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64 my chart. It is a light to my feet and a lamp to my path."

Mr. Dwight had often requested Jacob to read the Scriptures to him, an exercise in which he was peculiarly impressive He always used his own Bible: "that Bible" which first opened his eyes to the true light. This Bible Mr. Dwight had asked Jacob to give to him as a memorial of the power of the truth in saving such a sinner. Jacob uniformly declined, expressing his strong attachment to this companion of his prison hours. In the present conversation, Mr. Dwight renewed his request for the Bible, but he found that it had lost nothing of its interest and value in the estimation of Jacob. It had not only consoled him in the solitude of his cell, but had prepared him to become a free man indeed, and now walked forth with him, "a light unto his feet and a lamp unto his path." He had read it in course seven times, and he uniformly perused the chapter from which the text was taken of every sermon he heard.