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 effected in his religious sentiments. This is, under God, mainly to be ascribed to the perusal of Mr. Wilberforce's "Practical View of Christianity." He now with enlightened understanding and decisive zeal, set himself to "do the work of an evangelist." Not only was he in the pulpit, instant in "preaching the word," but he was also to be found with his pastoral admonitions in the dwellings of his flock, and could descend, with sweet and winning gentleness, to "feed his lambs." The fruit of his labours was speedily apparent. "Little Jane" was the first flower which bloomed from the good seed he was sowing.

The circumstances attendant upon his intercourse with the subjects of the Annals will be found narrated in the several tracts. I only observe in this place, that "little Jane" died January 30th, 1799, in her fifteenth year: that the conversations with the "Negro