The blaspheming lips had been touched by the Saviour's hand, and taught the language of the children of God.

His young servant could not but "stand in awe," and own the might and the wonderful mercy of the King of kings.
Derry was the first to break the solemn silence.

"Those words never left me: 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool,'" he said.

"They stuck to me, and rang in my ears and searched every nook and cranny of my wicked heart.

Often I had longed to be a Christian man for the little dear's sake, if not for my own; but I said to myself, 'No, Derry Duck, you are all pitch, you can't be made white;' and Satan helped me to hold on to that way of thinking.