James Lythgoe Missionary Journal / pp043-044

[43] forenoon in reading, writing, and looking at the school atlas, when I went and had dinner with Bro. Wild in Trafalgh St. Also visited Bro. Enos Ray; singing and talking with him about totalism or temperance. He argued that a man was better without drink than with it, and would that all the beer houses was done away. I said that a man would be a better man that could see an evil and have the power to shun it than he who could not walk by a beer house without being led astray. Had tea with him and family. Wrote a letter to Bro. Kay, who was at Liverpool, informing him where I was and how I was moving along. Made my way to the General Post office of Leigh, promising Bro. Ray to meet him at the room by 8 p.m., as there was being a school to instruct some boys in reading, etc. Attended school and had a good time in reading the 2nd chapter of Eph. Told them [44] it was not the amount of reasoning they went through but "the good that they might learn." Bro. Walsh then came in and in his conversation treated upon the various gifts in the church, especially upon the gift of tongues, as some had in tongues spoken out the deceitfulness of their own heart unknowingly. Instructed us about many good things, the proper use and meaning of words, etc. Supper and lodgings with Bro. Ray.

May 6th, Tuesday, Tyldesley

Breakfast with Bro. Ray and chatting with him. He let me look at a work that he had just completed, or done taken in, a dictionary the finest one I had ever seen. I pursued my journey to Worsley, called at Morts and had dinner with them. Also called at Bro. Greenhalgh, the Prest. of Tyldesley Branch, had a rest and washed myself, felt a little refreshed, and went on my journey. Stayed at Bro. Geo. Partington, and