“If I go to Lawrenceburg, remember you can gain men easily if you get round their _prejudices_ and put truth in their minds; but _never_ if you attack _prejudices_. Look well at this.... ”_Mem._—My people must be alert to make the church agreeable, to give _seats_ and wait on _strangers_, etc.“ ”_June 15, Thursday._—To-day received call from Lawrenceburg, and a very flattering call it was and did my heart good. Meeting called June 12, 1837; about 30 persons present. Mr. Hunt, moderator; D. S. Mayer, sec. Vote for me unanimous. Blank filled for $250, with but one dissenting voice (he voting for double that sum).“ ”_Monday, July 10._—Sat. eve., 8th, arrived here permanently to remain.... “I mean to write down little plans and devices for _pastoral labor_ as they occur; I may else forget them. “1. In different districts get men quietly to feel _themselves_ responsible for progress of temperance or Sunday-schools. “2. Quietly to visit from house to house and secure congregations. “3. Secure a _large congregation_. Let this be the _first_ thing. For this— “1. Preach well uniformly. “2. Visit widely and produce a personal attachment; also wife do same. “3. Get the young to love me. “4. See that the church have this presented as a _definite_ thing, and set them to this work just as _directly_ as I would to raising a fund, building, etc. “4. Little girls’ societies for benevolent purposes.” The town was small, scarce fifteen hundred inhabitants, located at the junction of the Ohio and Miami rivers—just across the Miami from Ohio on the east, and the Ohio River from Kentucky on the south—subject to devastating floods from both rivers impartially. The church was small, with meagre accommodations, the people poor. We quote his description of the place and church: “You can form some conception of that field when I tell you that it was a place where they had four gigantic distilleries, from which was carried to market a steamboat-load of liquor every day. When I went there and entered upon my vocation of preaching, I found a church, occupying a little brick building, with nineteen or twenty members. There was one man, and the rest were women. With the exception of two persons, there was not one of them who was not obliged to gain a livelihood by the labor of the hands. So you will understand how very poor they were. I could not, of course, obtain my living in so small a church, and in a community that was not overblessed with wealth. I was taken up, therefore, as a pensioner by the Home Missionary Society, and my first two years were spent in the field as a missionary, in part supported by the funds of this society.