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 This was very goot indeed, to do so for a wicked sinner.' 'And what made you think this was all spoken to you in particular?' 'Because me sure, no such wicked sinner as me in all the place.' 'And what did you think about yourself while he preached about Jesus Christ?' 'Sir, me was very much afraid, when he said the wicked must be turned into hell fire. For me felt, that me was a wicked sinner, and that make me cry. He talk much about the love of Christ to sinners and that make me cry more. And me thought me must love Jesus Christ, but me not know how, and that make me cry again.' 'Did you hear more sermons than one during that month?' 'Yes, Sir, master gave me leave to go three times, and all the times me wanted to love Jesus more, and do what Jesus said ; but my heart seem sometime hard like a stone.' 'Have you heard any preaching since that time?' 'Never, till me hear sermon at this church last Sunday, and then me long to be baptized in Jesus' name; for me had no Christian friends to baptize me, when little child." 'What have been your thoughts all the time since you first heard these sermons in America; did you tell any body then what you felt ?' 'No ;. me speak to nobody but to God, then- The goot minister says that God hear, the cry of the poor: so me cry to God, and he hear me. And me often think about Jesus Christ and wish to be like him.' 'Can you read?'. 'A little.'