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 Diary of Rev. George Gary 89 were in each other's way and comparatively had nothing to do but to take care of each other or tread on one an- other's toes, and within less than a year she gave her hand in wedlock to Mr. Holman, and is now busily em- ployed in rocking the cradle to quiet her second child. Wed. 19. I have been enjoining it upon Brother Lee [Leslie?] to keep a diary, in which the passing events of each day shall be entered, embracing the opportunities to do good his own feelings, in doing this good any pe- culiar events &c, &c, &c, and if nothing important transpired, his reading for the day, and his remarks con- cerning what he reads, and send the same to the Board. I think it altogether probable I shall find it easier to preach than to practice this diary lecture. This day I read Doctor Clark's general preface to his commentaries, in which I see not only his severe remarks concerning Doctor Coke, but his more just remarks concerning those calculations, or perhaps more properly speaking, prophe- cies of the end of the world, like Mr Miller and the Millerites as they are called in the States. Sat. 22nd. Returned to the hospital, Doctor Babcock's. Sab. 23rd. Preached in the granary about twenty hearers old and young. Mon. 24. Spent in reading books belonging to Doct. Babcock's professional library. Tues. 25. Visited Mr Smith and family. 11 Had a pleasant and religious interview. This visit will not be last. Wed. 26. Returned to the school, met most of the male members belonging to the M. E. Church in the region, at Rev. D. Leslie's in consultation about the state of our property connected with the Indian manual labor school. Their members have already made a beginning to establish a literary institution on the Wallace Prairie, about three miles from our Indian School, to be called 11 Probably Andrew Smith, immigrant with Dr. White's party, Octo- ber, 1842.