Such was plainly not his vocation, and so it happened that wherever he turned, he and poverty walked arm in arm, and the interrogatory, "wherewithal shall I be fed and clothed on the morrow ?" was never satisfactorily answered until the morrow arrived.

This led him at times into no little embarrassment and difficulty.

But since he was always willing to work at the case, and to send his "pride on a pilgrimage to Mecca," the embarrassment was not protracted, nor did the difficulty prove insuperable.
The Congregational societies of Boston invited him in June to deliver before them a Fourth of July address in the interest of the Colonization Society.

The exercises took place in Park Street Church.

Ten days before this event he was called upon to pay a bill of four dollars for failure to appear at the May muster.