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JACOB HODGES.
tressing even to hear him. I have seen
him seized with violent trembling at the
hare mention of that subject.
" He has said to me,' Master, I do be¬
lieve that my heavenly Father loves me.
but how wonderful it is that he should
love me. I cannot love myself: it seems
to me that nobody ever sinned against
him as I have done."
"Jacob was an earnest Christian. He
was constantly examining himself. Every
sermon he heard, he sought to apply
someway as a test of his own character;
and he was never satisfied unless he saw
evidence that he was growing in grace.
To this end, he was diligent in his use of
all the means of grace. Until his health,
began to fail, during the present season,
he was very rarely absent from any reli¬
gious meeting; and his familiarity with
the Scriptures, acquired by the constant.
perusal of them, was truly wonderful
When I have met him and inquired after
his health, nothing was more common
than for him to reply in some such terms