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 not be saved unless we believe in him according to the Gospel. I have been a follower of Christ for more than twenty years, and I would not part with mv hope for a thousand worlds. I am not afraid of dying, for l can say, “O death where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory?” ‘It is more than Joan,"(said Ben,) with a deep sigh.’ ‘People, added the old soldier,) have very low notions of Christianity. Christians are holy people, for God makes them so. They are dead to sin, and alive to God. Christ did not shed his precious blood that men might live in sin, without fear of hell, but that he might redeem them from all iniquity, and purify to. himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works———At this moment the French attacked them; about twenty of the English fell at the first fire, and a musket ball knocked off the cap of the profane scoffer at religion.——— Terrified, he exclaimed, ‘The Lord have mercy upon me? If I am killed, I shall be damned;-Oh! if I get out of the battle, alive, I will be a Christian.’ But, alas! God whom he had despised, now despised him; at the next volley a*other bail went through his head, carrying away his foreteeth, and the back part of his skull. (It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God,) and another wounded Ben in the knee. The French, after some sharp fighting were repulsed.

In consequence of his wound, Ben received his discharge, and was sent back to England. During his confinement in the, hospital, he thought much of former times, and of the religious instructions he then received, and felt the importance