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bat, very bat thoughts into me, and me never ta Christ enough. Now all this make me sometime afra I have to faith.'

I observed a very earnest glow of attention and f low-feeling in some countenances present as he spo these words. I then said,

'I think, William, I can prove that you have fait Notwithstanding your fears to the contrary. Answ are a few more questions.'

'Did you begin to think yourself a great sinner, a to feel the want of a Saviour, of your own self, and b your own thought and doing?'

'Oh! to, it came to me when me think noting abo it, and seek noting about it.'

'Who sent the goot minister in America, to awake your soul by his preaching?'

'Got, very certainly.'

'Who then began the work of serious thought an feeling in your mind?'

'The goot Got; me could not do it myself, me sur of dat.'

'Do you not think that Jesus Christ and his salvation is the one thing most needful and most desirable?'

'Oh! yes me quite sure of that.'

'Do you not believe that he is able to save you?'

'Yes he is able to save to the uttermost,'

'Do you think he is not willing to save you?'

'Me dare not say that. He so goot, so merciful, so kind to say he will in no ways cast out any that come to him.'

'Do you wish and desire, and strive to keep his commandments?'

'Yes, Mass, because me love him, and that make me want to do as he say.'

'Are you willing to suffer for his sake, if God should you to do so?

'Me do tink I could die for the love of him: he not