I Love To Live Alone

In Prayer I Was Exceedingly Enlarged, And My Soul Was As Much Drawn Out As I Ever Remember It To Have Been In My Life. I Was In Such Anguish, And Pleaded With So Much Earnestness And Importunity, That When I Rose From My Knees I Felt Extremely Weak And Overcome; I Could Scarce Walk Straight; My Joints Were Loosed; The Sweat Ran Down My Face And Body; And Nature Seemed As If It Would Dissolve.

Oh! It Is Sweet To Be Thus Weaned From Friends, And From Myself, And Dead To The Present World, That So I May Live Wholly To And Upon The Blessed God!

Oh, How Precious Is Time, And How It Pains Me To See It Slide Away, While I Do So Little To Any Good Purpose.

This Morning About Nine I Withdrew To The Woods For Prayer. I Was In Such Anguish That When I Arose From My Knees I Felt Extremely Weak And Overcome. ...i Cared Not How Or Where I Lived, Or What Hardships I Went Through, So That I Could But Gain Souls For Christ.

I Board With A Poor Scotchman: His Wife Can Talk Scarce Any English.