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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, An account of the Death of Philip Jolin, by
+Francis Cunningham
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+Title: An account of the Death of Philip Jolin
+       who was executed for the murder of his father, in the Island of Jersey, October 3, 1829
+
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+Author: Francis Cunningham
+
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+Release Date: October 22, 2012  [eBook #41145]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF PHILIP
+JOLIN***
+
+
+Transcribed from the 1830 Hatchard and Son edition by David Price, email
+ccx074@pglaf.org
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+
+                                AN ACCOUNT
+                                    OF
+                                THE DEATH
+                                    OF
+                              PHILIP JOLIN,
+                             WHO WAS EXECUTED
+                                 FOR THE
+              MURDER OF HIS FATHER, IN THE ISLAND OF JERSEY,
+                             OCTOBER 3, 1829.
+
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                    BY
+                        FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM, A. M.
+                           RECTOR OF PAKEFIELD.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                  LONDON: HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY;
+              SEELEY AND SONS, FLEET STREET; AND J. NESBITT,
+                             BERNERS STREET.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                  1830.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                 LONDON:
+           IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.
+
+
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENT.
+
+
+To determine the real state of mind in a criminal manifesting, for the
+first time, when under sentence of death, signs of repentance, is plainly
+a work of much difficulty.  If ever dissimulation may be expected, it
+must be in the case of a person probably long habituated, and, in his
+present circumstances, additionally excited to it by the fear of death:
+and the experience of every minister of religion conversant in such
+cases, must teach him that professions of religion, under such
+circumstances, are far oftener the language of alarm, than of real
+conversion.  Every one, therefore, would earnestly covet, with Mr.
+Newton, to know rather how the man lived, than how he had died.  But here
+the life and the death may offer the most conflicting evidence.  How
+difficult it is then so to decide as not, on the one hand, to make “the
+heart of the righteous sad, whom God has not made sad;” upon the other,
+to say “peace” to the soul, “when there is no peace.”
+
+Most of the cases of religious communication with dying criminals,
+recorded in the public prints, are in the highest degree painful.  The
+chaplain goes through the forms of instruction, the sermon is preached,
+and then, without one proof being assigned of the fitness of the criminal
+for that solemn ordinance of religion, the sacrament is administered.
+All the requisitions of our church, as to “those who come to the Lord’s
+supper,” are passed by.  The deep workings of repentance, and longing for
+amendment, the exercise of a lively faith in Christ, the thankful
+remembrance of his death, the feeling of universal charity so difficult
+in such circumstances; in short, every evidence of an awakened and
+converted heart is neglected, and the man forced upon a hypocritical
+avowal of truth, to which he is in reality utterly a stranger.  He dies,
+in fact, with “a lie in his right hand”—a lie, the guilt of which is
+surely divided between himself and the minister who urges him to the rash
+reception of the sacrament.
+
+It is under the deepest conviction of the difficulty of such cases, that
+the present tract, recording the events of the last eleven days in the
+life of a criminal is presented to the public.  His crimes had been
+great, but hypocrisy was not amongst their number.  His faculties were
+not such as to give him any peculiar facility in adopting the truths
+presented to him.  He had received no previous religious instruction.  He
+had no uncommon power of utterance.  Let the reader judge whether the
+words and conduct, both before and after conviction, as recorded in these
+pages, do not supply an evidence of the power of God to reclaim the
+wanderer even in the eleventh hour; and are not calculated, in the
+highest degree, to encourage the often disconsolate visitor of the sick,
+the dying, and the criminal.  The facts here recorded have been collected
+partly by personal communication, partly from letters to the writer from
+the Rev. W. C. Hall, and partly from a printed account of the Rev. E.
+Durell.  The substance of the statement was first inserted in the
+Christian Observer, and it is now submitted, with some alteration, to the
+public, and with an earnest desire that its perusal may, through the
+Divine blessing, tend to the glory of that compassionate Saviour, to
+whose service it is dedicated.
+
+
+
+
+THE
+LAST DAYS OF PHILIP JOLIN,
+LATELY EXECUTED AT ST. HELENS,
+FOR
+THE MURDER OF HIS FATHER.
+
+
+THE particulars of the crime of this unfortunate young man may be stated
+in a few words.  He had long been known in the neighbourhood where he
+lived, as an object of disgrace, and the cause of perpetual disturbance.
+Not indeed that he was more profligate in character than those with whom
+he was immediately connected.  His father, as well as his mother-in-law,
+lived in habits of drunkenness.  She died eight months before the son
+committed the crime for which he suffered.  Jolin was, with his father,
+by trade a blacksmith.  His business brought with it some temptation to
+drinking; and, in Jersey, where spirits are cheaper even than in England,
+this disposition was most easily gratified.  So that, with the example of
+his parents, and his own circumstances, it is not a matter of
+astonishment that he fell into the course of sin which led to his ruin.
+The progress of vice was, it is to be presumed, in his case, like that of
+other drunkards.  The liquor, at first taken as a bodily relief,
+unguarded by any restraint, was soon resorted to as an indulgence; till
+at last he was enlisted in the number of those of whom the prophet
+speaks, “who rise up in the morning that they may follow their drink, and
+continue till night, till wine inflames them.”  But the abominable
+tendency of this particular sin is illustrated almost equally by the
+conduct of the father and son.
+
+It appeared on the trial of Jolin, that he had been exposed to the
+greatest cruelties on the part of his father.  One person deposed, that
+he had often seen him beat his son with a hammer, or any thing else,
+which might happen to come under his hand, and almost always about the
+head; and the scars from these wounds were seen on his head when he was
+committed to prison.  Another, that she had once heard the prisoner’s
+mother cry out for help.  She went in, and saw the son down, and the
+father striking him with an iron bar, saying at the same time, that he
+was going to kill him.  Very often he would not give him any food.
+Another witness testified, that, going into the house of the father, he
+saw him put down a flat iron bar, with which he had just been striking
+his son on the head, and his head was covered with blood.  He was laid on
+his bed, but his father refused to allow any assistance to be tendered to
+him.  This witness had seen the father kick his son about several parts
+of the body.  What a contrast is all this to that scene which the
+psalmist describes of a household where the Spirit of God dwells—“Behold,
+how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity,
+for there the Lord commandeth his blessing.”  These facts are introduced,
+not only in explanation of the subject, but that some light may be thrown
+on the appeal which Jolin afterwards made to his judge on his own behalf.
+
+On the morning on which the last crime was committed, as Jolin confessed
+to one who attended upon him in prison, he had drank to excess, and
+become completely intoxicated.  In this state he returned to his own
+home—a home of which, he added, “no one knew the wretchedness.”  It was
+dinner time, but he found no food prepared, and from his father he met
+with only that reception which he might expect from such a parent; more
+especially when he himself was overcome with drunkenness.  He went into
+the garden to gather a pear, and about this the fatal quarrel ensued.
+The father had come behind, and caught him by the cape of the jacket, and
+kicked him about the back and legs.  He tore himself from his father, and
+was soon seen running out of the house crying, and the father in the act
+of pursuing, as if with the intention of striking him.  The father said
+that he would “settle him when he returned.”  The son replied, that he
+would “settle him (the father) also.”  The son then ran to a heap of
+bricks which lay in the street, and taking one which he appears to have
+broken in two pieces, he returned to be revenged on his father.  He was
+remonstrated with by a neighbour, but in vain.  In his rage he threw the
+brickbats at his father.  One of the pieces struck him on the head, and
+he immediately fell to the ground.  The wretched sufferer swooned from
+the violence of the blow and the loss of blood.  In this state he appears
+to have remained, with very little change, for about an hour, when he
+died.  It is not stated whether he was enabled to cry for mercy to that
+God, into whose presence he was thus awfully hurried; or whether he had
+time to reflect upon the state of his son, and his probable punishment.
+How awful must have been the change to this wretched man, when he found
+himself in a moment lifting up his eyes before the Judge of quick and
+dead!
+
+Meanwhile, the son, utterly unconscious of what he had done, or feeling
+only satisfaction at what he thought was the suitable punishment for his
+father, went out again, and finding his way into a neighbour’s shop, told
+the keeper of it that his father had beaten him, and that he had knocked
+him down.  Here he fell asleep, and slept probably till his fit of
+intoxication had passed away.  On rising he was about quietly and
+unsuspectingly to return to the scene of his crime, when he was arrested
+and brought to prison.  When, on the way to the prison, he was told that
+his conduct might possibly bring him to the gallows, he showed his first
+symptom of alarm.  He remained in prison till Thursday, September 24,
+when he was submitted to his first public examination.  The trial,
+according to the laws of that country, was repeated on Monday the 28th.
+The judges, and two juries, in number together thirty-seven, after the
+fullest investigation of the facts, and after hearing the able defence of
+his advocate, Mr. Hammond, pronounced his crime to be murder, and
+condemned him to death.  The court refused even to make application for
+the mitigation of punishment, whereupon he was delivered to the execution
+of his sentence, which he underwent on Saturday, Oct. 3d.
