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    44 You will come again , Sir , " said the anxious parents in a low voice , as he crossed their threshold . Certainly ; next Sunday or sooner . ** And he felt pretty confident that Mrs . Harris would now finish her week ' s work on the Saturday night . 44 What has been done in this case , as in others , ** said M ., when , a few weeks after , he made his report to those under whose authority and by

    whose support his mission was conducted , —** what has been done appears trifling in the detail , but I am sure it is important in reality . We have no sudden reformation to boast of . These people have not yet attended public worship ; they have not yet taken to reading the Bible , and I have not seen them in such a state that I could mention prayer to them . If they had , like others under my charge , needed assistance from our purse , the work would have been quickened ; but it is proceeding . It is something

    that they make a friend of me . It is something to have engaged them in any kind of observance of the Lord ' s-day , and to have united the family in any common interest , if it be only listening to the Bible stories I relate to the child . I have further reason to hope that the season of greater progress is at hand *' 44 What reason ?**

    44 Last Sunday , having gone early on purpose , I rose to depart when the first bell sounded , saying that the time for service was too precious to be always sacrificed . I thought they looked wistfully after me , and I believe a word from me will ere long make them follow me . —And so convinced

    am I , from the changed tone of our intercourse , that any remarkable occurrence which may befell them , be it prosperous or adverse , will induce an expression of good feelings which are now strengthening in silence , that I watch in their case with peculiar interest , for the arrival of one of those outward changes which happen occasionally to all . If we could but gain

    tidings of the daughter " " It is not impossible . Devise the method , and the means shall not be wanting . You have done so much that it would be sinful to despair of the rest . Why should we hot remind one another that our office is that of the apostles of old ? It will strengthen us to proceed upon their principle , — that it is ours to plant and to water , trusting to God to give the increase . "

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    740 ' The Early Sowing .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 740, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/16/