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JACOB HODGES.
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treated like a man. For the first time in
his life he felt that he had a friend. His
heart was immediately won, his rough
pirit was subdued, his generous and con¬
fiding nature was called forth, prepared
to receive instruction and good from those
who showed an interest in his sad con¬
dition.
No sooner had Jacob entered this prison
and seated himself in his narrow cell,
than he found a Bible by his side and
himself alone. This was something new.
He had never been in solitude before,
where all was silence and solemnity.
Here he had nothing to do by night but
to review his life, to think alone upon his
melancholy state and what might be be¬
fore him. There lay his Bible, but it was
to him a sealed book, yet it awakened a
train of the most solemn reflections as
he received from day to day some new
lessons of instruction from his friends
and keepers.
Among the first and mc?* faithful of
these was the chaplain of the prison, the
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