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 20 ‘ Yes, Sir; " he that believeth on the Son hath ever- lasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him,” John iii. 36.’ ‘ What is it to have faith !’ ‘ Me suppose that it is to link much about Jesus Christ, to love him much, to believe all he says to be true, and to pray to him very much.’ ‘ And have you such a faith as you describe?’ ‘ Oh ! Massa, me link sometime me have no faith.’ ‘ Why so, William ?’ ‘ When me want to tink about Jesus Christ, my mind run about after other things : when me want to love him, my heart seem quite cold ; when me want to pray, the devil put bat, very bat thoughts into me, and me never tank Christ enough. Now all this make me sometime afraid I have no faith.’ I observed a very earnest glow of attention and fellow- feeling in some countenances present as he spoke these words. I then said, ‘ I think, William, I ran prove that you have faith, notwithstanding your fears to the contrary. Answer me a few more questions.’ ‘ Did you begin to think yourself a great sinner, and to feel the want of a Saviour, of your own self, and by your own thought and doing?’ ‘ Oh ! no, it came to me, when me tink noting about it, and seek noting about it.’ ‘ Who sent the good minister in America to awaken your soul by his preaching ?’ ‘ Got, very cetainly.' ‘ Who then began the work of serious thought and feeling in your mind.’ ‘ The goot Got; me could not do it of myself, me sure of that.' ‘ Do you think that Jesus Christ and his salvation is the one thing most needful and most desirable?’