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 REDEMPTION. 99 labors, he sat alone in a retired spot, and wept and groaned aloud. A British sailor was passing, he saw the old man, he pitied his sad condition, and asked what ailed him. The answer was very sad: "Me very old, me very bad man, me know not what to do, me must die." The sailor answered lightly, himself being ignorant of the way of salvation, "Oh, if you were in our land, you would hear of the Christian's God who paid the debt," and so passed on and left him. These words were music to the old man's soul. This was what he needed and desired, and he determined to know by Google Digitized by