become acquainted
during the previous summer, and thus to tell them of the Lord's goodness
to me. One of the brethren said almost immediately on my arrival at
Teignmouth, I wish you would become our minister, as the present one is
going to leave us. My answer was, I do not intend to be stationary in any
place, but to go through the country, preaching the Word as the Lord may
direct me. In the evening, Monday, I preached for brother Craik, at
Shaldon, in the presence of three ministers, none of whom liked the
sermon; yet it pleased God, through it, to bring to the knowledge of His
dear Son, a young woman who had been servant to one of these ministers,
and who had heard her master preach many times. How differently does the
Lord judge from man! Here was a particular opportunity for the Lord to get
glory to Himself. A foreigner was the preacher, with great natural
obstacles in the way, for he was not able to speak English with fluency;
but he had a desire to serve God, and was by this time also brought into
such a state of heart as to desire that God alone should have the glory,
if any good were done through his instrumentality. How often has it struck
me, both at that time and since, that His strength was made perfect in my
weakness.

On Tuesday evening I preached at Ebenezer Chapel, Teignmouth, the same
chapel at the opening of which I became acquainted with the brother, whom
the Lord had afterwards used as an instrument of benefiting me so much. My
preaching was also disliked there by many of the hearers; but the Lord
opened the hearts of a few to receive the truth, and another young woman
was brought to the Lord through the instrumentality of the word then
preached. On Wednesday I preached again in the same chapel, and the word
was disliked still, perhaps more, though the few, who received the truth
in the love of it, increased in number. On Thursday I preached again at
Shaldon, and on Friday at Teignmouth. The effect was the same; dislike on
the one side, and joy and delight in the truth on the other. By this time
I began to reflect about the cause of this opposition; for the same
brethren who had treated me with much kindness the summer previous, when I
was less spiritually minded, and unders