Respected Sir.  Accept my grateful acknowlegements for your kindness in thus noticing me.  A christian friend here, I value as I should a flower in the desert.  I shall be happy to converse with you in any way, but as it respects your particular situation, the method you have proposed I think the most prudent of any that could be adopted.  I shall consider it a great privilege, yet I feel that my conversation will be neither edifying, nor interesting to you, only so far as relates to the cause.  But I hope you will consider that I am but an infant in the school of Christ, & treat me accordingly for I need your advice, your instruction & your prayers.

            As my feelings are different from what they were formerly, I shall proud to tell you the change, (that I can but fully describe it) I may date the first of my serious impressions as far back as the 1^st of January, tho it was but an occasional admonition of conscience until March.  Several circumstances combined about that time to awaken me.  Till then I had quieted myself with the idea that I was better than many others, & that if I now attended to the