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JACOB HODGES.
" How do you get rid of these feelings
of despondency, Jacob ?"
** Fall down at his feet and never give
him rest till he gives me rest by his
Spirit."
" Fall down at his feet?"
" Fall down at the foot of the cross and
pray for his mercy and the enlightening
influence of his Spirit."
" Fall down, you say ?"
" Kneel down, I mean by falling down."
" Do you commonly do that when you
pray ?"
"Yes; but then I am always looking to
God, when I am working on any thing."
" Does it do you good to kneel down to
pray?"
" It does; I have found along back
that I have let the world and business
stop me when I have been pressed by the
Spirit to go and pray, and I have found
'ately that the only way that I can obtain
the Spirit of God, at all times, is to prav
often."
" How often ?"