I hope, William, that since God has been so graciously pleased
to open your eyes, and affect your mind with such a great sense of his
goodness in giving his Son to die for your sake; I hope that you do your
endeavour to keep his commandments: I hope you strive to behave well to
your master and mistress, and fellow-servants. He that is a Christian
inwardly will be a Christian outwardly; he that truly and savingly
believes in Christ, will show his faith by his works, as the apostle
says. Is it not so, William?"

"Yes, sir; me want to do so. Me want to be faithful. Me sorry to tink
how bat servant me was before de goot tings of Jesus Christ come to my
heart. Me wish to do well to my massa, when he see me and when he not
see; for me know God always see me. Me know dat if me sin against mine
own massa, me sin against God, and God be very angry with me. Beside,
how can me love Christ if me do not what Christ tell me? Me love my
fellow-servants, dough, as I tell you before, dey do not much love me;
and I pray God to bless dem. And when dey say bat tings, and try to make
me angry, den me tink, if Jesus Christ were in poor Negro's place, he
would not revile and answer again with bat words and temper, but he say
little and pray much. And so den me say noting at all, but pray to God
to forgive dem."

The more I conversed with this African convert, the more satisfactory
were the evidences of his mind being spiritually enlightened, and his
heart effectually wrought upon by the grace of God.

The circumstances of the place in which we met together contributed much
to the interesting effect which the conversation produced on my mind. The
little cove or bay was beautiful in the extreme. The air was calm and
serene. The sun shone, but we were sheltered from its rays by the
cliffs. One of these was stupendously lofty and large. It was white as
snow; its summit hung directly over our heads. The sea-fowls were flying
around it. Its whiteness was occasionally chequered with dark green
masses of samphire, which grew there. On the other side, and behind us,
was a more gradual declivity of many-coloured earths, interspersed with
green patches of grass and bushes, and little streams of water trickling
down the bank, and mingling with the sea at the bottom. At our feet the
waves were advancing over shelves of rocks covered with a great variety
of sea-weeds, which swam in little fragments, and displayed much beauty
and elegan