+
+There were many particulars in this case, in addition to the remarkable
+nature of the crime, and indeed the rareness of any crime of such
+magnitude in the small district in which it occurred, that made it a
+subject of very general notice.  One leading circumstance was the
+manifest alteration which took place in Jolin’s mind during the period of
+his imprisonment.  Upon this point there was an entire agreement of
+opinion amongst all persons who had any acquaintance with the real state
+of the case.  Not only ministers, both of the church and the Dissenters,
+but persons of other classes, bore testimony to the reality of _a_
+change; the _nature_ of which, however, not so many persons could detect,
+as its very striking effects.  The newspaper spoke of an “alteration”
+which took place in him, of his “confession, in the most humble terms, of
+his own sinfulness;” of “his forcible admonitions to others to abstain
+from evil, and to practise the duties of religion and morality;” but of
+the change of heart which this case exhibited, the editor of the paper
+seems to have had no real understanding.  The case of Jolin, convinced of
+his sin, however, is that of a man, not merely convinced of his guilt in
+one instance, and anxious to warn others not converted by the Holy Ghost,
+acknowledging his total alienation of heart from God, and persuaded that
+all his repentance, all his good resolutions, could never expiate his
+past sins; but that, as he himself said, “Christ was his only hope; for
+HE had paid his ransom, and He would receive him into glory.”
+
+The greater part of persons who have had much experience in visiting the
+dying sick, or condemned criminals, have, in general, little confidence
+in a repentance which only springs up under the apprehension of immediate
+death, whatever flights of sentiment may be exhibited.  They have seen in
+the backsliding of men who promised every thing in the time of sickness,
+how vain, generally speaking, are the convictions of their sincerity.  In
+the greater part of these cases, there is a want of completeness in the
+work of repentance and faith, which the experienced pastoral visitor is
+often able to detect; too little of real contrition, or too much of
+profession and confidence.  But in the case in question, those who
+visited Jolin confess themselves to have been impressed, as they might
+conceive the spectators to be affected by the case of the thief on the
+cross.  One and all were led to say, “this is the finger of God.”  Under
+such circumstances, it cannot surely be wrong to gather together a few
+particulars of this history, which will be interesting to those, at
+least, who have experienced the power of divine grace in their own change
+of heart, and who rejoice in every display of it in the sinner that
+repenteth.
+
+Jolin appears in early life to have been sent to school, although he
+said, that such had been the irregularity of his father’s house, and such
+the hindrances thrown in his way, that he had been more impeded than
+encouraged by his parents, in any attempt to attend upon the public means
+of religious instruction.  How tremendous is the responsibility of such a
+father and mother; culpable in their neglect, but awfully so in their
+example!  And what a case is here presented of the retributive justice of
+God!  The father trained his child in habits of intoxication, and treated
+him with cruel violence; and the son, in a fit of intoxication, by an act
+of violence, hurried his father headlong to the bar of God’s judgment.
+We are not able, often, so clearly to trace the workings of Almighty
+wrath; nor is it to be expected, that, placed as we are in a state in
+which we must look for our rewards or punishments beyond the grave, we
+should here see any proportionate recompense of crime.  Still we know,
+that “as a man sows so he shall also reap,” if not in this world, to
+bring him to repentance, yet certainly, and how much more awfully! in
+that world where a place for repentance is no where found.
+
+This young man, on some occasions previous to his committal to prison,
+had read the Bible; for he remarked to one of his attendants, that when
+at sea, during his watch, he had done so; but he added, “I then read it
+as a sealed book.  I had neither eyes given me to see, nor ears to hear,
+and this was a just judgment upon me for my sins.”  His mode of life had,
+indeed, been one of complete dissoluteness.  He went to sea, because he
+was too bad to remain on land; and he returned to shore, probably because
+he was wearied of the restraints at sea.  The relations of the family,
+disgusted at the scenes of vice in his father’s house, abandoned them.
+So that it is not easy to conceive a state of lower degradation than this
+young man had reached.  No one, as he himself said, could describe the
+misery of this state as he had experienced it.  What situation could
+indeed more completely tend to brutalize the mind, to deaden every
+feeling of conscience, to leave the man long habituated to it “without
+hope,” and indeed “without God in the world?”  The nature of the crime
+for which Jolin was committed to prison, was such as to increase the
+general horror against him.  This was exhibited by the crowd, in the
+streets, on the occasion of his trial; so that his various crimes had
+made him an outcast from the pity and compassion of his fellow-creatures.
+It is true, there were particular circumstances in his case, which, if
+generally known, would have lessened the public indignation, and which
+might have been a source of secret satisfaction to himself.  These were
+the exceeding badness of his education, the brutality of his father, the
+continual discord of his family, the state of intoxication in which he
+was when he unintentionally committed the crime; but these points,
+although once alluded to in his appeal to his judges, were scarcely
+mentioned by him in his private conversations, so completely was the
+conviction established in his mind, that he had fallen into sin by the
+wilfulness of his own heart, that he had destroyed himself; and that to a
+greater depth of transgression he could scarcely have reached.
+
+After Jolin had been lodged in gaol, he was visited by a very respectable
+relative, Mr. Pinel, a member of the Methodist church.  He made this
+visit, as he himself testified, without the hope of any spiritual
+benefit.  He, however, desired to relieve his temporal necessities, and
+to afford him all the comfort in his power.  He found the poor culprit in
+a most pitiable state.  Overwhelmed and stunned by his situation, he was
+lying on a heap of straw, and appeared like one who had no hope to look
+to in this world, or the next.  Mr. Pinel said to him, “Young man, I
+think both your body and your soul are in great danger.”  Jolin did not
+answer, but sobbed excessively.  He then procured for him a bed, and some
+comfortable clothing, and put into his hands a French Testament.  Soon
+after, as there was at that time no chaplain regularly appointed to the
+gaol, Jolin was visited by the curate of the parish, M. Falle.  After
+some days, M. Falle’s great occupation in his ministry led him to
+transfer this important and interesting charge to the Rev. W. C. Hall, a
+young clergyman residing in the island, who took the more immediate care
+of him, watched over, instructed, and finally attended him through the
+dark valley of the shadow of death, till he reached, as I doubt not, the
+portal of the heavenly abode.  Meanwhile the Testament was not neglected
+by Jolin.  He read it nearly through; but, in the first instance, it
+would seem, without understanding the nature of the message which it was
+designed to convey.  His mind, however, was no doubt gradually preparing
+by the Holy Spirit to receive the instruction about to be more fully
+imparted.  On the 22d of September, about ten days before his execution,
+Jolin was visited by Mr. Hall and another clergyman.  He was then sitting
+in his bed, and looking as wretched as might be expected under the
+circumstances in which he was placed; as Mr. Pinel had stated, “without
+hope for this world, or the next.”  They immediately entered upon the
+object of their visit, and spoke to him of the nature of his offence; of
+the sin of murder, as condemned by the law of God, and aggravated in his
+case, because committed against a parent; of its sentence in the judgment
+of men, and its heinousness in the sight of God.  They pointed out to
+him, that, awful as is man’s sentence against this crime, little
+consideration was due to this in comparison with the condemnation which
+the law of God pronounced; and that this condemnation had passed upon
+him, and that the execution of its sentence of eternal death would be
+inflicted if he did not repent, and seek help and pardon through Jesus
+Christ.  All this was manifest, for it was written in the word of God,
+that murderers should have their part in the lake which burneth with fire
+and brimstone (Rev. xxi. 8;) that drunkards should not inherit the
+kingdom of God, (1 Cor. vi. 10:) and this condemnation, it was also
+pointed out, extended not only to these crimes, but to that of the
+general sin of the heart, and was the necessary consequence of its
+separation and alienation from God.  That this condemnation would come
+upon all sinners was evident, for it is written, “The wages of sin is
+death,” (Rom. vi. 23.)  One point appeared particularly to produce the
+deepest sensation of pain in this young man’s mind; this was the
+representation of the conduct of God towards him in reference to his
+father; that whilst that unhappy man had been cut off, and sent almost
+without warning, with all his sins upon him, before the Judge who will
+deal with every man according to his works, he, the murderer, had been
+spared, and brought into a prison, where he had opportunity given him to
+reflect upon his state, to seek for pardon, and where salvation was
+offered to him, if he would turn and seek it.  The cry of, “Oh my father,
+my poor father!” mingled with his sobs on that occasion.
