"Am I addressing Mr. Goddard?"
"Yes, Sir; and if I mistake not, you are the gentleman who has called to see my friend, Mr. Pickford."
"Yes, I have visited him."
"I wish, Sir, you would come and see me. Your talk and prayer might do my family good, as it has done his."
"I am glad to hear that you are turning your attention to the salvation of your soul."
"Ah, Sir, I lived for many years, like most of the farmers in these parts, a sad heathenish life; and I should have lived on in this state till the hour of death, had it not pleased God to send me a godly servant. His plain and honest talk set me thinking, and reading my Bible, and then I went and heard the Rev. Mr. Ingleby preach, and the gospel came with great power to my soul. It opened before me a new scene of spiritual wonders, and a new source of spiritual comfort. But I am sorry to say that all my family are sadly opposed to spiritual things; they make light of them."
"You may live to see a change."
"I hope I may. But it is very painful, after being made alive from the dead, to see my wife and children living under the sentence of death. It makes my heart ache. What ought I to do?"
"Persuade them, when they go to public worship, to go where the gospel is preached."
"They object, Sir, and I cannot force them."