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would break the first fury of the storm. He felt deeply 

 for them, but circumstances did not admit of his go- 

 ing with them. He, however, earnestly commended 

 them to God, and felt sure that all would be right. 

 The preacher went on his way, and when he came 

 round to that place again the two young people were 

 there accompanied by their parents. When they re- 

 turned home on the day of their conversion they found 

 the old people on the door-steps, looking for them, for 

 it was late. The young man fell at his father's knees, 

 weeping, and told the whole story; the daughter threw 

 her arms around her mother's neck, and told what the 

 Lord had done for her, and the result was that the old 

 people melted into tears, and begged their children to 

 pray for them. And so they had quite a little camp- 

 meeting scene, and the issue was that both the parents 

 were converted, and resolved to go with their children 

 to heaven. In relating the incident, Mr. Gassaway 

 said: "I knew it would be so that day when I prayed 

 for them, and was not at all surprised to hear the re- 

 sult; for such feelings as I had in that prayer never 

 deceive me." (Bishop Andrew.) Mr. Gassaway con- 

 tinued to the end of life the same laborious, zealous, 

 and holy minister of the gospel. He lived to a mature 

 old age; "and he died full of faith and the Holy 

 Ghost." 



