What should I do?
read?
Yes, but I had no other book than the Bible which the Welsh Methodist had given me: well, why not read the Bible?
I was once fond of reading the Bible; ay, but those days were long gone by.

However, I did not see what else I could do on the present occasion--so I determined to read the Bible--it was in Welsh; at any rate it might amuse me, so I took the Bible out of the sack, in which it was lying in the cart, and began to read at the place where I chanced to open it.

I opened it at the part where the history of Saul commences.

At first I read with indifference, but after some time my attention was riveted.

And no wonder: I had come to the visitations of Saul, those dark moments of his, when he did and said such unaccountable things; it almost appeared to me that I was reading of myself; I, too, had my visitations, dark as ever his were.