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easier ; chosen works were brought to them [to 

 aid the conversation and example of the pastor ; 

 rehgious feeUngs, and, with them, mutual bene- 

 volence, insinuated themselves into their hearts ; 

 quarrels, crimes, and lawsuits disappeared ; and, 

 if by chance, some dispute arose, they, with one 

 accord, came to Oberlin, and begged him to put 

 an end to it. In short, when this venerable 

 man was nearly at the end of his career, he was 

 able to say, that in this province, once so poor 

 and thinly populated, he left three hundred fa- 

 milies, regular in their habits, pious and enlight- 

 ened in their sentiments, enjoying remarkable 

 ease of circumstances, and provided witli the 

 means of perpetuating these blessings. A young 

 female peasant from one of these villages, named 

 Louise Scheppler, though scarcely fifteen years 

 of age, was so forcibly impressed with the virtues 

 of this man of God, that, although she enjoyed 

 a small patrimony, she begged to enter into his 

 service, and take a part in his charitable la- 

 bours. From that time she never accepted any 

 wages ; she never quitted him ; she became his 

 help, his messenger, and the guardian angel of 

 the rudest huts. She afforded the inhabitants 

 every species of consolation ; and in no instance 

 can w^e find a finer example of the power of feel- 



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