+
+Although Jolin’s crime was so palpable, and was confessed by him in the
+fullest, yet as it was committed unconsciously, and he had seen no traces
+of it, except in what others told him, the whole seemed like a dream; and
+the deed itself, with its appalling circumstances, were not likely to
+fasten themselves on his mind as if it had been premeditated, or as if he
+had been in full possession of his understanding, or as if he, which he
+himself wished, had seen his father’s murdered corpse.  However, this
+circumstance afterwards appeared to turn out to his advantage.  It
+prevented him from fixing his thoughts exclusively on a particular sin;
+and he was thus less hindered in discovering the sinfulness of his nature
+and of his general habits, and learning the lesson it is often so
+difficult to comprehend, that we are not less condemned by the law of God
+for our general alienation from him, than for any one or more scandalous
+offences which we may have committed.  Not that this state of mind in
+Jolin prevented him from coming to the deepest sense of his own
+particular offence; for as he learned more thoroughly to understand the
+nature of sin in general, his feeling for his peculiar crime more deeply
+penetrated his soul.  One other subject seemed to produce in him the same
+intense state of feeling which the mention of his father had done; this
+was the sin of intemperance, which had, as I have before remarked, been
+the immediate cause of his crime.  Mr. Hall, thinking that he might be
+suffering from the cold, confined as he was in a large stone-chamber, of
+which the window was usually open, guarded him against seeking a refuge
+from his sufferings from drinking.  At the mention of this, he went off
+again into expressions of horror at the supposed possibility of such an
+offence in his tremendous circumstances, and declared that nothing should
+again tempt him thus to transgress.  Yet, as Mr. Hall observes, were his
+resolutions expressed rather as if smarting under the penalty of his
+crime, than as if conscious of his own inability to keep the engagement
+which he was entering into.  He spoke as a man strong in his own
+strength, and as yet unacquainted with the perfect weakness of resolution
+not formed in dependence upon the power of God.
+
+On the point of again falling into the sins of which he seemed to have
+repented, three distinct states were noticed in Jolin’s case before his
+execution.  At first, as at this visit, he was fully confident that, if
+he were once more to be set at liberty, he should never again become
+intoxicated.  Afterwards, when he came to discover the exceeding weakness
+of his nature, he even dreaded the possibility of his life being accorded
+to him, lest he should again fall into temptation.  And, lastly, he
+learned to believe, that having cast himself entirely upon Divine grace,
+and, therefore, using those means of watchfulness and prayer which the
+word of God prescribes, he needed not fear, if he were called again to
+life, the temptation even to those vices to which he had been most
+habituated.  On the occasion of this visit, the fifty-first Psalm was
+pointed out to him.  It was in the Prayer-book version, as there was no
+Bible at hand.  This Psalm, so remarkably calculated to meet the
+experience of a man feeling deeply his sins, and more particularly of one
+implicated as he was in such a variety of vice, struck his attention very
+deeply; and the more so when, the next day, it was read to him in the
+Bible translation, and its chief points expounded to him.  He learned a
+great part of this Psalm by heart; it was nearly the last portion of
+Scripture that he repeated; and it became one of the subjects of his
+meditation during the long nights in which he was shut up alone.
+
+The next day, the 23d, two or three passages of Scripture were introduced
+to his notice; besides which a fuller view was presented to him of the
+nature and consequences of sin.  On this occasion he was taught in what
+manner sin is the defilement of the whole heart; that even the sins of
+his youth brought him just as much into condemnation before a holy God as
+his one great crime; that eternal death was the wages of every
+transgression of the Divine law; and that repentance unto life required
+not only a feeling of sorrow for one sin, but for every sin, yea, for sin
+itself, as an offence against the Almighty.  The promises of God to the
+chief of sinners were then pointed out him from Isa. i. 18, that “though
+his sins were as scarlet, they might be made white as snow;” and from
+Isa. lv. 6, 7, that “if the wicked forsook his way, and returned unto the
+Lord, he would have mercy, and abundantly pardon.”  The former of these
+passages remained fixed in his memory, and was a continual source of
+consolation to his mind.  He now began to feel that his sins were as
+scarlet, and to desire earnestly to be pardoned.  Two other passages were
+also at that time referred to, and enlarged upon.  The first of these was
+John iii. 14, 15.  “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
+even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth on him
+should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  This type presenting so
+remarkable an image of the Lord Jesus Christ lifted up to bear the sins
+of his people, and affording a remedy to those who really believe in Him,
+was peculiarly calculated to meet his case: and he was further taught
+from it, that as this people, if they had rather chosen to trust to other
+remedies, or had refused to look at the brazen serpent, or had spent
+their time in mourning over their maladies, instead of doing as they were
+commanded, would never have been healed; so if the sinner does not look
+to Christ, there is no hope for him.  One other important lesson was also
+gathered from this subject; namely, that “if a serpent had bitten any
+man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived;” and in like manner,
+“Whosoever believeth on Jesus Christ shall not perish, but have eternal
+life.”  Jolin was thus instructed in the mode of pardon before God,
+through the merits of Jesus Christ; and in the efficacy of this remedy,
+the universality of it to all that believe, and the nature of faith, the
+means by which it can alone be appropriated.
+
+The last passage referred to was the history of the Scape goat, contained
+in Lev. xvi.  In this history we find that Aaron, whilst the people
+afflicted their souls, (ver. 29,) laid both his hands on the head of the
+live goat, and confessed on him all the iniquities of the children of
+Israel, and all their transgressions, putting them upon the head of the
+goat, and that the goat bore away with him all their iniquities into a
+land not inhabited.  The illustration of this subject, and its
+application to Jolin’s own case, were very obvious.  The people
+“afflicting their soul,” denoted the state in which every sinner must
+present himself before God—for it is the broken and the contrite heart
+which God will not despise; the “confession of sin” on the head of the
+goat pointed out the first and necessary duty of the returning
+penitent—for “if we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and the
+truth is not in us; but if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
+to forgive us our sins:” the laying the sins upon the head of the goat
+exhibited the act of faith, by which the condemnation of the sinner is
+transferred to his atoning sacrifice; and the leading away the goat into
+the wilderness, the full, perfect, and eternal pardon promised in the
+Gospel, of every sin to every repenting sinner.
+
+Although Jolin was not a person of uncommon capacity, and although these
+passages of Scripture seemed to be new to him, yet he apprehended them in
+a manner which gave just indication that his heart was under the Divine
+teaching.  It is said, Isa. liv. 13, “All thy children shall be taught of
+the Lord.”  This state of teachableness now seemed to have been produced
+in this poor young man.  The power of God had made his heart _willing_,
+Ps. cx. 3; and he came very soon to understand the truths by which he
+might be saved.  When the will of man is not disposed to submit to God,
+every doctrine of the Gospel presents difficulties; one point is
+unreasonable, another impossible, a third useless; but when the mind is
+taught of God, it is astonishing how soon all these difficulties vanish.
+The doctrines of the Gospel, which seem the most hard to understand and
+to receive, are at once comprehended.  It is like a change from darkness
+to light.  The passages of Scripture which teach the sinfulness of our
+own nature, the worth of a Saviour, the nature of faith, the pleasantness
+of religion, the delight attendant upon dwelling with God, are at once
+received and adopted; and the whole system of Christianity is discovered
+to be one exactly suited to the sinner’s own state.  But the willingness
+of heart which is necessary to a right reception of religion, we are
+every where in Scripture taught, is the gift of the Holy Spirit.  It
+cometh “not of blood,” that is, from our parents; “nor of the will of the
+flesh,” that is, by our own natural inclination; “nor of the will of
+man,” that is, by the teaching of others; “but of God.”  “The wind
+bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst
+not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth: so is every one that is
+born of the Spirit.”  We see then how necessary it is that, if any man
+“lack wisdom,” he should “ask it of God;” and so much the more, as our
+Lord himself declares, Luke xi. 13, his desire to give his Holy Spirit to
+them that ask him.
+
+The 24th was the day of Jolin’s first trial, at the close of which he was
+found guilty.  Some of his friends, whom he had asked to go to him, went
+after the trial.  They expected to find him, on this occasion, in some
+degree disturbed and agitated in mind; but it was altogether otherwise.
+The irons to which he was sentenced were put on him in their presence.
+To this, as the natural consequence of his condemnation, he submitted
+almost without notice.  Indeed, the trial and the condemnation itself
+seem to have made little or no impression upon him; for it was only by
+minute and repeated inquiry as to the proceedings of the day, that
+visitors could obtain from him any account of them.  His mind seemed
+absorbed in something else; and what this was, afterwards appeared.  His
+conduct, during his trial, had been remarked by many of his judges, as
+entirely suitable to his awful situation.  Indeed, his whole frame of
+mind was now beginning to discover the influence of a new principle, and
+to show that the great work of regeneration was taking place.  In the
+early part of his confinement, and indeed very recently, he had wished,
+as he might naturally, for his escape; and his cry to his advocate had
+been, “Save me from the gallows;” but at this period, the desire that his
+life might be spared, seemed to be taken away from him in a most
+astonishing degree.  It was not so with the very zealous and able
+advocate to whom his cause had been committed, and who very properly
+continued to the end, to urge every plea, and to encourage his client to
+every effort, by which his punishment might be remitted, or even delayed.
