to talk with these poor men about it?” — ”Yes, with all my heart,” said I: “and oblige them to give heed to what you say too.” — ”As to that,” said he, “we must leave them to the mercy of Christ; but it is your business to assist them, encourage them, and instruct them; and if you give me leave, and God His blessing, I do not doubt but the poor ignorant souls shall be brought home to the great circle of Christianity, if not into the particular faith we all embrace, and that even while you stay here.” Upon this I said, “I shall not only give you leave, but give you a thousand thanks for it.”

I now pressed him for the third article in which we were to blame.

“Why, really,” says he, “it is of the