FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1870.

We are now having a very weat time. It has rained nearly all day and rains still. The boys have not been able to do much. Mother and I went out to Dover this morning and I was in a great way to get back on account of the seeding, but it did me no good after all. "And he spake a parable unto them, to this end, that men ought always to pray and not to faint. This passage has again been a word in Season to my soul to day. The Lord has made me to feel the need of a certain blessing but only in Him.

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1870.

On account of the wet weather we could not do anything on the farm to day. I sent Charley to mill with a grist of wheat While I had the boy pulling or digging out stumps. This afternoon Mother and I went down to the New Credit{?} Mission where our friend Rev. Thomas Woolsey{?} is stationed at present. Mrs. Coppway came to go with us. We found the roads very bad but got there all right and found our friends all well and in very comfortable circumstances.

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