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On Sunday morning, my mother asked me if I was going to Church. I told her I was not. She burst into tears, and said. "You are not going to see your brother baptized!" She wept bitterly. 1 told her 1 would go if it would do her any good. I did go and all the preachers said seemed intended for me.
I was troubled on account of my sins for two months; finally 1 could not work. Two weeks before Christmas I came to the conclusion that God would not suffer such a sinner as 1 was to live out of hell any longer. I certainly believed it was the last day 1 should ever see, it was a beautiful sun-shiny day. I made up my mind that I would walk away. I walked about a quarter of a mile along a small path that led through a piece of woods. While walking along a verse of a hymn came to my mind which 1 had often heard.
1 can but perish If 1 pray.
I am resolved to try.
For if I stay away,
1 know I must forever die.
I made up my mind to pray; if the devil got me he would get me a praying. I went to the root of a large
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