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JACOB HODGES.
deep distress, he came at once to Jacob
for advice. Jacob could only encourage
him to resolute efforts and point him to
Christ. He went with him to the meeting
for inquiry and to his minister, till ulti¬
mately he was numbered among the nope
fully converted. The mother soon became
interested for her own salvation, and was
at length brought to embrace the offers of
life in the Redeemer. The father was next
apparently reached by the Spirit of God,
through the labours of their faithful friend
Jacob. The mother and son are now mem¬
bers of the church, and the father is great¬
ly changed in his habits of life, if not actu¬
ally renewed by the Spirit of God. How
many others may be found at last, saved
through the humble labours of this pray¬
ing African, is known only to him who
blesses the feeblest efforts of his saints.
Jacob's sense of gratitude and his love
for his friends were uncommonly ardent
and strong, and I never heard of an ex
pression of unkindness falling from hit
lips. To his last hours, he could not speak