I gather from my father's account of the Lord's dealings with him that he began to be awakened to a sense of his lost and ruined state before God when about 23 years of age. His parents were in poor circumstances, so that he was sent to service when very young, and to use his own words, there he learned to fake God's Holy Name in vain and to profane his holy sabbath, and also to indulge in some of the most sinful practices: But God, who is rich in mercy, in his own time and way, brought him to a knowledge of his sinful state, both by nature and practice,