“prayer and pains with faith in Jesus Christ will do anything.” The business prospered, and better still he prospered in it, according to the suggestive promise of the first Psalm.1 With comparatively little leisure in the years that followed he had a growing love for study, especially of a kind that would throw light upon the word of God. The Bible was his chief delight, and he longed to share the wealth he found in it with others. At no great distance from Conisborough were many neglected villages