106 THE HISTORY OF

but he had not forgotten me, as I shall shew
you presently, Sir. Faithful was He who call-
ed me, and held me up, that I should not fall.

I hearkened to the Captain while he told me
how greatly he loved me, and prayed me to
go with him to London, where he said that I
should become his wife. I should follow him,
he told me, into far distant countries, and when
he was wounded in battle, I should nurse him
and comfort him; in return for which he pro-
mised to love me, and never to leave me.

O! I tremble when I think how very near I
was falling into the snares that were laid for
me. O! my God, my God, how can I shew
my love and gratitude to thee, for having saved
me from the suggestions of my own evil heart!

While the Captain continued to talk to me,
the wind became louder and higher; the air be-
came very dark with the hard rain and hail;
the thunder, too, was heard more near, and
the lightning flashed through the windows of
the cottage.

The Captain took no notice of the storm ;
but I began to be much frightened, and these
terrors of my Almighty Father brought me to
a conviction of my sin and danger: as it were
all at once I awaked as from a dream; I recol-
lected how wrong it was in me to listen to the
flattering and deceitful words of the Captain.
I thought of the God who made me, and the
Saviour who died for me, and, struggling very
hard, I tried to get my hands free. But when
the gentleman would not let me go, I fell down
on my knees before him, and prayed him, for