_The Blessed Change._--Mrs. Knowles saw William before I went to him a second time. She, too, forbore alluding to the unpleasant circumstances, but she talked to him of our human sinfulness before God, and our need of a Saviour. Some of his most interesting conversations have since been with her. The second time I visited William his bodily strength had greatly failed, but his face was beautiful with a new light I had never seen there before. "I feel very differently now," he said, "God has forgiven all my sins." He then went on to express his sense of his own unworthiness; not that he had led a vicious life, but he felt he was a great sinner before God. In the course of conversation I told him his sister had inquired kindly about him; his eyes filled with tears, and he said: "Tell her I have been converted; I am very happy." The week before Easter, when the Bishop visited the hospital to administer confirmation, William was placed in a chair to receive the rite, and on Easter Day partook of his first communion. It was a glorious day for him. Mrs. Knowles visited him on that day. A few days after, as I sat by his bedside, he was speaking, as he always did now, of his sense of sinfulness, and his sense of pardon, when I reminded him of the early conversation, before alluded to, in which he had rested on his own moral character for acceptance with God. "Yes," he replied, "I used to think so, but I have been all wrong. Now I have no dependence but upon Jesus Christ." A little before this, he had said to Mrs. Knowles: "I never knew that just trusting in Christ would give me such peace." He has said repeatedly: "This sickness is the best thing that has ever happened to me. If it had not been for this, I should have gone on in worldliness." William has never been accustomed to the common religious phraseology. He is such a babe in such things, that his expressions are sometimes strikingly artless. At one time I was speaking of his sufferings, he looked up with a smile, and hesitating how to express the thought in his mind, said: "I think it is out of his affections God afflicts us." His sister had wept much when I delivered his message. As I returned a kind reply from her, he said: "Tell her I pray for her and her family every day." Then, when after a little conversation I had bidden him good-by, he called me back, and said: "Be sure and tell my sister I pray for her." He frequently said to me: "I pray for you everyday;" and on saying this to Mrs. Knowles, he added, at one time: "I speak your name to God when I pray."