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 23 'Do you wish and desire and strive to keep his commandments ?' 'Yes, Massa, because me love him, and that make me want to do as he say.' 'Are you willing to suffer for his sake, if God should call you to do so?' 'Me do tink me could die for the love of him: he not tink it too much to die for wicked sinner; why should wicked sinner tink it much to die for so goot and righteous a Saviour?' 'I think and hope I may say to you, William, thy faith hath made thee whole.' Thus ended my examination for the present.- The other friends who were in the house listened with the most affectionate anxiety to all that passed. One of them observed, with evident emotion, 'I see, Sir, that though some men are white, and some are black, true Christianity is all one colour. My own heart has gone with this good man every word he has spoken.' After some time passed in conversation on the Negro's history, I said, 'Let us now praise God for the rich and unspeakable gift of his grace, and sing the hymn of redeeming love. Now begin the lovely theme, Sing aloud in Jesus' name, &c. The Negro was not much used to our way of singing, yet joined with great earnestness and af- fection, that showed how truly he felt what was uttered. When the 5th verse was ended,

Nothing brought him from above, Nothing but redeeming love;

he repeated the words; unconscious where he was, 'No, noting but redeeming love bring him down to poor William, noting but redeeming love.'