Part 30 (1/2)

I laid all this before the young clergyreatly affected with it, and said to me, ”Did I not say, Sir, that when this man was converted he would preach to us all? I tell you, Sir, if this one man be made a true penitent, here will be no need ofa little composed myself I renewed my discourse with Will Atkins

”But, Will,” said I, ”how comes the sense of this matter to touch you just now?”

_WA_ Sir, you have set h ion to my wife, in order, as you directed me, to make a Christian of her; and she has preached such a seret while I live

_RC_ No, no; it is not your wife has preached to you; but when you werethem back upon you

_WA_ Ay, Sir, with such a force as is not to be resisted

_RC_ Pray, Will, let us knohat passed between you and your wife; for I know soive you a full account of it: I aue to express it: but let her have said what she will, and though I cannot give you an account of it, this I can tell you of it, that I resolve to amend and reform in Will? for this has been an extraordinary case, that is certain; she has preached a serht this upon you

_WA_ Why, I first told her the nature of our laws about e, and what the reasons were that ed to enter into such compacts as it was neither in the power of one or other to break; that otherwise, order and justice could not be maintained, and men would run from their wives and abandon their children, mix confusedly with one another, and neither faal descent

_RC_ You talk like a civilian, Will Could you make her understand what youaard to relation, consanguinity, or family; brother and sister, nay, as I have been told, even the father and daughter, and the son and the mother

_WA_ I believe, Sir, you are misinformed;--my wife assures me of the contrary, and that they abhor it Perhaps for any further relations they may not be so exact as we are; but she tells me they never touch one another in the near relations you speak of

_RC_ Well, what did she say to what you told her?

_WA_ She said she liked it very well; and it was much better than in her country

_RC_ But did you tell her what ue I asked her, if she would be married to me our way? She asked e was appointed of God; and here we had a strange talk together indeed, as ever ue between W Atkins and his wife, as I took it down in writing just after he told it me, was as follows:]

_Wife_ Appointed by your God! Why, have you a God in your country?

_WA_ Yes, my dear; God is in every country

_Wife_ No your God in reat old Benamnekee God

_WA_ Child, I am very unfit to shew you who God is; God is in heaven, and made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is

_Wife_ No makee de earth; no you God hed a little at her expression of God not h h

[He was justly reproved by his wife, for she was more serious than he at first]

_WA_ That's true, indeed; I will not laugh any more, my dear

_Wife_ Why you say, you God make all?