+His friends too were most kindly anxious on this point; and they even
+attempted to prove him insane, that they might effect their purpose.  For
+a time he was influenced by the same desire.  But to those who visited
+him about this period, he never once alluded to a desire to escape; but
+on the contrary, seemed almost always to refer to his sentence without
+apparent emotion; and towards the end, he appeared to long for, and to be
+earnest for its completion.  This state of mind was no doubt to be
+attributed to two causes; in part, to a complete acquaintance with the
+state of his own case, and to its final settlement by his judges; but
+probably much more to his new state of religious feeling; a sense of his
+own spiritual condition had begun to swallow up every other
+consideration.
+
+A friend had given him the second chapter of the Ephesians for his
+consideration, that he might gain still further views of his state of
+guilt and defilement, and that he might more clearly trace both the power
+of Divine grace, by which the sinner is quickened, and the bright
+prospect placed before those who seek for pardon by the blood of Christ.
+The conversation of this day led to the subjects contained in this
+chapter; and more particularly to the impossibility of man’s pardon, but
+by the grace of God, through Christ Jesus.  In the midst of a statement
+of the hindrances in the way of salvation, from the evil of our heart,
+the weakness of our best endeavours, and the defilement of our services,
+Jolin remarked, “I must put off my sins.”  It was asked, what he meant by
+putting off his sins.  His answer manifested at once the simple, but
+clear, manner in which he had received the Scripture illustration pointed
+out to him the day before, and it was truly gladdening to the feelings of
+his visitors: “Did you not tell me yesterday about the live goat on whose
+head the sins were laid?”  The application of the type of the scape goat
+had thus been made by him to his own state; and he had arrived at the
+conviction, that, whatever might have been his sins, and whatever were
+his hindrances, he was permitted to “put them all off,” upon that
+all-sufficient atonement, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of
+the world.  He had thus been enabled to feel his burden, to bring it to
+the cross of Christ; and at once it seemed to have fallen from him at the
+feet of his Redeemer.
+
+The nature of faith is illustrated in a very interesting manner, by the
+case of Jolin.  The sinfulness of his own state he knew, and felt deeply.
+He did not, however, seek to excuse himself, or to palliate his offences:
+he did not think that past services would be any compensation to God;
+that any circumstance of his life or character would skreen him from
+Almighty wrath; or that by repentance he might be pardoned through the
+mere mercy of his Heavenly Father.  In himself, therefore, he had no
+ground of hope whatsoever: he was as a debtor who had nothing to pay; as
+a sick man whose case was desperate: but he felt an assurance that Christ
+was able to pay his debt, and to cure his disease, and that in his own
+particular case, he would do it; and he himself did in heart, what the
+high priest did with his hands, transfer all his sins to the atonement.
+Thus he came to feel, not indeed presumptuously, but with confidence,
+that all his sins were laid upon the sacrifice; and he was able to
+contemplate the Saviour’s mercies instead of his own merited doom as a
+sinner.  The ground of this assurance in his mind was an acceptance of
+the simple testimony of God, that he would blot out his transgressions.
+He believed in this word of promise, and joy in believing was at once
+imparted to him.  The simplicity with which Jolin received the testimony
+of God in this instance characterized his religious experience during the
+whole of his remaining course.  The Scriptures were as a message of God
+to his soul.  He received them as feeling there could be no doubt but
+every word of them was true.  I often, said Mr. Hall, in the after part
+of his history, tried to persuade him that it was, naturally speaking, an
+incredible thing that God should have come in the flesh and atone for
+sin.  But he always said that he believed it, because it was so written
+in the book which is the truth.
+
+I have before noticed the indifference which Jolin appeared to feel to
+outward circumstances.  I have yet to observe another point connected
+with it, in this day’s visit, which was the brightness and almost
+cheerfulness of aspect that his manner and countenance gradually assumed.
+In the period before his condemnation, his downcast look and general air
+of wretchedness were not unsuited to a state of despair; but now he
+lifted up his head, and even his voice seemed to have changed its tone.
+This surprising change was observed by others.  Mr. Hammond, Jolin’s
+advocate, told M. Durell, as he himself has recorded it, that when he saw
+the prisoner on the twenty-third of September, he found him “in really a
+distracted state, torn by every conflicting passion, and all his
+faculties hurried by the unutterable anguish of remorse.  The dread of
+death was uppermost in his thoughts; and there was nothing to which he
+would not have submitted to avoid capital punishment: but when he saw him
+again on the evening of the twenty-sixth, he was astonished at the sudden
+change which had taken place in him: he was calm, placid, and resigned,
+and he had not one wish to live.  I then,” continues Mr. Durell,
+“mentioned to Mr. Hammond, that I had found him exactly in that state on
+my first visit, the twenty-sixth, which had preceded his own only by a
+few hours.”  He adds, “the opinion of an impartial and enlightened man,
+like Mr. Hammond, was certainly very important: but M. de Quetteville,
+the mayor of the town, and other laymen of the highest respectability,
+who had formerly known the prisoner, had been equally struck with that
+great and salutary change.  From a comparison of dates,” adds Mr. Durell,
+“I am inclined to believe, that his change must not only have been rapid,
+but that his heart must have been almost as instantaneously touched as
+that of the penitent malefactor in the gospel.”  Now how was this
+wonderful change to be accounted for?  We read in Acts xvi. 34, that when
+the keeper of the prison in Philippi had received St. Paul’s message,
+“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved;” that he
+“took” the apostles “_the same hour of the night_, and washed their
+stripes;” and was “baptized,” and rejoiced believing in God.  It was
+perhaps this very feeling of joy which Jolin now experienced; a joy which
+arose from a clear, full, well-grounded belief in the doctrine of
+justification by faith.  This doctrine, which gives peace with God, is,
+when rightly apprehended, attended with an experience of the love of God
+shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost, Rev. i. v., and this
+necessarily brings joy with it.  Thus, the man who has been taught to
+look to him that justifieth the ungodly, is able to walk in the light of
+God’s countenance, and is “filled with all joy and peace in believing.”
+
+On the 25th, Jolin narrated to his visitor the whole history of his
+melancholy life; his difficulties and discomforts, arising, not so much
+from others, as from his own sinful, wilful heart.  Like many other young
+persons, he had chosen the way of dissipation and folly, instead of that
+which many circumstances had led him to think was a happier and a safer
+course.  It is indeed true, that his parents were not in a state to check
+him in his proceedings; but he seems to have had at many intervals those
+convictions of conscience which were sufficient to have guarded him from
+the transgressions into which he fell, and even to have guided him to
+seek the paths of religion.  His wretched education, however, came in aid
+of his natural self-will, and soon confirmed him in those vices which led
+to his ruin.
+
+His state had been, as he himself described it, at times truly miserable;
+but drinking had quickly expelled every conviction of his own guilt, and
+he soon returned again to his mad career.  He observed to Mr. Durell,
+that since 1823, he had not seen one happy week.—There are two things to
+observe on these transient convictions of guilt in a state of
+unconversion.  Until the Spirit of God has enlightened the heart, sin
+does not by any means, in all cases, appear as it had appeared to Jolin,
+and as it invariably does to the renewed heart, a grievous burden.  The
+life of many wretched sinners is one unbroken course of
+self-satisfaction.  They are described in the seventy-third Psalm, as
+often passing from their cradles to their graves without a feeling of
+sorrow, or an apprehension of death.  The Bible, however, teaches, that
+such a state of unmixed prosperity is the most dangerous in which a man
+can be placed; that the sinner, when thus left alone of God, is lifted to
+that very slippery pinnacle from which he will fall to his eternal ruin.
+Ministers cannot, therefore, press upon their ungodly hearers the
+universal conviction of the misery attending upon sin as an evidence of
+their unconverted state, because sin does not in this life uniformly
+bring along with it any such conviction.  Their state of self-complacency
+is, indeed, a state which comes as short of the real spiritual happiness
+of the true Christian, as darkness does of light; but it often affords a
+false peace, which perhaps does not leave the sinner till his punishment
+begins, and the door of hope is shut against him for ever.  Another
+observation arising from Jolin’s feeling of wretchedness in his former
+state, is, that the pain sometimes connected either with the practice of
+sin, or a view of its consequences, will not, unassisted by the Spirit of
+God, produce the real repentance which the Gospel requires.  It is true,
+the compunctions of conscience, like the afflictions of life, are means
+often used to prepare the sinner for the doctrines of the Gospel.  Yet,
+in how many cases do we find men wounded, but not contrite; stunned, but
+not really affected by the deepest distresses of life.  Thus we learn,
+that it is not any mere dispensation of Providence which necessarily
+brings men to that knowledge and faith which are needful for salvation.
