FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1870.

To-day we have been into our harvest, with all our might. Mr. Tisdale helped us with his boy. We got our eleven-acre-field about two-thirds done and nearly up in shock. We find the wheat quite as good as we expected, and it is so plump that it shells now although the straw is green. "The fruits of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, faith, goodness, temperance." This is the fruit that God expects. Shall we not strive with His grace to do all He expects of us?

SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1870.

Our calculations for today were reversed by rain. We have been cuting thistles &c. most of the time, or rather the boys have, while I have been working at my waggon-rack. "Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God." "Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds." "Make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereoff." This doctrine does not agree with human nature consequently it requires great grace to fulfill it.