MINISTRY AT TROWBRIDOB.
Mr. Rudman's account thus continues : Having Wd
ferewell to Upavon, I commenced my pastoral labours
at Trowbridge, May 6, 1849, taking on that occasion
those important words of Paul ; " But God forbid that I
should glory, save in the oross of our Lord Jesus Christ^



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by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto
the world."

The exercises connected witK this removal are very
illustrative of our brother, and as at this time he com-
menced a diaiy which he continued, with but little in-
termissions up to his last illness ; extracts from it will
shew us his inner man. And as they were written
down at the time, they have a more life-freshness than
is given by distant review.
This diary is commenced with his views for its being
kept, saying—

Saturday. — It having been long upon my mind to
set down, from day to day, the goodness, grace, and
mercy of a covenant God towards me, and also what
exercises of mind I am the subject of, I do now there-
fore commence it; sincerely desiring that the Lord
would enable me from time to time to continue it,
and make it profitable to my own soul in writing
it.
I received this morning, two letters; the one pressing
me to go to Wolverhampton for a month, but this I
have been compelled to refuse ; the other, from the
church at Reading, inviting me there for a month.
