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for ever impressed upon my mind. In <date>September</date> I
<sic>sat</sic>  <corr>set</corr> out on my Journey return, and arrived safe and
well again in <placename>Fulneck</placename>, at the <date>beginning of October</date> the
-same year. ----------- Having now spent 28 years in
the Service of the Cong<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> at <placename>Fulneck</placename> including two years
in Smith-house, of which 23 and a half have been spent
at the same time in the Service of the two Child<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n's</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> <sic>Oeconomies</sic>  <corr>Economies</corr>
on account of my great age and increasing weakness I 
have been directed to deliver up the care of the Schools
to <persname>B</persname><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><persname>r</persname></hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi><persname> & S</persname><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><persname>r</persname></hi></hi><persname> Steinhaner</persname> which was done in <date>October 1793</date>
I will now only add a few words concerning my abode in
this place. From the time of my arrival here in <placename>Fulneck</placename>
from <placename>Germany</placename> in <date>1751</date>, <emotion>I got and retained a very par
-ticular attachment to this place and Congregation,</emotion> and
when I was called from hence to <placename>bedford</placename> in <date>1757</date>, <emotion>I felt much
pain of mind at leaving it, than I ever remember to have
felt at leaving any other place before,</emotion> and the same at
-tachment I have retained ever since, tho' I must at the
same time honestly confess, that in none of all the other places
in <placename>England</placename>, where I have been stationed from time to time
I ever experienced, what I at certain periods have experienced
at this place, of painful and trying difficulties. But my
ever faithful Lord comforted and supported me under it all
and put an end to all these things himself in his own time
and way, and <emotion>my love for </emotion><placename><emotion>Fulneck</emotion></placename><emotion> never on account of what
-ever troubles I have met with, diminished or changed,</emotion>
whatever I believed to be according to the mind of our Saviour
and the principles and rules of his house, and of course to the