eans.

January 28. I have, for these several days, again prayed much to
ascertain whether the Lord will have me to go as a missionary to the East
Indies, and I am most willing to go, if He will condescend to use me in
this way. January 29. I have been greatly stirred up to pray about going
to Calcutta as a missionary. May the Lord guide me in this matter! [After
all my repeated and earnest prayer in the commencement of 1835, and
willingness on my part to go, if it were the Lord's will, still He did not
send me.]

February 4. I have been praying repeatedly and earnestly of late
respecting my journey to the Continent. I desire to go, or not to go, just
as the Lord will have it to be. May He graciously direct me! I feel the
same about going to India. As a means to ascertain the Lord's will, I have
been reading about the Hindoos, that I may know more clearly the state in
which they are. May the Lord in mercy stir me up to care more about their
state, whether it be His will that I should labour personally among them,
or not!

February 16. I mentioned this evening, before the church at Bethesda, as
also on the 13th before the church at Gideon, that I see it the Lord's
will to go to the Continent, for the sake of assisting brother Groves by
my knowledge of the German language, in conferring with those who may
desire to go out as missionaries. There is not one believer amongst us who
sees any objection to it, and several have expressed that it seems to be
of the Lord, and that thus we could help, as churches, in the going forth
of missionaries. This is very comforting to me, as the Lord confirms me
still more, through this unanimity, in its being His will that I should go.

February 25. In the name of the Lord, and in dependence upon Him alone
for support, we have established a fifth Day-School for poor children,
which today has been opened. We have now two boys' schools, and three
girls' schools. February 26. This afternoon I left Bristol for the
Continent.

February 27. London. This morning I went to the Alien Office for my
passport. On entering the office I saw a printed paper, in which it is
stated that every alien neglecting to renew, every six months, his
certificate of residence which he receives on depositing his passport,
subjects himself to a penalty of L50, or imprisonment. This law I have
ignorantly broken ever since I left London in 1829. It appeared to me much
better to confess at once that I had ignorantly d