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CONVICT SHIP,

A NARRATIVE OF THE RESULTS OF SCRIPTURAL
INSTRUCTION AND MORAL DISCIPLINE ON

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BY THE REV. JAMES H. FOWLES,

RECTOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY,

PHILADELPHIA.

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."-HOSEA iv. 6.

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"The gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation to every one
that believeth "-ROM. i. 16.

"It is the Spirit that quickeneth."-JOHN vi. 63.

PHILADELPHIA:

LINDSAY & BLAKISTON.
1850.

Entered, according to the act of Congress, in the year 1850, by LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

W. S. YOUNG, PRINTER.

PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.

THIS little volume will fill the heart of every benevolent reader with wonder and gratitude. Its author is an intelligent, pious and zealous Surgeon of the Royal Navy-who was placed in charge of some two or three hundred English convicts, during their transportation, on board the Earl Grey, to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. His work consists of a narrative, told in a perspicuous and interesting style, of a successful attempt to elevate these unpromising subjects out of that state of ignorance and sin in which they were found. The means employed were simple, yet enlightened, self-denying and kind; and their results are of a character so encouraging, that they will scarcely be anticipated by the believer, and cannot be understood by the infidel. At their debarkation, nearly all the prisoners could read the Word of God, and upwards of one hundred gave hopeful evidence of a change of heart. Nor were these hopes unfounded. In the Appendix, which

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