Till then you cmd othert must be content to labour, and what is
often worse, to beg, however painful and disagreeable the task
may be, and we must pray unceasingly that the silver and gold



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(which after all are not man*s but the Lord's) may be cast into
your several funds with a liberal and ungrudging hand. I was
much pleased to see many of this congregation with the prayer
books they had brought from their mother land, and to hear
them make the responses in an audible and feeling manner. Not
more than seven miles distant from them there is an Irish Set-
tlement with a few English families. These congregations, with
those which could be quickly gathered by a zealous and devoted
man, would afford an ample field for the service of a resident
minister. In fact, there is an extensive sphere of labour for three
clergymen, or even four, alreadv settled in the townships of Lon-
don, Biddulph, M'Gillavray, ana Osborn. With an anxious desire
to serve them, (and which is yet very inadequately performed) I
may say I am riding and preaching every day, and if I set apart
a day for writing or other avocations, I find I am always c^ed
away either to visit a sick person, or to baptize a child at some
remote comer of the settlement. Tliis very day I had arranged
to make good my promise in April, which has already been
delayed too long, but I was scarcely dressed when a person ar-
rived from a distance, to request I would accompany him and
baptize a child which they apprehended to be dying — so not
bemg able to return till very late, I now sit down in naste (at
nearly midnight) to fill up this sheet, fearing you may be sur-
prised, and your friends disappointed by my delay ; but should I
put off again until I return from the appointment, to which I start
at seven m the morning, it is very possible, (indeed more than pro-
bable,)that a very long delay would be the result. I have succeed-
ed in establishing a large Sabbath school in the township of
London. The attendance is from 90 to 100. I have so arranged
as alternately to examine the boys and girls. 