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 My dear Jenny, I wish I had known all this efore. Why did you never tell me about it. Sir, I durst not. Indeed I could not well say hat was the matter with me; and I thought you would look upon me as very told if I had spoke such a gentleman as you about myself; yet I ften wished that you knew what I felt and feared. ometimes, as I went away from your house, I ould not help crying; and then the other children laughed and jeered at me, and said I was oing to be very good, they supposed, or at least to make people think so. Sometimes, sir, I fancied ou did not think so well of me as of the rest, and at hurt me; yet I knew I deserved no particular avour, because I was the chief of sinners.

My dear, what made St Paul says he was the hief of sinners?-What text belongs to that word, the chief of sinners.

' This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all cceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world o save sinners.' Is not that right, sir?

Yes, my child, it is right; and I hope that the ame feeling which St Paul had at that moment has convinced you of the same truth. Christ came unto the world to save sinners. My dear child, remember now and for evermore, that Christ came unto the world to save the chief of sinners.

Sir, I am so glad he did, it makes me hope that he will save me, though I am a poor sinful girl. Sir, I am very ill, and I do not think I shall ever get over it. I want to go to Christ if I die.

What made you first think so seriously about your soul? Your talking about the graves in the churchyard, and telling us how many young children were buried there. I remember you said one day,