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legal Christian. But how soon even this wore away-how soon I forgot God again. It is true I carried the semblance of what is generally accepted as Christian life from this time until after my marriage and removal to New York. It was but a short time after my removal to New York that I turned my back upon every means of grace. From 1841 to 1843 the unclear it of God again strove with me for a season, but I did not hear His voice, only grew worse and worse almost daily up to the day of my conversion. In the summer of 1854 I had, what has since appeared to me, a remarkable dream. I had gone home late at night entirely exhausted by my day's labor, and thrown myself upon the sofa in the parlor, too weary to undress and go to bed. I soon fell asleep, and in my sleep I thought that I was travelling along a road winding around a hill. Beautiful hedge-rows were on either side, and the scenery beyond, to the right and left was most beautifully grand, surpassing any thing I had ever seen; and the air was redolant? with the sweetest perfumes. To the left a charming lawn stretched out toward the west and up the hill, the back ground being filled up by a forest radiant with the variegated hues of autumnal foliage and blossoms. On the summit