I first saw the light in the village of Cowlinge, in Cambridgeshire, on February 5th, 1822. About three years after my birth my parents removed to London, taking me with them, and settled in an eastern district of our great metropolis. In the course of time it pleased God, in His infinite mercy, to call by His grace both my father and my mother. They attended a Baptist Chapel, and used to take me with them. This I intensely disliked, and at a comparatively early age I broke away from parental restraint, and determined to have my fill of the pleasures of this world, but soon found that "the way of transgressors is hard." At the age of eighteen, I tried hard to convince myself…