The book A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies was written by author James Backhouse Here you can read free online of A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies a good or bad book?
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He has had mercy upon me, but I can never forgive myself, nor love him sufficiently. What am I, or what are we all, that the Lord should thus regard us ?'' — In his illness, he said, he felt quite willing to die, that he cast himself upon his Saviour, and was quite willing to go. When his pain was excessive, he prayed, that if consistent with the divine will, he might be eased of his pain, and permitted to speak a few words of the Lord's goodness before he was taken away : his prayer was immedi...ately answered, and the violence of his pain assuaged. The old man made many inquiries of us, on the nature of prayer. He said, he had been taught to think his petitions would not be accepted, unless offered upon bended knees ; and that, for four years, he had not Digitized by VjOOQIC 222 GLENORCHY. [8th DdO. missed a night in getting out of bed to pray, in addition to praying before going to bed^ and on rising; but that he began to think, it was perhaps unnecessary for him to get out of bed for this purpose, and that he was nearly unable to do so.
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