or two, give the people a sermon one after another, besides the love-feast, and (now) the sacrament. On Saturday 9. I set off with the friends to Brother Martin's, in whose barn I preached that day. The next day I administered the sacrament to a large company, and preached, and after me the two travelling preachers. We had now been six hours and a half engaged in duty, and I had published myself to preach in the neighbourhood for the three following days, so they deferred the second love-feast till Wednesday. There were thirty strangers, I think, in Brother Martin's house only, which obliged us to lie three in a bed. I had now for the first time a very little persecution. The testimony I bore in this place against slave-holding, provoked many of the unawakened to retire out of the barn, and to combine together to flog me (so they expressed it) as soon as I came out. A high-headed lady also went out, and told the rioters (as I was afterwards informed) that she would give fifty pounds, if they would give that little Doctor one hundred lashes. When I came out, they surrounded me, but had only power to talk. Brother Martin is a justice of the peace, and seized one of them; and Colonel Taylor, a fine, strong man, who has lately joined us, but is only half-awakened, was setting himself in a posture of fighting. But God restrained the of rage the multitude. Our Brother Martin has done gloriously, for he has fully and immediately emancipated fifteen slaves. And that sermon which made so much noise, has so affected one of our brethren (Brother Norton) that he came to Brother Martin, and desired him to draw up a proper instrument for the emancipation of his eight slaves. A brother (whose name is Ragland) has also emancipated one.

Monday 11. I preached at Brother Baker's,

Here a mob came to meet me with staves and clubs. Their plan, I believe, was to fall upon me as soon as I touched upon the subject of slavery. I knew nothing of it till I had done preaching; but not seeing it my duty to touch on the subject here, their scheme was defeated, and they suffered me to pass through them without molestation.

Tuesday 12. I rode to Brother Kennon's, preaching a funeral sermon in the way at a planter's house for a little child, and reading our burial service in the wood over the grave. They have a funeral sermon preached in these parts for every human creature that dies, except the Blacks.Brother Kennon has emancipated twenty-two slaves. These are great sacrifices; for the slaves are worth, I suppose, upon an average, thirty or forty pounds sterling each, and perhaps more.

Wednesday 13. I had a good time at the lovefeast after preaching at Brother Kennon's. Brother Martin's wife is an excellent saint.

Thursday 14. We rode about forty miles to a brother of Mr. Kennon. There are nine of the family in society. I have now done with my testimony against slavery for a time, being got into North Carolina again, the laws of this state forbidding any to emancipate their Negroes. Friday 15. I preached here to a small congregation.

Saturday 16. I rode to a dissenting meetinghouse, in which the pious minister (Mr. Patillo) gave our friends leave to hold their quarterlymeeting. Mr. Patillo and I preached that day and Sunday, and one of our preachers also on the Sunday.

Monday 18. I rode to Colonel Taylor's, a sincere friend and brother, who is overjoyed at our late regulations. They got a little company together in the evening.

Tuesday 19. We came to Brother Greenhill's, where we held our conference. There were about twenty preachers, or more, in one house, and by laying beds on the floors, there was room for all. We spent three days, from Wednesday to Friday inclusive, in conference, and a comfortable time we had together. In this division we have had an increase of nine hundred and ninety-one this year; and have stretched our borders into Georgia.Beverley Allen has all Georgia to range in. We also sent an elder and a preacher to South Carolina. Mr. Asbury has met with great encouragement in his visit to Charles Town; a merchant (Mr. Wells) opened his house to him, and was convinced and justified before he went away. We have now one hundred and ten members in that state by the assiduity of a local preacher, who lately settled there. We have also drawn up a petition to the general assembly of North Carolina, signed by the conference, intreating them to pass an act to authorize those who are so disposed, to emancipate their slaves. Mr. Asbury has visited the governor, and has gained him over.

Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Saturday 23. We rode about forty-five miles to Brother Tignel Jones's, to a quarterly-meeting which we held on the Sunday and Monday. Here I bore a public testimony against slavery, and have found out a method of delivering it without much offence, or at least without causing a tumult; and that is, by first addressing the negroes in a very pathetic manner on the duty of servants to masters; and then the whites will receive quietly what I have to say to them. Sister Jones is a very precious woman. I had a fine congregation at five on Monday morning. The people in general in this part of the country, and also in the back parts of North Carolina, eat only two meals a day; the first

about nine in the morning, and the second about four or five in the afternoon. They eat flesh at both meals. Our people in general drink coffee with the first meal, and water with the second.The people of the world drink either coffee or cyder with the first meal, and grog or cyder with the second. Their animal food is almost entirely pig-meat, with sometimes shad-fish. I have hardly eat any thing these ten weeks of the flesh kind, except swine's-flesh and shad-fish.Blessed be God, I have been enabled to set apart Friday as a day of fasting or abstinence ever since Christmas, except one day when I forgot, and one day when I travelled fifty-two miles. In the morning I eat a little bread, and drink some milk, and in the afternoon eat some greens, (the only garden-stuff they have got in this part of the country) and some fruit-pie. They have a great variety of fruit-pies, peach, apple, pear, and cran berry, and puddings very often. I esteem it one great blessing, that I prefer the Indian corn ta the wheat. Besides they do not in general manage their wheat properly in the south, so that the wheat-bread is but very indifferent. The people in general, and more especially our own friends, go to bed very early (about nine o'clock) and rise early, about five, or day-break.

Tuesday 26. I again visited kind Brother Downing, and preached that day, and the next morning at five. On Wednesday I set off for the quarterly-meeting at Brother Rogers's, in Brunswick County, and had a very refreshing time; in the way I preached an awakening discourse, which, I have some reason to think did good.

Saturday 30. I set off with a company of preachers, who by this time had met me, for the Virginia conference. In the morning I preached and administered the sacrament at Brother Merrit's

Sunday, May 1-4. About twenty preachers met Mr. Asbury and me at Brother Mason's. One night we all slept at the same house; but it was so inconvenient for some of the preachers, that they afterwards divided themselves through the neighbouring plantations, by which we lost about an hour in the mornings. A great many principal friends met us here to insist on a repeal of the slave-rules; but when they found that we had thoughts of withdrawing ourselves entirely from the circuit on account of the violent spirit of some leading men, they drew in their horns and sent us a very humble letter, intreating that preachers might be appointed for their circuit. We have increased about two hundred in this division in the course of the last year. After mature consideration, we formed a petition, a copy of which was given to every preacher, intreating the general assembly of Virginia to pass a law for the immediate or gradual emancipation of all the slaves.It is to be signed by all the freeholders we can procure, and those I believe will not be few. There have been many debates already on the subject in the assembly. Many of our friends, and some of the great men of the states, have been inciting us to apply for acts of incorporation, but I have discouraged it, and have prevailed. We have a better staff to lean upon, than any this world can afford. We can truly say, "The harvest is great, but the

labourers are few."

Thursday 6. I took an affectionate farewel of my brethren: and on the 7th passed by the house of Mr. Jarrat, that violent assertor of the propriety and justice of negro-slavery. At noon I preached at White Oak Chapel, and lodged that night at the house of Brother Rees, one of our local preachers, a friend of God and man. He lives just by Mr. Jarrat, and is the great bar in