low ground of the hearts of professors seemed to be completely broken
up. On Thursday night I was in the country, but was told the
prayer-meeting was the largest that had been held for two years. On
Sunday evening we had prayer-meeting after preaching. Several came to
the altar, two or three of whom found peace. I closed it at nine
o'clock, but some stayed and others came in, and it was kept up until
near one o'clock in the morning. On Monday night the altar was
surrounded with penitents, and the meeting, I was told (for I was not
there), was better than any former one, and was kept up until after
midnight. At our preachers and leaders' meeting last night there was a
good time. We have preaching and prayer-meeting again to-night. We have
formed the leaders' meeting of both chapels into one, to the
satisfaction of the brethren on both sides. I now begin to hope for
better times. My soul was bowed down like a bulrush for some days after
I came here. But I thank God I have a hold upon the salvation of Christ
that I had not felt for a long time before; and I do believe the Lord
our God will help us and bless us. I have preached at Waterloo twice
since I came down. The last time, several penitents came to the altar;
two professed to find peace, but it was upon the whole a dry time to me.
They are hard cases there. I attended a very blessed quarterly meeting
on the Isle of Tanti, on Thursday last. It was the best day to my own
soul that I have experienced for years.

I feel like a man liberated from prison; but I have reason to believe
that the people are in general amazingly disappointed in my pulpit
exercises. They expected great things--things gaudy, stately, and
speculative,--and I gave them the simplest and most practical things I
can find in the Bible, and that in the plainest way. You would be amused
at the sayings of some of the plain Methodist people; they think that it
is the "real pure Gospel, but they did not expect it so, from that
quarter." I am told that Dr. Barker has said in his _Whig_, that my
"pulpit talents are nothing." I am very glad to have this impression go
abroad; it will relieve me from distressing embarrassments, and enable
me to do much more good in a plain way; for I know the utmost I can
attain in the pulpit is to make things plain, and sometimes forcible.

We had a very blessed prayer-meeting last night, after preaching. A
considerable number of penitents came to the altar, and some found
peac