profession that wouldn’t demand an inordinate amount of time. Within a few years, when his business began to prosper, he encouraged customers to go to competitors: “For though my natural inclination was towards merchandise,” he wrote, “yet I believed Truth required me to live more free from outward cumbers.” By this time, around age 36 (when he began his journal, a document of his inner journey), he had married. He had also taken two important journeys through the American South, which convinced