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 there, for my part I left it. At the Clifton meeting Mr. Newton, speaking of ministry and the points connected with it, told me that his principles were changed. I replied that mine were not: that I felt I had received them from the Lord’s teaching, and with his grace I should hold them fast to the end.

This however, subsequently went further. Mr. Newton got rid of Capt. Hall, at Plymouth. I do not enter into any details here, but I use advisedly the expression got rid of. This also was let pass; my own mind acquiesced in it, though grieved, because I felt it possible that there was a tendency to accumulate labourers on one spot; and that, in the want of spiritual energy which led them, God might use this as a means of sending the testimony further. In fact, the gathering at Hereford soon followed on this. Thus I consoled myself with what I felt the unhappy disposition of