The Litchfield County post., 1828-02-21
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The fallrwlac sslceiing story was rcls. sad hy Mr. Dadley, an agent lor tho Brit ish and Foreign Bihle Socie,y, al the l2 h Anniversary of ihe Birmingham Sunday School Uni 'n, in the month oi Aprd last.
 h the county of Kent there lives, or lived, clergyman and his lady, who took a very active part in the Sabbath SChonl connected with his church. They had iu the school a boy, the only son of widow, who was notoriously wicked, despising all the earnes, prayers and admOnitions ot the clergyman, who, out of pity for his poor widowed mother, kept him in the school eighteen months; at length he found il absolutely necessary to dism'sS the lad as a warning to others. He soon after enlisted as a soldier in d regiment that was ordered to America, it being during the last Amer- icau war. Sometime after, the poor wid- ow called upon the clergyman to beg B. bIe of the smallest size. Surprised at such a request from an individual, who was ev- idently on the verge of eternity, and who he knew had one or two Bibles of large print, which she had long used to good pur- pose, he inquired what she wanted it for. She answered, " A regiment is going out to America, and | want to send 1t to nay poor boy and o! sir, who knows what it may do!'' She sent ,he Bible, which the clergyman gave her, by pious soldier, who, upon their arrival at their destlna- ton, found the widows son the very ring leader of the regiment in every description of vice after he had made himself known, he said, "JameS, your mother has sent you her last present. He replied in a care- less manner, An, is she gone at last l hope she has sent me some cash" The pious soldier told him be believed the poor widow was dead but, said he, "she has sent you something of more value than gold or silver, (presenting him with the Bible } and James, it was her dying re- quest, that you should read one verse, at least, of this book every day, and can you refuse her dying charge!" He said, "well, it is not too much to ask, (opening the Bi- ble.) So here goes the words, "Come un- to me al! ye that are weary apd heavy Ia- den, and will give you rest" Well," said he, "this is very odd. have open- ed to the only verse in the Bible that I could ever learn by heart; when l was in the Sunday School, never could, for the life of me, commit another. It is very strange! But who is this me that's men, tioned in the verse? p The pious soldier asked him if he did not know he replied, that he did not. They walked to the house of the cha plain, where they had fur ther conversation ; the result was, that from that hour he became a changed man, and was as noted for his exemplary con- duct as before he had been for his wicked- ness.
 Some time after his conversion, the re- enemy, at the close of which, the pious sol- dier, in walking through the field of blood, beheld, under a large spreading oak. the dead body of James, his head reclining upon his Bible, which was opened at this passage, Come unto me all ye that are weary," &c. Poor James had gone to his eternal rest. MT. Dudley said he had fre- quenty held he Bible in his hand; there were not less than tgfty pages stained with the blood of poor James. How encoura- ging IS this, said MT. D. for Sabbath School teachers to persevere: for should there be but one seed sown, it might, as in the case of the widows son, produce a plentiful harvest. The only verse he ever commit- ted 10 memory, was the means, in the hand of the Holy Spirit, in bringing him out of darkness into marvellous light and James is now, we trus, joining the song off the redeemed III Heaven.
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