on His blessed work in my soul. I am now fifty-five years of age, and shall leave you in a few days; but I tell you, my brethren, I am more and more convinced that this is the truth of God, and that without it you can never be saved by Jesus Christ.1 Such is Whitefield’s testimony, and there can be no doubt that Scougal’s remarkable book was instrumental in creating an epoch-making influence in his spiritual life. It led to the “awakening of the soul,” and thus a Scottish teacher discharged no unimportant