My Dear Brother,—In response to your request for a sketch of my life, I may say, that although born of believing parents on November 9th, 1837, and trained by them according to their ideas of propriety, it became evident in my case that, "that which is born of the flesh is flesh," and although I was preserved from going to a great length in open profanity, I had no manifest spiritual life until I was over 21 years of age; still, there were three distinct events earlier than that, which I now know to be the work of the Holy Spirit. But in the summer of 1859, an answer given to a question propounded by me, was the means of opening my eyes, and sending…