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80 deep distress, he came at once to Jacob for advice. Jacob could only encourage him to resolute efforts and point him to Christ. He went with him to the meeting for inquiry and to his minister, till ultimately he was numbered among the nope fully converted. The mother soon became interested for her own salvation, and was at length brought to embrace the offers of life in the Redeemer. The father was next apparently reached by the Spirit of God, through the labours of their faithful friend Jacob. The mother and son are now members of the church, and the father is greatly changed in his habits of life, if not actually renewed by the Spirit of God. How many others may be found at last, saved through the humble labours of this praying African, is known only to him who blesses the feeblest efforts of his saints. Jacob's sense of gratitude and his love for his friends were uncommonly ardent and strong, and I never heard of an expression of unkindness falling from hit lips. To his last hours, he could not speak