I therefore threw my paper by without finishing the copy, and applied myself to the reading of Isaiah.
"I had wished to find in the prophet some plain and incontrovertible proofs of the Messiahship of Christ, to use against Moslems and Jews.

While thus searching, I found various passages that would _bear_ an explanation according to my views, and read on till I came to the fifty-second chapter, and fourteenth verse, and onward to the end of the next chapter.
"On finding this testimony, my heart rejoiced and was exceeding glad, for it removed many dark doubts from my own mind.

From that time, my desire to read the New Testament was greatly increased, that I might discover the best means of acting according to the doctrines of Jesus.

I endeavored to divest myself of all selfish bias, and loved more and more to inquire into religious subjects.

I saw, as I still see, many doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, that I could not believe, and which I found opposed to the truths of the Gospel, and I wished much to find some of her best teachers to explain them to me, that I might see how they proved them from the Holy Scriptures.