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 Sunday School, where they instructed the poor ignorant children to read their Bibles, (and on Thursday, evenings to write) and the young men who attended it, Mr. Paul Christian, and Mr. Barnabas Lovesoul, took great care to catechize them, and explain to them the meaning of what they read. To this school was Benjamin regularly sent.

When he was thirteen years of age, his grandmother died, and his grandfather departed this life the year following. Farmer Hay field’s lease expired at the same time,- and Mr. Nabal Squeczepoor, a rich overgrown farmer, took the farm., Mr. Squeezepoor, whose name expressed his nature, would not give Ben sufficient wages to keep soul and body together, so that the poor boy was obliged to leave his service, and seek for a better master.

Benjamin remembered he had read in his Bible at the Sunday School ‘that God provideth food for the ravens,’ and says, “Call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me;’ he therefore fell down upon his knees, and prayed to God for Jesus Christ’s sake, not to let him starve; but to provide for him in some way or other. The Bible speaks of God as a God hearing and answering prayer, and Ben found him to be so, for God provided for him by means of Mr. Christum, who recommended him to Mr. Lancet, an eminent apothecary at Wedgley, a market town about 11 miles off, who wanted a stout active lad to carry out his medicines: at the same time earnestly exhorting him to keep the sabbath day holy, to study his Bible, to pray to God regularly and fervently, and to avoid loose and idle company.