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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN B. GOUGH.
tempted and tried to seek for strength from Him who is
“a refuge, a very present help in time of trouble.”
I remember reading of a picture, in which a beautiful
child was represented blindfold, walking on the edge of a
fearful precipice, so sweetly and calmly confident, that
you wondered, till in looking more closely you saw a
guardian angel, dimly defined, the wings lost in the mists
above, that with two slender taper fingers, one on each of
the child’s shoulders, was gently and safely guiding it on
its path.
So, oh, my Father, may thy loving hand support me,
and my prayer be ever: “Hold thou me up, and I shall
be safe.”
CHAPTER XL
LECTURES.
It is not my intention to give a diary of my work from
this time, or even to attempt a connected detail of the
] laces I have visited, or dates, from 1843. That would
be tedious and unprofitable. I wish to note some of the
incidents connected with my work, and shall take them,
as nearly as possible, in the order of time in ■which they
occurred. The sphere of my operations soon became
extended, and I delivered lectures iu Worcester, Suffolk,
and Norfolk counties, and in the border towns of Ver¬
mont, New Hampshire, and in the city of Providence. I
have kept, from May 14,1843, to the present date, a correct
record of every place I have visited for work; the number
of miles I have travelled; the number of names obtained
to the pledge at my meetings; the families or hbtels where