"If any of my brethren and sisters in the faith should survive me with whom I have walked in soul-union and affection, they may regret that I have not left any record of the Lord's dealings with my soul; and I am not without a corresponding feeling, but circumstances have never favoured my doing so. When the Lord first commenced an effectual work in my soul, by the ploughshare of the law breaking up the fallow ground of my corrupt nature, and laying conviction of sin upon my conscience, about the year 1833, my father, who was then far advanced in years, and quite unacquainted with