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 come down from the pulpit, and on his bended knees beseech a poor Drummer to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That, with the remainder of the sermon made a deep impression on my mind. I went home to my wife. She met me at the door. I said to her, Jane, we are all wrong: we are living like beasts, we know nothing about believing on the Lord Jesus Christ Poor thing! she trembled, for she thought I had lost my reason: but (said I) Jane, I am not mad, but you and I are going to destruction. I understand that the Bible will tell us every thing; but we have not a Bible, and if we had. we cannot read it. O, said she, we can buy a Bible, and our little boy, who is only twelve miles off, can read it to us. Accordingly we sent for our boy, and also bought a Bible. When he came home, we desired him to begin at the first page, and so forward to the end of the book, we often gave him two suppers to keep him from sleep, for he got drowsy with reading.

‘I used to rise very early in the morning to hear more of the Bible; hut I would say, it is cruel to wake my hoy so early, and would give him another hour of sleep. Then he rose, and began to read where he had stopped the preceding night; and we both sat listening to our boy reading the hook He read slowly, for he had many words to spell. At length God opened my poor blind eyes to see that Jesus Christ was the very Saviour that I stood in need of. O how happy I was! Our boy read onward, arid after some time the Lord. was pleased to open the poor blind eyes of my Wife, so that she saw in Jesus Christ just what I saw. Now we became one of the happiest families in all Hull.