BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE, 493

W. A. My dear, T bow my knees in token of my submission to
him-that made me. I said “O” to him, as you call it, and as you
say your old men do to their idol Benamuckee ; that is, I prayed
to him.

Wife. What you say “O” to him for ?

W. A. I prayed to him to open your eyes and your understand-
ing, that you may know him and be accepted by him.

Wefe. Can he do that too?

W. A. Yes, he can; he can do all things. -

Wife. But now he hear what you say ?

W.A. Yes; he has bid us pray to him, and promised to hear us,

Wife. Bid you pray? When he bid you? How he bid you?
What! you hear him speak ?

IV. 4l. No, we do not hear him speak ; but he has revealed him-
self many ways to us.

[Here he was at a great loss to make her understand that God has

rovealed himself to us by his Word, and what his Word was, But
at last he told it her thus :—]

W. a. God has spoken to some good men in former days, even
from heaven, by plain words; and God has inspired good men by
his Spirit, and they have written all his laws down in a book.

Wife. Me no understand that. Where is Book?

W. zt. Alas, my poor creature, I have not this book! but I
hope I shall one time or other get it for you, and help you to
read it.

[Here he embraced her with groat affection, but with inexpressible
grief that ho had not a Bible.]

Wife. But how you makee me know that God teachee them
to write that book ?

W. A. By the same rule that we know him to be God.

Wife. What rule, what way you know him?

W. A. Because he teaches and commands nothing but what is
good, righteous, and holy, and tends to make us perfectly good, as
well as perfectly happy; and because he forbids and commands us
to avoid all that is wicked, that is evil in itself, or evil in its
consequences.