+It is true, that God does bless the endeavours of the willing mind
+whenever he sees them; but the mind is not necessarily made willing
+because it suffers, any more than a child is necessarily made more
+compliant by the punishment which is inflicted.  Some substances harden
+whilst others melt under the fire.  Thus some souls are only confirmed in
+sin by the events which are instrumental in recovering others from it.
+For this he must be quickened by the power of God, he must have an
+entirely different sense imparted to him from the mere feeling of the
+misery of an evil course, or the afflictions of life; he must be
+convinced of his own desperate state in the sight of God, and of the need
+of that sacrifice which the Saviour has wrought out, before that good
+work is really begun, which, it is promised, shall be carried on till the
+day of Jesus Christ.  So far, then, from the common notion, that the
+sufferings of our life will atone for its offences, those sufferings have
+no connexion whatever with our state hereafter, except as they may have
+been a means of bringing us to seek that sacrifice by whom alone any of
+our sins can be pardoned.
+
+But to return to Jolin’s history.  In the visit of the 25th, he was again
+led to a consideration of the only sacrifice for man’s transgression,
+particularly as it is exhibited in the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah.  In
+this portion of Scripture he learnt more exactly the cause for which
+Jesus Christ came on the earth, and became a man of sorrows, and
+acquainted with grief:—“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
+sorrows.”  “He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
+iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his
+stripes we are healed.  All we like sheep have gone astray: we have
+turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the
+iniquity of us all.”  Other passages of Scripture, connected with this
+subject, and pointing out the love of God as the first cause of man’s
+salvation, were also explained to him, as, Rom. v. 8, “While we were yet
+sinners, Christ died for us.”  And in connexion with this, Ephes. ii. 4,
+5, “God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us
+even when we were dead in sin, hath quickened us together with Christ.”
+And, Rom. viii. 1, “There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ
+Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”  The being in
+Christ Jesus, and the nature of faith, by which alone he could apply the
+merits and sufferings of the Saviour, were now, as they were continually,
+dwelt upon.
+
+The faith of the Gospel, he was more particularly taught, was such a
+reception of the truths of Scripture, and more especially of the
+engagement of God to pardon every sinner who came to him in Christ Jesus,
+as led not only to an entire dependence upon Christ, but to a complete
+submission to his will, and a consequent change in our own nature.  It
+was not merely a reception of the doctrine of faith, which was to be
+regarded as faith in the soul, but the creation in the heart of a new and
+animated feeling of trust in the Redeemer.  The influence of faith in the
+soul was like that of food to the body; it imparts a new feeling and
+character; gives new nourishment and vigour, and works by love, not only
+to the Saviour himself, but to all around us.  Faith, therefore, to be a
+living principle, must be felt by ourselves, and must be seen by others:
+and of both these points the faith of this young man gave ample proof.
+It gave confidence to his own mind, and even gladdened his heart; it made
+the Bible a new book to him; it cheered the solitude of his prison; it
+directed him to be mindful of every practical duty; it gave a new
+direction to all his hopes and fears, and enabled him to go onwards in a
+spirit of filial dependence to meet the last conflict.  It was at this
+time, I think, that he made a confession, which served to explain his
+previous state of mind, and to show how remarkably his attention was
+fixed on one point.  “How extraordinary, sir,” said he, “it is, that for
+these last two days I have been able to give my mind only to _one_
+subject; the thought of my crime and of my death have been taken from me,
+and I have scarcely been able to give my attention to either.”  The one
+subject which occupied all his attention, and shut out every other, was
+the love of his Saviour, who had given himself for his sins.  This, as he
+said, “filled his heart.”  His state of mind served to show the absorbing
+nature of this Divine principle when it is fully implanted in the soul.
+When the mind has suddenly gained a view of its former state of
+alienation, and has been brought nigh again to God, it is impossible that
+the sense of this vast change should not swallow up every other feeling.
+It is difficult at all times to think much of God, and to think of any
+thing else; but how much more, when the first conviction of the Divine
+presence overwhelms the soul.  And, as David, in the fifty-first Psalm,
+appears to have comparatively lost sight of his sin against his country,
+the family of Uriah, and of all the consequences of it, in the depth of
+the feeling which he had of his sin against God; so the love of Christ
+took possession of Jolin’s mind; and in its length, and breadth, and
+depth, and height, so filled his thoughts, and so absorbed his soul, that
+every other subject sank into nothing.
+
+It will be manifest, that, in the explanation of all these subjects,
+there was a constant repetition of points before explained, and reference
+to many texts which are not noticed.  Jolin did not talk much; and indeed
+it was chiefly in answer to a question, that he made any observation at
+all.  When a passage of Scripture was read to him, he would often take
+the Bible and read it over slowly to himself, then observe carefully
+whether a paper to mark it was so placed, that he might find the place
+again, and return the book with some slight expression of his feelings.
+In this way did he seem to lay up portions of the Divine word, upon which
+he might reflect in his solitary hours.  His manner was always calm and
+self-possessed; and his answers to questions were such as showed that he
+clearly understood the grounds upon which the answer was to be made.  He
+was never beside the mark in a reply.  But it was quite evident that all
+the lessons which were taught him, and which had the warrant of
+scriptural authority, sank into his heart, and that he found in them that
+which corresponded with his own experience.
+
+The next day, the 26th, he was visited by Mr. Dallas, one of the
+chaplains of the Bishop of Winchester, and by Mr. Durell, the rector of
+St. Saviour’s parish.  These two clergymen have each given public and
+repeated testimony to the state of mind in which they found Jolin.  The
+visit of Mr. Dallas was chiefly occupied in an endeavour to search out
+the reality of the foundation upon which the hope of the penitent rested,
+and he viewed it as most satisfactory.  Mr. Durell visited Jolin at the
+request of the Dean of Jersey, in whose parish the prison is situated.
+Mr. Durell says in his little work, “I came to perform a difficult and
+unpleasant duty, which, indeed, I could not refuse.  I mention this
+indifference,” he adds, “to show, that when I first repaired to this poor
+man’s dungeon, there must have been something very powerful to have
+affected me to such a degree.”  He at first brought Dodd’s Prison
+Thoughts with him to read to Jolin; but, on the suggestion of a friend,
+he changed this book for the Bible.  Mr. Durell visited Jolin many times:
+and he has published an account of each visit.  His remarks are candid,
+kind, and very clear as to his belief of the real change of Jolin’s
+character.  The facts which he narrates are some of them in the highest
+degree interesting.  “I have sympathised,” he says, “in Jolin’s cell, in
+all the horrors of his situation.  I have shuddered at his nefarious
+parricide; I have rejoiced in his unfeigned repentance; and I have been
+soothed by his delightful anticipations of a blessed immortality.”  He
+adds, on one occasion, “I never saw a man more free from enthusiasm.  All
+his religion centred in the atonement of Christ.”  On another, “I never
+heard him complain of the evidence against him, nor of his sentence;
+never did an expression of murmur or of invective escape from him.”  He
+says again, “This visit lasted three hours; than which none ever made a
+deeper impression on me, or will perhaps be more conducive to my own
+spiritual improvement.”  He adds again, “It may, perhaps, be supposed,
+that it was the dread of death which had excited his religious fervour;
+on the contrary, those apprehensions ceased from the moment that holy
+principle originated in his heart: neither was it that instinctive fear
+of dying that drove him into religious inquiries and self-examination.
+That fear may, indeed, have caused a wicked man to be sorry for his sin;
+but the growth in knowledge, in grace, and in so many gifts of the
+Spirit, was so extraordinary and so unprecedented, that I cannot account
+for it as having been the result of natural causes operating on an ardent
+and distracted mind.  I am not only impartial, but am conscious that I am
+as free from superstition and enthusiasm as any man; yet I feel inwardly
+convinced, that Jolin’s conversation had something in it more than human;
+and that Providence assisted him with an imperceptible, though equally
+miraculous, working of the Holy Spirit; to the end that his edifying
+repentance might operate like a distinguished example to open the bosom
+of many an infidel to an examination of the sacred truths of
+Christianity, and to persuade the thoughtless and profligate, that,
+unless they abandon their dangerous course, they will be doomed to
+certain destruction.”
+
+But it may be interesting to lay before your readers the last
+communication of this kind friend, when Jolin was about to be executed.
+It was in a letter to one of the ministers then with him in the prison.
+
+                    St. Saviour’s, Oct. 3, 1829, 9 o’clock in the morning.
+
+    “Sir,—The deep, the Christian interest, which I feel for our
+    departing brother, induces me to write you a short note.  Tell him
+    that I pray that the strength which is imparted from on high may not
+    fail him in his last hour, and that the sufferings of the Saviour may
+    inspire him with religious courage to bear his sufferings.  Tell him
+    also, that since we are not to meet again on earth, he departs with
+    my blessing and my prayers; and that, I trust, we shall meet again
+    where every tear shall be dried from every eye.  The sixteenth
+    chapter of St. John is most particularly adapted to his awful
+    situation.  The thirty-third verse is a glorious precept and example
+    for him: ‘These things have I spoken to you, that in me ye might have
+    peace.  In the world ye shall have tribulation: but, be of good
+    cheer, I have overcome the world.’
