“It was in November, 1823, but what date of the month I do not know. I remember this, that everything looked new to me — the people, the fields, the trees. I was like a man in a new world. I spent the greater part of my time in praising the Lord. I was a new man altogether.
“I told all that I met what the Lord had done for my soul. I’ve heard some say that they have had hard work getting away from their companions. But I sought mine out, and had hard work to tell them what the Lord had done for me. Some said I was mad, and others that they should get me back next pay day. But, praise the Lord, it is now more than forty years and they have not get me yet. They said I was a mad man, but they meant I was a glad man, and glory be to God, I have been glad ever since.”
ML-12/24/1972