Part 5 (2/2)
”I don't think so.”
”Why?”
”Because I think they can do right just as good as older people.”
”When were you baptized?”
”Last summer in July.”
”How do you know that you love Jesus?”
”Because,--well, I just know it.”
”Suppose sometime you should sin, then what?”
”I'd just pray to G.o.d to forgive me.”
”Are you sure He'd forgive you?”
”Yes sir. The Bible says so.”
”How does it come you did not want to wait till you grew up, like many others do?”
”Because I might die and not be saved.”
”Suppose at school some of the other scholars tease you, then what?”
”I wouldn't say nothing.”
”How long did you want to join the church before last summer?”
”O, I often thought about it. I was under conviction a good while.”
”What does it mean to be under conviction?”
”Well,”--and I saw that I had asked a harder question than I thought.
After thinking a moment she said, ”I just feel like crying all the time.”
”What about, Bessie?”
”About things I done wrong.”
”What things?”
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