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A couple of entries in his diary will complete our preparation for the record of the day that changed his life. He is a youth of nineteen, staid and thoughtful, but full of life and merriment, and the popular center of a group of student friends.
May 3, 1829.--Great sorrow, because I am still out of Christ.
May 31, 1829.--My birthday is past and I am not born again.
Not every day, I fancy, do such entries find their way into the confidential journals of young people of nineteen.