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Rh as these; showing the channel in which his thoughts habitually flowed. 'Very well, master, in body, but this wicked heart; I want a great deal more grace.' He complained much of a disposition to worldliness. ' His little matters of business engrossed so much of his attentionhe was compelled,' he said, 'to pray continually against it. He wondered how rich Christians could keep along'

"Jacob was a useful Christian. Such a one could hardly be otherwise. It may be said of him, 'He hath done what he could.' There are not a few in this village who owe their conversion, under God, to his faithfulness, and I doubt not there are many who are ready to rise up and call him blessed.

"His uniform and consistent life of piety cannot but have had a happy influence on all who observed him. He loved and longed to do good. I once asked him why he was. so anxious to be rendering services to me, for he was constantly inquiring if he could not do something for