"During this time I had many solemn thoughts of death and eternity, and many almost sleepless nights on account of sins committed. I was apprenticed to a wool-comber, and my fellowworkmen were of a most drunken class, so that I soon became a prey to all manner of sin. The hidden evils of my heart broke out in every hideous form, and I neither feared God nor regarded man. At the age of sixteen it pleased God to quicken my dead soul, open my blind eyes, and unstop my deaf ears, and he made me feel that living and dying as I was then, hell must be my eternal portion.