+
+                                                  “I am, sir, yours truly,
+                                                              “E. DURELL.”
+
+On the last Sunday of his life, Jolin had many visitors.  His mind seemed
+gradually to ripen for eternity.  He gained every day clearer views of
+his sinful nature, of the power of Divine grace, of the nature of faith,
+of the immensity of the love of Christ, and of the offer of a free
+salvation made to himself.  He could now trace very distinctly, in the
+various events of his life, the manifestations of the great mercy of God
+in his favour.  The returning prodigal (Luke xv.) he felt more and more
+to represent himself and his own case.  He saw his heavenly Father
+waiting to be gracious to him.  He had scarcely time to offer up his
+supplications, when he found, that before he called, God had answered,
+and while he was yet speaking, He had heard.  There was one circumstance
+connected with the visit of this day which is, in itself, striking.  The
+last trial was to take place on the morrow.  He had, under the direction
+of his legal adviser, prepared a paper, which was to be read to the jury.
+There was still, therefore, a possibility of his escape from the
+punishment of death.  This latter circumstance became a subject of
+conversation, and an earnest hope was expressed on the part of his
+visitor, that, if he was set at liberty, he would be supported by Divine
+grace, and that he would be enabled to live to the glory of God.  His
+answer to this observation clearly showed how well he understood the
+power of the grace of God, and how entirely his heart was stayed upon
+that as his only support in every emergency of his life, whether he were
+to escape from prison, or be led to the scaffold.  He observed, “Sir, the
+man that is fit to _die_, is fit to _live_.  I have known what it is to
+have a heart as hard as a diamond; but I now feel I have a heart of
+flesh.”  His persuasion was thus very clearly expressed, that the same
+power which had changed his heart from stone to flesh, could and would
+keep him on his way; and that, depending upon Divine grace, he need not
+fear whether life or death were presented to him.  In this calm and
+confiding posture of mind, he seemed continually to rest.  All his hope
+and trust were grounded on his Saviour.  He had come to the full
+experience of the psalmist—“It is good for me to draw near to God.”
+
+A hymn of Cowper’s, which had been given to him, seemed very much to have
+arrested his attention this day.  It is on the subject of the fountain
+opened for sin, and for uncleanness. (Zech. xiii. 1.)
+
+    “There is a fountain filled with blood,
+       Drawn from Immanuel’s veins;
+    And sinners plunged beneath that flood
+       Lose all their guilty stains.
+
+    The dying thief rejoiced to see
+       That fountain in his day;
+    And there have I, though vile as he,
+       Wash’d all my sins away.
+
+    E’er since, by faith, I saw the stream
+       Thy flowing wounds supply,
+    Redeeming love has been my theme,
+       And shall be till I die.
+
+    Then, in a nobler, sweeter song,
+       I’ll sing thy power to save,
+    When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
+       Lies silent in the grave.
+
+    Lord, I believe thou hast prepared
+       (Unworthy though I be)
+    For me a blood-bought free reward,
+       A golden harp for me.
+
+    ’Tis strung and tuned for endless years,
+       And formed by power divine,
+    To sound in God the Father’s ears,
+       No other name but thine.”
+
+This hymn he was very fond of, and he repeated it on his way to the
+scaffold.  It had been an object to store the mind of Jolin with subjects
+which might, by the Divine blessing, be sources of encouragement and of
+comfort to him when left alone with his Bible, or in the silent hours of
+the night.  The following points, in addition to those already
+enumerated, had been dwelt upon; and now, as the opportunities for
+visiting his prison by the individual who proposed them, had drawn to a
+close, some of them were at this time again earnestly pressed upon his
+attention.  These were, the “tender mercy” of God, (Luke i. 78,) by which
+alone the Day-spring from on high visits the soul, and by which it is
+brought out of its state of natural darkness; the view of Christ touched
+with the feeling of our infirmities, (Heb. iv. 15, 16,) and encouraging
+us to go with boldness to the Throne of grace; the invitation to ask with
+importunity for the Holy Spirit (Luke xi. 1–11); the intercession of
+Jesus for his people (Rom. viii. 34); the promise, that God who had not
+spared his own Son would with him freely give us all things (Rom. viii.
+32); the remedy against all trouble to be found in faith in the Lord
+Jesus Christ (John xiv. 1); the parting address and prayer of Christ
+(John xiv. xv. xvi. xvii.); and the engagement that nothing shall
+separate the believer from the love of Christ (Rom. viii. 35–39).  To
+this was added, as much examination as to the working of these doctrines
+on his heart, the degree in which they were felt, and their practical
+bearing, as the time and circumstances would admit.  All these subjects
+Jolin appeared to understand and to receive; and if he could not
+enumerate them as distinct articles of his religious creed, yet he seemed
+fully to comprehend and to receive them as the testimony of God.
+
+Monday, the 28th, was the day fixed for his second trial; and here he
+exhibited the character of a real Christian.  His defence he had written
+before, and it was as follows:—“Gentlemen, whatever may be my fate, I
+shall not die without having to reproach myself for not having quitted my
+father’s house.  By so doing, I should have avoided being the victim in
+different unhappy affairs that often took place between my father and
+mother, in which I was generally the object upon which the weight of
+their discontent fell.  I was often obliged to submit to being beaten
+most severely, and to hear language unworthy of being uttered by either
+father or mother.  Now, left to myself in the solitude of a dungeon, I
+reflect on times gone by, remembering that I was the only child,
+abandoned to the most deplorable fate.  Yet I ought to have been wiser,
+and not followed the example of my nearer relations, the source of my
+misfortune.  But now that respectable ministers of the Gospel have taken
+the trouble to visit me, and point out my duty towards God and towards
+man, I rest contented.  I pray to God to pardon the horrible, but never
+premeditated crime of which I am guilty.  If I ever had an intention of
+killing my poor father, I had a very favourable opportunity of doing so,
+when he was stretched upon a bed of sickness, unable to help himself.  I
+was then the only person who took care of him, and administered to his
+wants, as there was no other person besides myself in the house.  I beg
+pardon of all those whom I may have willingly or unwillingly offended.
+Gentlemen, after this declaration, I submit myself entirely to your
+wisdom.  It is you who are going to decide my fate.  I am ready to meet
+it, and I will submit to your judgment without a murmur.—PH. G. JOLIN.”
+
+This paper is a translation from the French, in which language it was
+originally written.  Whether it is accurately translated, or whether it
+was written by Jolin himself, or by his advocate, it is impossible to
+judge.  The passage in it which relates to his parents, if his own, is
+liable to objection.  The faults of a parent, especially faults so
+awfully punished, ought not to have made a part of his defence.  If the
+language is that of his advocate, it is only the language of legal
+justification, and the facts are both true and of much weight for the
+extenuation of his crime.
+
+It is said, that during his trial, his calmness was remarkable.  His lips
+apparently were employed in prayer, and this he afterwards confessed was
+the case.  He prayed for himself, that he might be strengthened to go
+through his trial, and also for his judges and his jury.  There was no
+effrontery in his look; but, on the contrary, the appearance of deep
+humiliation.  For four hours, during which time his trial lasted, he
+never lifted his eyes from the ground.  On his return from the trial, he
+had to encounter the indignation of the populace against his crime.  On
+the former occasion, a woman had cried, “Ah, le scelerat!” which had a
+good deal affected him.  This time he addressed the people from the
+prison gates, and when they observed that he was half dead from fatigue,
+he said, amongst other things, “I have a strength within me ye know not.
+This supports me.  Weep not for me, weep for yourselves.”
+
+During the following days of his life, he received continual visits from
+a variety of persons.  On the 28th, the Rev. P. Filluel; on the 29th,
+from both the chaplains of the Bishop of Winchester; Mr. Dallas was
+indeed as assiduous in his attendance at the gaol, as his many other
+duties at that time would permit; and all these gentlemen expressed the
+strongest conviction of the reality of Jolin’s conversion.  Many
+ministers, and others beside, very kindly came, desiring to impart to him
+some spiritual gift.  He received all gladly; but more especially those
+whose conversation led him to believe that they came to him in the
+fulness of Christian love.  His discernment on this point was a striking
+evidence of the clear views of doctrine which he had attained.  He
+perceived and felt the inadequacy of those religious systems which were
+not connected with deep and experimental views of personal corruption;
+and with exclusive dependence for salvation upon the atonement of Jesus
+Christ.  With a sense of gratitude for the instruments made use of in
+awakening his mind, Jolin appeared remarkably independent of any outward
+help.  He was by no means like a man who hung upon another’s teaching,
+but upon that of God.  It was on this account that he was, perhaps, able
+to bear without injury the multifarious instruction which he received.
