492 A RELIGIOUS COLLOQUY

goodness, and he would be infinitely just if he destroyed me as he
has done other men.

Wife. Well! and yet no kill, no makee you dead? What you
say to him for that? You no tell him tankee for all that too?

W. A. I am an unthankful, ungrateful dog, that’s true.

Wife. Why he no makee you much good better? You say he
makee you ?

W.A. He made me, as he made all the world. It is I have
deformed myself and abused his goodness, and made myself an
abominable wretch.

Wife. I wish you makee God know me. Ino makee him angry ;
T no do bad wicked thing.

[Here Will Atkins said his heart sank within him to hear a poor
untaught creature desire to be taught to know God, and he such a
wicked wretch that he could not say one word to her about God
but what the reproach of his own carriage would make most
irrational to her to believe; nay, that already she had told him
that she could not believe in God, because he that was so wicked
was not destroyed.]

W. A. My dear, you mean you wish I could teach you to know
God, not God to know you; for he knows you already, and every
thought in your heart.

Wife. Why, then, he know what I say to you now. He know
me wish to know him; how shall me know who makee me ?

W. A. Poor creature! he must teach thee; I cannot teach thee.
T’'ll pray to him to teach thee to know him, and to forgive me that
Tam unworthy to teach thee.

[The poor fellow was in such an agony at her desiring him to make
her know God, and her wishing to know him, that, he said, he fell
down on his knees before her, and prayed to God to enlighten her
mind with the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and to pardon
his sins, and accept of his being the unworthy instrument of
instructing her in the principles of religion ; after which he sat
down by her again, and their dialogue went on. This was the time
when we saw him kneel down and lift up his hands.]

Wife. What you put down the knee for? What you hold up

the hand for? What you say? Who you speak to? What is
all that ?