Reflection 86

On the approaching decision for abolition – a prayer that God would turn men’s hearts to favor the bill and to keep his own heart aright…

“How popular Abolition is, just now! God can turn the hearts of men.” “What an awful moment is this!” is his entry two days later. “The decision of the great question approaches. May it please God, who has the hearts of all in His hands, to turn them as in the House of Lords; and enable me to have a single eye, and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow-creatures, and to testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.”

Date: Mid-February 1807

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