In all these things the maxim is ever present to my mind, 'Man proposes, but God disposes.' Closed the night at the desk, which is becoming more and more a difficult task from the failure of my eyes.
"Saturday .-- Good night's sleep.

That is for me, anyway, a great improvement on recent nights.

So now for a good day's work, of which there is plenty lying before me.
"7.30 p.m., Soldiers' Meeting.

We have always been crowded out before, so this time the Palace Theatre was taken, as an experiment, and it justified my reckonings for several years gone by, namely, that we could fill any reasonable place on Saturday night here, and yet keep the Meeting select; that is, confine it to Soldiers and ex-Soldiers, adherents, and those concerned about religion.

We were more than full, and the place holds 1,500.