Litchfield enquirer., 1830-05-13
TALKING WITH GOD.

Mr. Editor :-Conversing a few years since with gentleman ofhopeful piety np- on the subject of experimental religion, he related number of interesting facts rela- tive to the operations of the spirit Q! God upon the hearts of sinners-the following among the rest :-
 There lived in the town of -. in Vermont, a man who had large family of children. He was poor, and unable to keep them at home, he put some of them away from hone to live. It was the fa- voured lot of little girl, l think about eight years ofage, to fall in family where daily prayers were offered up to Almighty God. Prayer she was unacquainted with. The subject was new to her. At home she never heard prayer. An astonish- ment seized her when she saw her master, night and morning, standing in the corner of the room, talking, as she termed 1t, with something that she could not see. An anxiety sweIled in her little bosom to know who it could be. Unwilling to ask any one of the family with whom she lived, yet solicitous to know, she obtained leave to go l,ome- She had hardly reached the lonely cottage, before she asked her mother who it was that her master talked with, when. standing in the corner of the room, night and morning. She told her she did not know, being herself heathen, thoug h in a Christian land. Not satisfied, she asked her father, who answered in a thoughtless and inhuman manner, "The devil. sup pose.''. The little inquisitive child retur- ned uninformed to her master, where she witnessed tue same. promptitude and holy ardour as before. Not many days had elapsed, before she summoned fortitude e. nongh to put the question:. One morning, after her master had been talking with the unknown being, she stepped up before him, and said 's Sir, who have you been talking with this morning F The question was 1 so unexpected, and from such source, l that at first he felt unable to answer her,
 and was unusually impressed with the i'm
 portance of the duty of prayer, and the 1 weight of obligation resting upon him to approach God aright. But after recollec- l ting himself little, he said, and that with
 reverence, have been trying to talk ] with God" !" God !" said she with as- ! punishment, "where is he? where does
 he live 2" &c. Many questions of simi- lar nature she put with much interest and
 feeling, to which her master gave her such answers as were calculated to awaken the liveliest feeling of her mind in regard to Jehovah. After she had learned all her ] little mind could contain of divine things,
 she desired to go home and sec her parents
 with an earnestness that could not be re-
 sisted. Go she must. Leave was gram
 ted. She went home to her fathers cot
 tage, place where prayer was not wont
 to be made, with her little bosom beating
 with a high tone of pious. feeling in view of the importance of prayer. She went to her father, and said to him, :" Father, pray" She urged with warmth a compile ance, but he utterly refused. She then went to her mother and asked her to pray, but with no better success. She could not endure any longer--her feelings must vent themselves in words. She said, " Let US pray" Sho kneeled down and prayed, and
 it appears that the scripture was fulfilled {: "The effectual fervent prayer ofthe right
 epus availeth much." In answer to her l prayer both of her parents were brought
 under conviction, which terminated. as Iny
 informant said, in hopeful conversation to
 God. And this was the beginning of an extensive revival of religion. A. w. f Car Mirror.
 | II1se M0ghanimity. Hath any wronS- cd thee [ be ebravely revenged; slight it :; and the work is begun i, forgive it, and 'tis finished. He is, below himself that is not above injury q ,a .ao. sls