He that said, 'Suffer little children to come unto me,' waits to be gracious to them, and forbids them not." "What made you first think so seriously about the state of your soul ?" "Your talking about the graves in the churchyard, and telling us how many young children were buried there.

I remember you said, one day, near twelve months ago, 'Children! where will you be a hundred years hence?
Children! where do you think you shall go when you die?
Children! if you were to die to-night, are you sure you should go to Christ and be happy ?' Sir, I never shall forget your saying, 'Children,' three times together in that solemn way." "Did you ever before that day feel any desire about your soul ?" "Yes, sir; I think I first had that desire almost as soon as you began to teach us on Saturday afternoons; but on that day I felt as I never did before.

I shall never forget it.

All the way as I went home, and all that night, these words were in my thoughts: 'Children! where do you think you shall go when you die ?' I thought I must leave off all my bad ways, or where shall I go when I died ?" "And what effect did these thoughts produce in your mind ?" "Sir, I tried to live better, and I did leave off many bad ways; but the more I strove, the more difficult I found it, my heart seemed so hard: and then I could not tell any one my case." "Could not you tell it to the Lord, who hears and answers prayers ?" "My prayers (here she blushed and sighed) are very poor at the best, and at that time I scarcely knew how to pray at all as I ought.

But I did sometimes ask the Lord for a better heart." There was a character in all this conversation which marked a truly sincere and enlightened state of mind.