SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1870.

We finished up the ten-acre-field to day excepting clearing out the furrows. Besides this we cultivated up about four acres of wheat in front and I sowed most of it with barley. I went out to Dover to night and drove our two three-year-old colt to the buggy for the first time. Our girl Catherine left us to night in a very shabby way. But I hope that it will be for the best. Many of disappointments await us but I do hope that I may say with St. Paul, "None of these things move me.

SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1870.

If any man love the world the love of the father is not in him. We cannot serve two masters. O that I may serve Him with all my soul, with all my mind, with all my strength. We had our dear minister with us to dinner to day, besides several others who wanted to stay to our meeting this afternoon. There was a large turn out as it hapened to be the funeral sermon of James Dean's wife lately deceased. It fell to my lot to lead the class this afternoon. Had much liberty in performing my duties.

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