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Long and earnestly did Haldane try to reason his quaint friend out of his despairing views of himself At last the old ed a saint to instruct a seasoned and experienced old sinner like me You don't know much about the Lord's ways yet, and I know all about the devil's ways Because you've got out of his clutches (and I'ht of him, and take liberties with him as if he was nobody, 'specially when Scripter calls hi as you be, I'd it away from him; but after tryin' more times than you've lived years, I know it ain't no use I tell you I can't feel as you feel, any more than you can squeeze water out of the that the old man's spiritual condition was too knotty a problem for him to solve

After a few moments Mr Growther added, in a voice that he meant to be very soleious feelin's all the same I will listen to all the Scripter readin' and prayin' you're willin' to do, without makin' any disturbance Indeed, I think I will enjoy race can be said over 'em An' when you read the Bible, you needn't read the cussin' parts, if yer don't want to I'll read 'eive you all the leeway that an old curht o' cooin' on your way rejoicin'"

And he did seeress and new spiritual experiences as if he alone were the one interested His efforts to control his irritability and profanity were both odd and pathetic, and Haldane would soe contortions of his wrinkled face, when in former times he would have vented his spite in the harshest tones

Haldane wrote fully to Mrs Arnot of his visit to his native city and its happy results, and enlarged upon his changed feelings as the proof that he was a changed man

Her reply was proratulations and expressions of the sincerest sympathy It also contained these words: "I fear that you are dwelling too largely upon your feelings and experiences, and are giving to them a value they do not possess Not that I would undervalue theracious tokens of God's favor; but they are not the grounds of your salvation and acceptance with God"