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 has no objection, I am sure I have none.’ He returned in a few minutes, when we placed him at the head of the table Then we requested that as many of the family, &c. as could attend worship would come up stairs. The family, waiters, servants, hostlers, and two or three ladies from the neighbourhood, attended. As usual, v/e read a chapter in the Bible, gave a short address from it to the company present, and went to prayer.

After supper, we requested the Drummer to Favour ns with his history, which he did with great modesty in the following words, which are nearly his own:

‘I have been (said he) twenty-four years in the navy and army together till tour years ago I was the wickedest wretch in either. Our regiment was then lying at Hull. I was seized with an unaccountable melancholy; it was not about religion; I do not know what it was, but I was miserable. One evening as I was walking on the common very unhappy, l observed a church lighted up, which convinced me there was to be a sermon preached in it, but I durst not go, lest my comrades should laugh at me for attending a sermon on week-day. I knelt down on the common, and prayed to God to give me courage to go to church. When I rose from prayer, I went directly to church. The minister was preaching cm believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. Immediately when I was seated, the minister said, ‘If it could be of the smallest service to the meanest person present, I would come down from the pulpit, and on my bended knees beseech that person to believe on the Lord Jesus.’ Thought I, this must be a mighty matter surely, that a gentleman would