“BEHOLD, HE PRAYETH |” 488

 

“WE OBSERVED HIM VERY EARNEST WITH HER, POINTING UP
TO THE SUN.”

her most passionately. Another time we saw him take out his
handkerchief and wipe her eyes, and then kiss her again with a
kind of transport very unusual; and after several of these things
we see him on a sudden jump up again, and lend her his hand to
help her up, when immediately, leading her by the hand a step or
two, they both kneeled down together, and continued so about two
minutes,

My friend could bear it no longer, but cries out aloud, “ St. Paul,
St. Paul! ‘behold, he prayeth!’” [ was afraid Atkins would
hear him, therefore I entreated him to withhold himself awhile,
that we might see an end of the scene, which to me, I must con-
fess, was the most atfecting, and yet the most agreeable, that ever I
saw in my life. Well, he strove with himself, and contained
himself for awhile, but was in such raptures of joy to think that