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interposed the vicar Without a moment's pause, I set off to show myself to the

”Now! there you are,” she said; ”the Lord has sent you back I laid awake best part of the night, thinking of soo away like that, so early in the ht I should be lost for ever!”

Her questions concerned her soul's condition OnChrist and His salvation before her for her acceptance, she found peace; and afterwards becaood helper in the parish There were soedto my letters, written at the time, I find a record of five persons who professed to find peace that , we had a kind of service in the school-rooether, and spent a very happy ti I started for hoht, or rather early on Sunday ain I gave thes in the ”shi+res” This,

Ever since my conversion, I had been over head and ears in conversion work, and, as a loyal young convert, thought at that ti else in the world to live, or work for! How surprised I hen I found that this was not by any elical brethren; andfor the salvation of souls was put aside altogether, if 'it did not fit in with the stated service-day of the week, or public opinion If people came to church, or better still, to the coh, even though they were dead in trespasses and sins I did not, of course, expect anything frohbours, for I knew them of old; but froot nothing

While I was still feeling sore and disappointed, intending not to go out on such errands any more, I found myself promised to another mission in a most unexpected manner; but this did not happen to be out of Cornwall, and therefore prospered better, as we shall see

CHAPTER 20

A Stranger fro in the Cornish newspapers about our revivals, beca desire to witness such a movement personally, proposed a visit to her uncle in Truro, who had sent her those papers Being accepted, she ca way in those days, when railway communication was not so complete as it is now

This sa; and expressing a wish to attend the afternoon service, we gladly welcoe In course of conversation, she spoke of churches in London where the Gospel was preached in its fullness; and I naturally asked her whether they had ”after-s” She said, she did not knohat I s, for conversion work, I mean”

”What is that?” she inquired ”Is not conversion God's work?”

”Yes,” I answered, ”indeed it is; but so is the harvest yonder in the corn-fields: it is all God's work, but round and sow the seed”

”Oh, is that what you call revival work? I have read of it; and, to tell the truth, I have come all the way from London to see it”

She evidently had an idea that revivals were so like thunder-storms, which co that is vented, like an occasional eruption of Mount Vesuvius

I said, ”Revivals--that is, the refreshening of believers and the awakening of sinners--ought to take place wherever the Gospel is preached in faith and power”

She could not understand it, and said, ”It is not so in churches, is it?”

”Yes,” I replied, ”in churches as well as in cottages, halls and chapels too”

”I am sure Mr ---- in London preaches a full Gospel, but I have never heard of a revival there; indeed, I feel convinced they would not allow it”

”Is he converted?” I asked

She smiled at the question, and said, ”I suppose he is”

”I iveness of sins? and, iveness?”

She said she could not understand --”They do not speak like that in London”