and the children placed under my care.  A few of our teachers determined to establish a school at I——­, a small village about two miles distance from H——­, in which the Wesleyans had preaching at a private house, and a class of five members, to whom I willingly gave my assistance.  But where should we get a room? was the next question to be solved.  After some difficulty on this point, we got the use of an old barn; but which, by the way, had no window in it, and was consequently so dark, that we were obliged to keep the door constantly open, and, it being winter season, we found it very cold.  Yet even this was too good to last long, for we were soon told that we could not have the barn any longer, and we were, therefore, obliged to look out for another place.  Our next remove was to a different part of the village, to a room over some stables, the floor of which, besides having sundry large holes in it, was so rotten that we were obliged to range the children around by the walls, fearing lest the floor should give way from their weight, if placed in the centre.  Even in such a place as this, our school increased from twenty to forty.

“After remaining in this room for some months, I may say truly, in continual fear of our lives, we removed to a much more commodious place, offered us by a Mr. H——­, the only person in the village who was in circumstances of ease.  But his love after a time grew cold, and we were surprised on our arrival one Sunday, to find that, without giving us the slightest intimation of his intention to do so, he had turned out forms, boxes of books, and all our paraphernalia, and locked the door; alleging as a reason, to the persons who lived at the next house—­members of our society—­that he wanted the place for potatoes; but to do him justice, I must add, that the room did not see a potato for many months after.  I have before stated that we had preaching at the village, in a private house; the persons in whose house the service was held, were, I should say, both past sixty.  They were poor, but excellent people.  At the same hour with our school, the class used to meet at their house; and as they had only two rooms, it met in the one in which preaching was held.  But no sooner did these good old people hear of our being turned out of our place, than they at once—­before our arrival—­got the forms and books into their house, and seated and arranged the children; so that you may judge of our surprise, when, on finding ourselves shut out from the one place, we were so unexpectedly put into the other.  These noble-minded Christians consented that the class should meet in their sleeping-room, and that we should have the use of the other for our school.  We could not allow such generous and self-denying devotion for the cause of God to go unrewarded, and we therefore determined to pay them a small sum per annum for the use of the room.