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WET AND STORMY WEATHER 421
On Twesday I was att the Beill.
On wedensday with mr. starke att Beinston.1
On Thursday with my wife att Lochend.
Septr. 6.—Lect. on job 29 ; pr. on psa. 119, 11.
13.—Lect. on acts 13 ; pr. on rom. 5, 6.
Wedensday, 16.—Was a pbitry day where I was.
Thursday.—Mr. cumin and I went to stenton, and were
witnesses to the baptism of mr. starks son Robert, was all night
att-Spot, and returned on Fryday.
9.0th.—Lectured on ditto, and preacht on rom. 5, 7, 8.
The weather still rough and rainy.
Thursday, 24.—Coll11 Rae, my wifs uncle,2 came here, and
stayed till Twesday next.
91th.—Lectured on ditto; preacht in the fornoon on rom.
5, 7, 8 ; and in the aftarnoon on v. 9th. the weather turned
good.
Octobr. 1, Thursday.—Being a fast day in morham befor the
sacrament I preacht in the aftarnoon on gen. 3, 9; Mrs junki-
son and craig in the fornoon.
Saturnday, 3.—I preacht att oldhamstocks on Joshua 3, 5;
it was the ppara°n day befor the sacrament there; I served
two tables on the lords day, and in the aftarnoon preacht
on John 6, 67, 68 ; there were there of minfs besids Mr. currie,
minr of the place, and my self, Mre Brown, pow, and shaw;
it was a very sweet gospell day, seven tables. I lodged att
Dunglass and returned home on the moonday.
Wth.—I preacht att home on psa. 24, 7th, and lectured on
that psalme.
This lords day was most stormy and rainy, all our salt-
greens3 att Tyningham covered with watar, much late corn
destroyed, the like not seen for 40 years.
1 Beanston, in the parish of Prestonkirk, the residence of William Hepburn,
an elder in the parish, and a relation of Patrick Hepburn, the laird of Smeaton.
It was at one time a seat of the Earl of Wemyss.
2 A son of James Rae of Coltinghouse, in the parish of St. Ninian’s, Stirling¬
shire. He was probably the Major Adam Rae who registered arms in the Lyon
office in 1672-8.
3 This is the name still given to some meadows on the banks of the river Tyne,
immediately opposite, and a little to the south of, the old church, and present
1702

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