Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. COMMENCES PREACHIKG AS AN EXHORTER. He now attended school for a short time, but with constant thoughts of the great work of preaching the gospel. Soon after this, Elder Peter Young gave him an invitation to journey with him a few days. Their first meeting was at Amesbury Mills, from whence they went to Daniel Tuxbury's and to Newton; then to Salisbury Point, and on to the house of Brad- street Gilman, in New Market, and then to a general meeting at the Plains meeting-house. Here he met Elders J. Hazen, Jeremiah Bullock and his father, and others. From this meeting he returned home, having enjoyed much comfort in recommending Christ to the people. The next week he set out on another excursion as an exhorter. At Seabrook, Elder Osborne, who was expected, failed coming, and he spoke, under a sense of duty, from Rom. viii. 6, with great freedom. After visiting Portsmouth, he went to Kittery and York, Berwick and Madbury, then to New Market and Nottingham. Through these journeys he was encouraged by Elder Young to improve his gift. Passing through Deerfield, he went to Allenstown, arid spent the Sabbath. After meeting, in a place of solitary retirement, all his views and impressions in relation to preaching the gospel rushed upon him, so as nearly to crush him to the earth. His bitter lamenta- tions were poured out in tears and cries before God. When he returned to the house, sister Young said to him, " Have you been groaning your life out before the Lord." He then burst into sobs and tears, and when inquired of by another, " What is the matter ? " he replied, " Nothing more than always is;" by which he meant that the impressions to give himself to preaching the gospel were continually upon him. They next went on through Concord to Hopkinton, to attend a genera...