22 'Oh! Massa, me tink sometime me have no faith.' 'Why so, William?' 'When me want to tink about Jesus Christ my mind run about after other things; when me want to love him, my heart seem quite cold when me want to pray, the devil put bat, very bat thoughts into me, and me never tank Christ enough. Now all this make me sometime afraid I have no faith.' I observed a very earnest glow of attention and fellow-feeling in some countenances present as he spoke these words. I then said, 'I think, William, I can prove that you have faith, notwithstanding your fears to the contrary. Answer me a few more questions.': 'Did you begin to think yourself a great sin- ner, and to feel the want of a Saviour, of your own self, and by your own thought and doing?' 'Oh! no, it came to me, when me tink noting about it, and seek noting about it.' 'Who sent the good minister in America to awaken your soul by his preaching ?' 'Got, very certainly.' 'Who then began the work of serious thought and feeling in your mind ?' 'The goot Got: me could not do it of myself, me sure of that.': 'Do you think that Jesus Christ and his salva- tion is the one thing most needful and most de- sireable ?; '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 merci- ful, he will not cast out any that come to him.'
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