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slave by while man to do me goot.'
'How to do you good?'
'He take me from the land of darkness, and bring me to the land of light.'
'Which do you call the land of light: the West India Islands?'
'No, Messa, they be the land of Providence, but America be the land of light to me: for there the first hear goot minister preach. And now this place, where I am now, is the land of more light: for here you teach me more and more how goat Jesus is to sinners.'
'What does the blood of Christ do?'
'It cleanse from, all sin. And so me hope from my sin.'
'Are then all men cleansed from sin by his blood?'
'Oh, no, Massa.'
'Who are cleansed and saved?'
'Those that have faith in him.'
'Can you prove that out of your Bible?'
'Yes, Sir, he that believeth in the Son, hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth in him.' John iii. 36.
'What is it to have faith?'
'Me suppose that is to tink much about Jesus Christ, to love him much, to believe all he says to be true, to pray to him very much; and when me feel very weak and very sinful, to tink that he is very strong and very goot, and all that for my sake.'
'And have you such a faith as you describe?'
'Oh, Massa, me tink sometimes me have no faith at all.'
'Why so, William?'
'When me want to tink about Jesus Christ, my mind run about after other things: when me want to love him my heart seem quite cold: when me want to believe all to be true, what he says to sinners, me then tink, it is not true for me: when we want to pray, the devil put
