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them, it brought to my mind Christ's fayings in St. Mathew, 23d Chapt. and 37th verse, Jerusalem thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered the children together even as the hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not- Reader you may think I was in great distress; I could not sleep and took to reading, I was distressed to think hew I had abused the sabbath and had not taken warning from my wise. About midnight I saw a light about a foot from my face as bright as fire, the doors were all shut and no one stiring in the house, I thought by this that I had but a few moments to live, and O! what distress I was in; I prayed that the Lord would have mercy on my soul and deliver me from this horrible pit of sin. I thought myself that I had been such a vile wretch that the Lord would not have mercy on me, and I thought as I had slighted so many warnings from my companion, and so abused the sabbath; but I preceived my body and soul was in danger; oh! reader you may think I was in distress.
Another night soon after I saw another light as bright as the first, at a small distance from my face, and I thought I had but a few moments to live, and not deeping nights, and reading, all day I was in misery; well you any think I was in distress, soul and body. At another time, in the dead of the night I was called
