and filled with God.

I felt I was nothing, and Christ was all in all. Him I now cheerfully received in all his offices; my Prophet to teach me, my Priest to atone for me, my King to reign over

me.

"Amazing love! how can it be

That thou, my Lord, shouldst die for me!"

O what boundless, boundless happiness there is in Christ, and all for such a poor sinner as I am! This happy change took place in my soul March 13, 1772.

Soon after this, Mr. Wesley's pamphlet on Christian perfection was put into my hand. I do not know that I had ever seen any of his works before. On reading this little work, I was filled with amazement, to think that a man I had never seen could read my heart in such a manner. This tended greatly to establish me in the truth of the Gospel.

About three years after I became a member of the society, I was requested to take the charge of a little class; to which I submitted in the fear of God. I had been a Leader about four or five years, when I was convinced it was my duty to alter my condition in life, by exchanging the state of a single, for that of a married, man. In this matter I ever believed I was divinely directed; for God gave me a wife who proved "a help meet" for me all the days of her life. In matters temporal and spiritual, I always found her alasting blessing to me.

On entering into the marriage-state, I took a small farm near Mousehole, and engaged myself on the Seine in the summer, during the pilchard season. Though our accommodations were humble, for some years the Preachers lodged with us. But I never found the sea to agree with me, and at length I earnestly prayed that God would direct my steps, and fix me in some place where I might support myself and family wholly on the land; and soon he condescended to grant me the desire of my heart. For this I hope I shall praise him in time and to all eternity.

Unsolicited, and in a manner which I did not expect, my way was opened to take a farm in the parish of Gluvias, near Ponsanooth. And here, at Christmas, 1788, I brought a beloved wife and two children; and before the end of a year came round we had another son. In entering on our new sphere of life, with little capital, we had many unpleasant things to encounter; but the Lord was with us, and brought us through all.

Here I found my outward religious privileges were widely different from what they were at Mousehole; it was like being brought from the land of Goshen into a dry and barren wilderness. There was no chapel in the neighbourhood; but at a farm-house, about three quarters of a mile distant, we had preaching once a fortnight. Here was a little class, feeble and destitute enough; for it had no Leader, (he having been removed some

time before,) and not one of the members could even assist in holding a prayer-meeting. When I beheld these few poor sheep in the wilderness without a shepherd, I began to discover the reason why God had brought me from the distance of twenty-six miles, and fixed me in this place.

I took the charge of the little class, and went on for some years without seeing much good done. At length, two pious men came into the neighbourhood for a short time to work; and I was led, in rather a singular manner, and without knowing their characters, to give them lodging at my house. With their help, a prayer-meeting was now commenced; and about this time, I saw it my duty, though the Lord had given me but one talent, to attempt in the prayer-meetings to give a word of exhortation. I saw sinners perishing without repentance, and the Lord seemed to say "Their blood will I require at thy hands." With fear and trembling I opened my mouth to beseech them to flee from the wrath to come. And soon after, to our great joy, it pleased the Lord to convince and convert a few souls, and add them to our little number.

to me,

It was about this time that the Lord condescended to hear prayer, and convert my two elder children. Returning one night from the QuarterlyMeeting love-feast at Redruth, in company with a pious friend, he told me he had the unspeakable happiness the night before to witness the conver

sion of his young daughter while he held her in
his arms. I informed him I had two children who
were getting up to mature age, but I was grieved
to say I had not yet seen any marks of a work
of God upon their minds. His reply I shall never
forget:-
"has not God pro-
Brother," says he,
:-

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mised to pour his Spirit upon thy seed, and his
blessing upon thy offspring?" The words went
through me in an unaccountable manner; they
seemed to take hold of my heart: I felt as if I
had not done my duty, and resolved to make a
new effort in prayer. I had always prayed for
my children; but now I grasped the promise with
the hand of faith, and retired daily at special sea-
sons to put the Lord to his word. I said nothing
of what I felt, or did, to any one but the Searcher
of hearts, with whom I wrestled in an agony of
prayer. About a fortnight after I had been thus
engaged with God, being at work in the field, I
received a message from my wife, informing me
that I was wanted within. When I entered the
house,
wife told
my
me, Grace is above stairs,
apparently distressed for something; but nothing
can be got from her, but that she must see father."
Judge of my feelings, when I found my daughter
a weeping penitent at the feet of Jesus. On see-
ing me she exclaimed, "O father, I am afraid I
shall go to hell!" The answer of my full heart
was, "No, glory be to God, I am not afraid of
that now." She said she had felt the load of sin

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about a fortnight, and that now she longed to find Christ. I pointed her to the true Physician, and she soon found rest through faith in the atoning blood. My eldest son had hitherto been utterly careless about the things of God, and associated with youths of a similar disposition of mind; but now he became the subject of a manifest change; he cast off his old companions; and one Sunday afternoon, just before I was going to meet my class, he came to me with a sorrowful mind, and expressed his desire to go with me to the classmeeting. He did go, and that day cast in his lot with the people of God; and, blessed be His holy name, they both continue to this day.

The society had now considerably increased, and the barren wilderness began to rejoice. We had two large classes, but no one had yet arisen to assist me as a Leader. We had now preaching twice a week, and the place where we assembled became too small for the congregation, and there was also much uncertainty about our being able to occupy it much longer; I therefore saw it my duty to do my utmost to get a little chapel erected, before the Lord should remove me from them. After much labour and anxiety, a suitable spot was procured for the purpose. To build the chapel was a great work for us; but by labour, giving what we could, and begging of those whom the Lord inclined to help us, we at length saw the blessed work accomplished. And now that I