TUESDAY, MAY 10 ,1870.

We are ploughing still, although the ground is very wet. Unckle Homes is doing a little job for us to day, plastering up a door in my bedroom. This afternoon I have been cleaning up the yard, burning brush &c, while the boy has been ploughing in my place. The weather, is, I think geting settled again. I am trying to take that matter to the Lord, with reference to the hired girl. I have always found Him a very present help in times of trouble and still I feel that no other can deliver.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1870.

The boys worked at ploughing again to-day, in the ten-acre field. I have been busy working arround the yard all day geting things straightened up a little. The past, has been a happy day. I feel that my desire to live and move and have my being in God, even while I tabernackle in the the body, is being realised in a glorious measure. Isnt this a wonderful prvelege, and yet it is mine. The Lord has been leading me too day in a remarkable manner.

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