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84 JACOB HODGES.
at Canandaigua, paid the following tri¬
bute to the memory of this servant of
Christ.
"Two weeks ago to-morrow Jacob
spent not less than two hours with me in
my study. We had much conversation
in relation to himself. Among other
things, he said, and from the connexion
in which he said it, I know that it was
not in the spirit of boasting, ' I have how
lived ten years in Canandaigua: every
body knows black Jacob, at least by sight,
and I challenge all, men, women and
children, to say, if I have ever injured
any body, or done anything inconsistent
with my profession, except that I have
not been as humble and as much like my
blessed Master as I ought to have been :
and this I know better than anybody can
tell me; and I am ashamed and mourn
for it.' This was saying much; more, 1
fear, than many of us dare say; but we
must all confess that it was a safe chal¬
lenge for Jacob.
" Some things I woul il particularly say