TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1870.

Started the plough this morning but found the ground too weat evern on the Slice hill. The boy & I have been working in the orchard trimming trees &c. while Charley has been busy at different jobs. Another happy day has passed. Happy because of the presence of my master. Happy because of the inward consciousness that the life I now live in the flesh, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. The language of earth cannot, even faintly, describe the blessedness of such an existence. Neither could the worldly understand it.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1870.

This forenoon Charly and I got a couple of booms from Walters' place. This afternoon we comenced farming in earnest. Sowed four bushells of barley and got it nearly harrowed in. Mr & Mrs Hall came out this afternoon and made us a visit Sold them a cow for thirty five dollars. Diligent in business and fervent in spirit-s{?} serving the Lord. This is my mottoe, and I am striving continually to fulfill all its requirements; & I find that by the grace of God alone{?} is possible to even partially to succeed.