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 servility with an uncommon fortitude of mind. In the first place, he determined, during all the time of his labour, to offer up continual thanksgivings to Almighty God for his manifold mercies bestowed on so unworthy a creature, and to devote all his l isureleisure [sic] hours to the duty of repentance. His next resolution was to obey his Master’s commands, to serve. him faithfully, and to perform whatever business was imposed on him, so far, and so long as health and strength would permit; not doubting but the same God, who had preserved him hitherto, in such a wonderful manner, would accept the oblations of a contrite heart, and enable him to go throught it with courage and chearfulness.

the first month's service, as he himself told me, went very heard with him. His hands blistered his feet grew sore and raw, and the heat of the climate was almost insuportable; but as custom makes every station familiar, before three months were expired, all these grievences were at an end; and he, naturally