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"In the woods."
"How came you to think of him?"
"Why, sir, I am always thinking of him; but the thoughts have been stronger lately. I was stooping down, picking up chips, and I thought by an eye of faith that I could see him as a Lamb. And all at once he appeared as a man dressed in white, beautiful and glorious."[1]
"What did you do?"
"The first that I knew, tears came into my eyes, and I went and fell down on my knees, and every thing appeared, joyful and glorious; even the trees of the field."
"Then what next?"
"Why, sir, I got my load and came home; and it appeared to me that I was
- ↑ Jacob did not intend by this expression to convey the idea that there was to him any visible appearance, emblematic of his Saviour, but that the scriptural representations of his tenderness and glory were so strongly impressed upon his mind, that the images there drawn were to his perception like living realities to the natural eye. He never exhibited the slightest evidence of superstition or fanaticism under any circumstances.