+His own language was most satisfactory; he always spoke of the salvation
+procured for him as a free and unmerited gift of God; and dwelt upon the
+peculiar manifestation of God’s grace to himself, inasmuch as he had
+twice saved him from shipwreck when he was in an entirely unprepared
+state to meet death, and now he had been brought to that prison that he
+might learn the way of salvation.  His expressions of the sense of his
+own unworthiness were clear and strong.  He told one of his friends that
+he had nothing to offer to God, but his heart; that all his repentance,
+all his resolutions, all his short conflict with the carnal heart, could
+never expiate his sin.  On another occasion he said, that he was not
+worthy to pick up the crumbs under his Master’s table; and on another,
+that Christ was his only hope; that He had paid his ransom, and that He
+would receive him into glory.  With another class of visitors, those of
+his family and friends, he was equally decided in declaring what great
+things God had done for his soul, and what necessity there was that they
+should turn and repent if they would be saved.  Indeed, a discourse of
+this kind had made some of them think him insane.  He had told his
+relations who had come to him, that he was formerly unclean and unholy;
+that they were so at that moment.  He therefore entreated them to apply
+to _Him_ who had cast out the unclean devils into the swine, to cleanse
+their souls.  On all occasions, when he could, he manifested the same
+desire to instruct others, and lead them to that refuge which he had
+found so precious to his own soul.
+
+On Thursday, October 1, Mr. Durell records a very interesting visit which
+he paid the prisoner: interesting, as it showed the state of mind in
+which he found him.  “As we approached the passage,” says Mr. Durell, “we
+could hear the loud ejaculations of the prisoner’s prayers.”  The gaoler
+observed, that he always found him thus employed when he was left alone
+in the cell.  Mr. Durell read to him the account of our Saviour’s death,
+from Matthew xxvii., and concluded with a prayer, at the end of which
+Jolin was much affected.  He exhibited, on this occasion, the deepest
+sense of gratitude to all about him; and Mr. Hammond, his advocate, who
+was also present, bore witness to the calmness and the change of Jolin’s
+state of mind.  To the latter gentleman, he, on that occasion, expressed
+his sense of the great services rendered to him on his trial.  He sat up
+on his bed, and clasping both his hands together, said most earnestly,
+“Mr. Hammond, I thank you over and over again for the pains you have
+taken for me.  I regret that I have nothing to give to reward you as you
+deserve.”  This same sense of gratitude led him constantly to express his
+thanks to his gaoler, whose kindness and attention, those who were so
+often going out and in the prison can fully testify.  But it was not on
+this occasion alone, for the evidence afforded to his state of mind was
+very remarkable.  The acting lieutenant-governor, the dean, the mayor, a
+leading medical man who came to inquire into his insanity, clergymen,
+dissenting ministers, his advocate, his relations, his attendants, all
+appear to have come away from the prison with a common conviction, that
+the power of God had been at work in producing the wonderful change which
+they witnessed.
+
+On the day previous to his execution, the event to which I have referred
+with regard to his relations occurred.  They, not understanding the
+nature of the change which had taken place in him, and, judging from
+reports of blows which he had received, and other circumstances,
+endeavoured to establish the plea of insanity; and they brought a very
+eminent medical practitioner to examine into his state.  But this
+interference was followed by the best consequences; for, whilst on the
+one hand it was clearly ascertained that Jolin was in no state of
+derangement, or delusion, or enthusiastic fervour; on the other, the
+clearest and most satisfactory evidence was given of his real state of
+mind.  After this, the Dean of Jersey kindly attended to administer the
+sacrament to him.  Before he received the holy communion, he underwent an
+examination; and to the dean, and three other clergymen, he gave, in
+answer to their questions, a reason of the hope that was in him.  He
+explained with such clearness the object and the nature of his faith,
+testified so deep a sense of his own unworthiness, and showed so good a
+feeling towards all his fellow-creatures, that they had not, any of them,
+a doubt of his fitness to partake of the feast prepared for the penitent
+sinner.  This examination, which was peculiarly solemn and affecting to
+Jolin, looking, as most of the people of that island do, with deep
+veneration on the high and sacred office of the dean, was remarkably
+calculated to detect any thing which might be suspicious in his views, or
+in his real state.  Throughout this day, Mr. Hall reports, that Jolin was
+longing to depart, and to be with Christ, saying, “The hours pass
+slowly.”  It was remarked that he must wait God’s time, who had yet work
+for him to do in his vineyard.  And most faithfully was every hour
+devoted to the duties of his immediate calling.  He warned, rebuked,
+exhorted, with all long-suffering and patience.  He said he thought it
+would be better for him to die on the scaffold, than quietly in his cell,
+as he might thereby glorify God by his patience, and be an example to all
+of the fatal consequences of indulgence in sin.
+
+Mr. Durell has given an account of his last visit to Jolin on the evening
+of this day.  He chose the same subject to read to him as on the day
+before, but from another Evangelist.  It was Luke xxiii., the account of
+our Saviour’s crucifixion.  During the reading, Jolin’s sensibility was
+greatly excited, and his half-broken sobs were heard.  Mr. Durell,
+thinking it proper to check this state of mind, pointed out the
+sufferings of Christ as a matter of holy joy, and threatened to lay down
+the book, and read no more, if Jolin continued to feel so much.  Mr.
+Durell, wishing to avoid any thing which might discompose Jolin,
+carefully omitted making any comment on the most affecting part of our
+Saviour’s sufferings.  He, on the other hand, sought to comfort him by an
+application of the promise, that “they who sow in tears, shall reap in
+joy;” and by the prospect of paradise held out to the penitent thief.  He
+adds, in conclusion, “In the course of my profession, I have seen many
+individuals on the brink of the grave; but never before did I witness
+such coolness and such self-command—a scene so holy, so edifying, so
+sublime.  Had he been in the full bloom of human prosperity, and with the
+prospect of adding half a century longer to his existence, he could not
+have been more collected.  I was myself almost falling into a delusion
+contrary to the evidence of my own senses.  I could not believe that one
+so near his end could retain so much courage, or such contempt of
+ignominy and death.  I could not believe that one so gentle, and now so
+well instructed in religious duties, could have been ever capable of
+committing a crime for which he deserved to die—that he could have been a
+murderer.”
+
+On the night previous to his execution, the kind relation who had first
+visited him in the prison, and brought him the first message of
+salvation, in bringing him the New Testament, and Mr. Gallachin, an
+excellent minister of the church, sat up with him.  They endeavoured to
+sing a hymn, and, feeling the imperfection of the service, he said,
+“To-morrow I shall join in very different singing from this.”  At
+half-past one in the morning, he fell into a kind of dozing stupor for an
+hour, but did not sleep.  During that time he was heard repeating the
+fifty-first Psalm, and also repeatedly exclaiming, “Glory to the Lamb!
+glory to our Lord Jesus Christ!” and when he awoke, he said that he had
+seen glorious things in a dream.  He also said, between sleeping and
+waking, as it appeared, “There is now, therefore, no condemnation for
+them that are in Christ Jesus.”  At waking he requested that a hymn might
+be sung.  The next morning Mr. Hall went to him at half-past six o’clock.
+When he entered his cell, Jolin said, “Oh, Mr. Hall, I am so glad to see
+you; I am so happy.  I have slept four hours, and the rest of the night
+we have spent in such delightful conversation.  I feel so strong, but I
+will wait patiently the Lord’s time.”  The day before, I have observed,
+he thought the hours passed slowly, he was so anxious to depart and to be
+with Christ.  Mr. Hall took occasion to warn him, that he had still a
+work to do.  He must not only glorify his Saviour by his conduct, and by
+his patient resignation, but he must again speak a word of warning to
+those about him.  And he assured him that he might be able to do more for
+the praise and honour of his Master in his death upon the scaffold, by
+bearing testimony to his own exceeding wickedness, and to the
+unsearchable mercy and love of Christ, than if he had died in a more
+private manner.  To this he assented, and took the resolution of doing
+all in his power.  “Great, indeed,” says Mr. Hall, “were the grace and
+support which he enjoyed.  He felt sick at breakfast time, and could not
+eat; but, to oblige me, he said he would try.  About nine o’clock his
+irons were taken off; and I could not help thinking of this as symbolical
+of that liberty which soon, when passed beyond this life, he would enjoy
+for ever in the presence of his Saviour.  Jolin immediately proposed to
+me to kneel down and thank God for what he had done for him; saying, ‘I
+have always before prayed in bed; now I can go on my knees in the proper
+posture for a sinner.’  Oh, at this time, how deep were his confessions
+of sin, committed both in thought, word, and deed; his acknowledgment of
+mercy through Jesus Christ; his expressions of dependence upon Him for
+grace, to keep him in his fiery trial, and to open for him the kingdom of
+heaven!  When he drank his milk, he said, ‘Oh! God, I thank thee that
+thou hast been so merciful and good to me, who have been so great a
+sinner!’  His hand was never cold, and his pulse was always regular to
+the end.  I never witnessed one to whom the Lord was pleased to give a
+stronger faith, which was proved by his conduct to the last.  He sat
+calmly speaking and listening till about half-past twelve; when he left
+the prison, leaning on me and Mr. Gallachin.  An immense concourse of
+people presented itself at the prison gates, and their rush and noise
+were greater than we expected.  The newspaper account says—‘He was calm
+and collected, walked with steadiness, and evinced throughout the most
+decorous firmness.  We could not perceive that he trembled.  His mind
+seemed quite absorbed in religious exercises; and, from all we can learn,
+there was good and satisfactory evidence that he was a true penitent, and
+relied on the Divine mercy.’”
