back again, or to any other place that he would appoint. I entreated the Lord to speak plainly that I might not mistake, as I now did not understand the voice.

I told the Lord, that on the next morning I would put up a bill, and if the house let that day to any one that would suffer me to stay till the Fourth of July was over, (as he knew my embarrassments with my goods,) then I should know for what he was contending with me; but if that was not the case, that he would take away the disquietude of my spirit, and let me manage my business as I had done before. I retired to my rest that night with a quiet calmness on my mind, and my rest was sweet. This was the third week I had been in the house, and not an hour's quietness had I known till this never to be forgotten night.

In the morning I put up a bill on my house, according to agreement made, and felt composed in spirit, believing that that day would decide the difficulty between my Lord and me. About two hours after, there came a man who enquired after the rent, and took the house. He asked me when I could make it convenient to move; I told him I could not quit the house till after the Fourth of July. He said that would answer; and if it did not suit me to take away my furniture, I might leave it in the upper part

of the house. Oh! what a conspicuous answer to my prayers! My soul now rejoiced in God my Saviour. I was filled with tranquillity and sweetness of spirit. I praised him all the day long. I had not a moment's concern about my future settlement; I left it with the Lord.

The Providences were now all in my favour. I sold off my goods, and did beyond all my expectations. I quitted the house the fifth of July, and waited to see whither the Lord would direct my steps. One day as I was walking in the city, I met a young woman who had worked for me. She had heard of my loss, and asked me if I was in business. I told her, No. She said there was an opening in Poughkeepsie, as she and her father's family had been living there during the time of the war, and were going to remove to the South, now that the war was over; that they had done business to advantage, and wished me to go up and take their shop. After this, her father called on me, and persuaded me to go up and take the place. I did so, believing the Lord was directing my steps. Many petitions did I send up to my Heavenly Father, not to let me go without his favour and presence.

It was now October, and the communion was to be administered in Mr. Bork's church, where I was a member. When I approached the table, I heartily

thanked the Lord for the shepherd and pasture, under whom, and in which I had so long been feeding, and both of which I was now about to leave. And as I did not know how my soul would fare where I was going, I begged he would be my prophet and shepherd, to teach and feed me himself.

CHAPTER V.

Extending from her removal to Poughkeepsie until her visit to England.

UPON my settlement in Poughkeepsie, I had many difficulties to encounter through small business,-a heavy rent and a long winter. Nevertheless Providence worked in my favour, and my mind was kept free and open for business. But in the Spring of the year, my blessed Jesus, who did not send me there without his blessing, caused another shower of business to pour in on me, as when he brought me back from Baltimore to New York. Having now a comfortable habitation, and an excellent business, the work of my hands prospered. There was nothing in my temporal concerns to disquiet me, and my mind was quiet and easy, being confident that the Lord had directed my steps. Here I would fain have made my nest; being content to lay as the young man utterly fallen; for as yet I had not been set on my feet, in that matter of faith, in which I had fallen. And as to this dark piece of exercise, I would have been glad

to have given it up, if I could but have been able to see my way to heaven; for I often told the Lord, as Mary did at her brother Lazarus' grave, 'Lord, by this time, he stinketh;' for the Providences, as I have before observed, had as much buried the money, and it was as dead as Lazarus was in the grave.

But I had another difficulty. There was no minister in this place that could feed my soul; neither did any of the people know me; neither did I find any that understood the way by which the Lord had led me. I was one day asking of the Lord to make me known to the people, as he had sent me to live, and for aught I knew, to die amongst them. But the Lord held up to my view Abraham and Isaac sojourning in the land of the Philistines, because the famine was in the land. But they were only strangers, and were to remain no longer than until the famine was over; it was not the place of their rest. So they were strangers in the land. This made me satisfied to remain a stranger, because I understood by this, that I was not to stay or die in this place. I then asked the Lord this favour, that if there was one in the place, either male or female, that could understand me, that he would send such an one to me; as I had no one to speak to of things that concerned my soul's salvation. Not long after this, there came an experimental old man from Yorkshire, England, whose conversation was very profitable to me.