and she being an orphan I thought I could help her, for pure religion is doing good for the widow and the orphan. I boarded at Mrs Lufkin's until warm weather and Caroline Dammers boarded with me and worked on the Suffolk. It being too far for her to walk in warm weather I proposed to change my boarding place to make it nearer for her. Mr Lufkin's sister was about opening a boarding house on the Boot corporation. I had become somewhat acquainted with her at her brother's and liked her very much while her brother's folks went on a visit to their friends. Here was the only time that ever I was sick or needed any medical assistance. My stomach was a little nauseated and I sent for Dr Wheelock Graves and he gave me an emetic: afterwards I called upon him once and got a receipe for a cough and paid him; this was in the summer of 1840. My health was always delicate, but I was very careful what I did; very seldom went out evenings, not so much as to an evening meeting or to expose myself to the evening air in any way, hoping that at some future period I should be so situated as to be able to live more devoted to the blessed cause of Christ; but I endeavored to show piety at home. I had embraced the views that the day of judgment was near at hand and I felt to double my diligence to obtain the means to spread the Gospel. I loved God and the people of God, for where sin abounded grace much more abounded, I felt a desire that God would pour out his holy spirit and that sinners might be converted, and began to call upon the Lord and to my surprise I found myself in a back-slidden state; that I had lost the liberty whereby Christ had made me free.