CHAPTER III.
Religious Experience--Conviction--Conversion.
Just about the close of my apprenticeship, and as I began to feel myself a man, I commenced to visit the girls, which induced me to go still more frequently to church.
At that time, there were four churches in Fredericksburg.

The colored people had apartments for worship with the white people, at each of these churches.

They were Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian and Baptist.
I had no particular preference for any one of these denominations, more than another; but, went wherever my favorites went.

One night a young lady invited me to go to the Methodist church, where a prayer-meeting was to be held.

During the meeting, a venerable old gentleman rose to his feet, and related an account of the sudden death of a young lady, which he had read in a newspapers.