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of the subject to his own case, that he took him to 

 the vestry, and introduced him to the zealous 

 preacher, who spoke very impressively to him, and 

 gave him a bible. 



On that very evening, the minister of the Irish 

 church repeated this to me : and Doghery became 

 the subject of our especial prayers. 



From the time of receiving the bible, he studied 

 it daily — hourly. A change most striking came 

 over his whole aspect and character. His memo- 

 rable petition had succeeded, so that he got a place 

 as porter in an apothecary's establishment : and he 

 who never before could remain sober for two or 

 three days, and was sure to loose every situation 

 within a week, was now so temperate, so faithful, 

 so diligent, so steady, that he won the perfect con- 

 fidence of his employers. Still, being an out-door 

 servant, and having a little motherless girl to sup- 

 port, at nurse, he was unable to afford himself the 

 means to remove from his wretched lodging to one 

 less miserable. He occupied a corner in a dense- 

 ly inhabited court, near Covent Garden, surround- 

 ed by the most bigotted of his unhappy country- 

 men, w r ho made Doghery and his heretic bible the 

 objects of their fiercest animosity. However, the 

 Lord helped him to make a good confession, in 

 meekness and love, even here : and after a propei 

 season of probation, Doghery was admitted a com 

 municant at the Lord's table in the beloved Irisb 



