All these difficulties I suggested to my new friends without any reserve.

But nothing that I could urge would satisfy them.

They would not hear of a refusal, and I was obliged to give my consent, though I was not reconciled to the measure.
When I went into the church it was so full that I could scarcely get to my place; for notice had been publicly given, though I knew nothing of it, that such a discourse would be delivered.

I was surprised, also, to find a great crowd of black people standing round the pulpit.

There might be forty or fifty of them.