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Rh if I could not read, he would visit me in my cell and put me in the way I shall ever love him while God gives me breath. I shall love the chaplain for he put me in the way to gain the salvation of my soul. He made me promise him faithfully that I would go to God and try to find mercy; and yet I had doubt in my heart, my sin was so heavy, whether I should be forgiven.

"The chaplain soon left me,and I went into my cell and poured out my heart to God to have mercy on me. The more I prayed, the more miserable I grew, the heavier and heavier were my sins.

"The next day I requested an individual to read to me a chapter, and as God would have it, he turned to the 55th chapter of Isaiah. It said, 'Every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye and buy wine and milk without price.'

"He read along where it says, 'Let the wicked man forsake his ways and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him