8 LITTLE ANH. [8 child, I learned that it was a considerable while ago since the Lord had more especially convinced her of her lost and fallen condition, as a child of Adam. She gave a very clear and scriptural account of her experience, and manifested an acquaintance with her own heart, and with the plan of salvation by grace, through faith in a crucified Redeemer, that at once surprised and delighted me. I was anxious to discover what book, or sermon, or individual had been first commissioned to arrest her mind; and. by what means the work had been carried on in her soul, to its then advanced state; and the more I inquired, the more I was convinced that the Holy Ghost himself had, from the very first dawn of her spiritual day, been the principal, and, in many instances, the only enlightener of her soul. She had, indeed, been a considerable time in a well-conducted Sunday School, and had received one of the first prizes, a copy of an elegant edition of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, as a reward for diligence and good behaviour; but she did not date any particular stage of her Christian experience from what she read or heard there, nor did it appear that her teach
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