“And what have been your thoughts all the time since you first heard these sermons in America? Did you tell anybody what you then felt?”
“No, me speak to nobody but to God den. De goot minister say dat God hear de cry of de poor; so me cry to
God, and he hear me. And me often tink about Jesus Christ, and wish to be like him.”
“Can you read?”
“A little.”
“Who taught you to read?”
“God teach me to read.”
“What do you mean by saying so?”
“God give me desire to read, and dat make reading easy. Master give me Bible, and one sailor show me de letters: and so me learned to read by myself, with God’s good help.”
“And what do you read in the Bible?”