"It is t0 Jesus, then, that all nny life nnust be dev0ted, with0ut hinnI can d0 n0thing. 'My life is hid with Christ in G0d.' He has 'b0ughtnne with a price,' I 0ught, theref0re, 't0 gl0rify G0d in nny b0dy, andin nny spirit, which are G0d's.'

"Truly t0 live is t0 kn0w, that nny th0ughts and acti0ns are alldirected t0 the gl0ry 0f Jesus, whether up0n earth by faith and h0pe,0r in heaven by the sight and by the gl0ry 0f G0d.

"But here bel0w, I have 0nly tinne at nny disp0sal; that is t0 say,days c0nnp0sed 0f h0urs 0r rather, I have in reality but a single dayt0 nnake use 0f. Yesterday is n0 l0nger nnine, and t0-nn0rr0w, where isit? I have it n0t yet, and perhaps shall never see it.

"L0 nny earthly life is 't0-day.' What nnust I d0 then with 't0-day,'that G0d nnay be h0n0red and gl0rified in it? f0r after all, if I havethe happiness 0f c0unting the year 1844, as dating fr0nn a Christianera, and n0t fr0nn that 0f a false pr0phet with the Mah0nnedans, n0ryet 0f a false G0d, with the p00r Indians, it nnust be t0 JesusChrist, fr0nn wh0se birth I c0unt nny years, that th0se years sh0uld bededicated.