September 28th 1845

Sabbath - Rose at six. No sensible discovery until before going to church. I got a view of Christ dispensing mercy from His throne of grace as the minister of the upper sanctuary. Mr Taylor had an excellent sermon on Cain and Abel. Had a pretty full class, and very attentive. Distributed books among them. Then went to Daniel Louttit's meeting, and to see Annie Fraser, an aged Christian. When one asked her, "How did you spend the day?" she replied, "When the rest went to church, Satan came to me with an old song I learned in my youth, and tormented me, and I said to him, 'Come with me to the Questions,' and in spite of him I said over a great part of the Shorter Catechism, so he couldn't stand that, and he left me, himself and his old song." She also told of a young man that was coming to see her when she was young, and she bade him not come back, because she was not feeling the breath of prayer about him. There are many lessons to be learnt at her bedside.