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 16 at parting, appointed one more interview previous to the day of baptizing him, and bid him farewell for the present. ' God bless you, my dear Massa.’ ‘ Aivd you, my fellow Christian, for ever and ever Amen.’

THE NEGRO'S VISIT TO THE COTTAGE. PART III.

THE very interesting and affecting conversations, which I had with the Negro Servant, noticed in the two form parts, produced a sensation not easy to be expressed As I returned home, I was led into meditation on the sin- gular clearness and beauty of those evidences of faith and conversation to God, which I had just seen and heard. How plainly, I thought, it appears, that salvation is free- ly by grace through faith; and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God ; not of works, lest any man should boast. What but the Holy Spirit, who is the author and giver of the life of grace, could have wrought such a change from the once dark, perverse, and ignorant heath- en, to this now convinced, enlightened, humble, and be- lieving Christian ? I afterwards made particular inquiry into this young man’s domestic and general deportment. Every thing I beard was satisfactory; nor could I entertain a doubt respecting the consistency of his conduct and character I had some farther conversations with him; in the course of which I pursued such a plan of Scriptural instructior and examination, as I conceived to be the most suitable to his progressive state of mind. He improved much in