+
+As he was leaving the gaol he was heard to repeat the fourth verse of the
+twenty-third Psalm, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow
+of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me, thy rod and thy
+staff they comfort me.”  Mr. Hall continues: “The noise of the people
+prevented my being heard by Jolin, who walked as firmly as myself: I
+therefore opened my hymn-book, and pointed out to him the sufficiency of
+the Redeemer, in one of those hymns which I had previously chosen for his
+perusal.  The hymn chosen was one beginning—
+
+    ‘He lives, the great Redeemer lives!
+    What joy the blest assurance gives!
+    And now, before his Father, God,
+    Pleads the full merit of his blood.
+
+    In every dark, distressful hour,
+    When sin and Satan join their power,
+    Let this dear hope repel the dart,
+    That Jesus bears us on his heart.’
+
+“He told me, that he did not mind the people, that they were poor worms;
+that he would endeavour to warn them from the scaffold, for they were
+standing on the brink of the pit.  We mounted the steepest part of the
+gallows hill.  He said, his Saviour had toiled up Calvary with a cross,
+which he ought to be thankful that he had not to bear; and that Jesus
+Christ had done this for _his_ sake, whereas, he was receiving the due
+reward of his transgression.  This reflection seemed to give new wings to
+his exertions in pressing up the rock.  I think that a worse place of
+ascent could not have been chosen.  When we arrived at the summit, the
+Greffier read his sentence aloud, and Mr. Gallachin prayed most fervently
+with him in French.  After the prayer, he ascended the platform with Mr.
+Gallachin and myself, and addressed the people in French, as you will see
+by the account in the newspaper.  But the account is deficient in one
+most essential point.  He urged the people by the _love_ of _Christ_,
+whom he had crucified, and whom they were crucifying by their sins.”  The
+substance of his warning was on the subject of intemperance,
+Sabbath-breaking, the neglect of God and of religion; and it was
+addressed principally to parents and to the young.  These warnings he
+twice delivered; once before, and once after the rope was fastened round
+his neck.  “Although I do not accurately remember,” Mr. Hall continues,
+“the words of any of his speeches, I can safely say, that he expressed
+his conviction that the work which had taken place in his heart had been
+effected by no power or will of his own, but by a sovereign act of Divine
+grace.  Jolin then read aloud some verses from the Testament, which
+sufficiently indicate the view which he took both of the nature of his
+change, and of the source from whence it sprang.  They are taken from 1
+Pet. i. 3–5: ‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
+which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
+lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an
+inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,
+reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through
+faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.’  To these
+verses he was particularly partial.  He then spoke to me, and told me
+that he had full confidence in the sufficiency of the blood of Christ to
+blot out all his sins; and that He who had loved him so much as to shed
+his blood for him, and had kept him to that hour stedfast and immoveable,
+would receive him into glory.  When the cap was drawn over his face, I
+told him not to dread the momentary pain, for soon he would be in the
+presence of his Saviour.  He pressed my hand, and said he was not afraid;
+for he knew that He would take him unto himself.  I told him that I would
+pray that his sufferings might be short, and went down.”  Mr. Gallachin
+then read a part of the Burial Service, until the fatal moment.  His
+sufferings appeared not to be great, and were of brief duration.  “Whilst
+I was in prayer,” Mr. Hall adds, “the drop fell, and our poor brother I
+knew had entered into the presence of his Redeemer.  The women around me
+screamed out, ‘The Lord have mercy upon his poor soul!’  I could not but
+pray that their souls might find the same mercy.  He died without a
+struggle.  I never saw him after I pressed his hand when alive, as I
+ascended the hill through the crowd, and was spared seeing his mortal
+remains.”
+
+Thus ended the course of a young man, whose history is a solemn memorial,
+not only of the awful effects of a bad education, and of the wretchedness
+of sin, but also of the wonderful compassion of God.  Much of what has
+been narrated may appear almost incredible to some readers; and many of
+those, especially, who are justly suspicions of death-bed repentances,
+may be led to doubt how far the work of this young man’s conversion was
+complete, and whether, if he had been permitted to live, he would have
+lived as he has died.  If, however, he was really converted in heart to
+God, the observation which he himself made must be applied to his own
+case: “The man that is fit to die is fit to live.”  The same grace which
+brought him into the fold of Christ would have kept him in all his way;
+so that the enemy of his soul should not have overpowered him.  And there
+is, as before mentioned, the most remarkable concurrence of testimony as
+to Jolin’s state at the time of his death.  Not only Mr. Hall, Mr.
+Gallachin, and many others, bear witness to the facts; but the public
+voice has acknowledged the wonderful change which took place in him.  One
+person, _not_ a believer in revelation, but who stood by Jolin on the
+gallows hill, and witnessed his conduct, came to a minister, and
+acknowledged, that “there must be something in religion to support a man
+in such a manner; and that he had therefore determined to attend a place
+of worship, and to bring up his children in the fear of God.”  Mr. Hall
+says, “I have never had a doubt on my mind as to the reality of the
+change.  His conduct in the court; his complete deadness to the things of
+time and sense, and this even when his friends seemed so anxious to save
+him from an ignominious death, were so many pleasing testimonies that he
+was really risen with Christ, and that his affections were set upon
+things above.  God did indeed work mightily in him: though last, he was
+one of the first.  He seemed so convinced of sin, and to have such simple
+dependence upon the truth and firm foundation of Christ’s promises, and
+he showed so abundantly that these feelings were not merely talked into
+his head, that I always returned delighted with my visit to him.  I used
+to pray instantly with him that he might not be deceiving himself, nor be
+deceived by Satan, or any of us; and I can say, as far as I was capable
+of judging, that his was a real work of Divine grace.”  The testimony of
+the editor of the Jersey newspaper, also, while it is beyond all
+suspicion of enthusiasm, and does not even exhibit the proof of a
+tolerably distinct view of the real foundation on which Jolin stood, is a
+most satisfactory testimony of the reality of this change.  He says, “We
+are not amongst those who would hastily give credence to the genuineness
+of conversion in the cases of great criminals, or who approve of
+religious ecstasies in the short interval between the commission of
+dreadful enormities, and the violent death awarded by law; we do not
+think it desirable that, while so many good men, after a long life of
+exemplary piety, approach their last hour with solemn apprehensions, such
+as have lived in a course of profligate vice should boast of triumphant
+feelings and peculiar joy on their way to the scaffold, where they are to
+be suddenly compelled into the presence of their Creator and Divine
+Judge;—but, in the instance before us, we have much satisfaction in
+believing that a real change of heart had taken place, before a change of
+worlds was experienced.  In his last days, Jolin evinced much solidity of
+mind on the subject most important to him: his conduct was marked by the
+most becoming propriety; and if he expressed a confident hope of
+acceptance before God, it was accompanied with humility, and, as far as
+man can judge, with sincere sorrow for his offences.”  The rapid
+attainment of Divine knowledge, the simple belief of the truths of the
+Bible, the consistent walk in that which he believed to be the will of
+God, are fruits which can be ascribed only to the grace and Spirit of
+God.  Where the Lord of all power and might is pleased to exercise his
+sovereignty, who shall say that the work of many years may not be
+produced in a few weeks; or, as in the case of the thief upon the cross,
+in a much shorter time?  The case of the thief on the cross is one in
+which the probabilities, before-hand, of repentance, were not so great;
+and the evidences of his real conversion are scarcely more complete,
+except the incidental circumstance of the testimony of our Lord.  Both of
+these criminals felt sorrow for their sins, confessed them to men,
+acknowledged them to God, and owned the justice of their condemnation;
+both testified the sincerity of their faith: but, if the thief did this
+under circumstances more trying to his sincerity than those of Jolin, it
+is also to be remembered, that he saw the Lord of life; and that to Jolin
+alone, therefore, the language applied, “Blessed are they that have not
+seen, and yet have believed.”  I know of no mark of true conversion which
+was absent from the case of Jolin.  His faith was clear and strong.  It
+lifted him above the world, and, wrought by love, it gave him courage,
+and zeal, and love.  He went forward in implicit dependence upon Divine
+grace, and pursued, as was permitted him after his change, a holy,
+humble, consistent course; and, with the cap upon his head, and the rope
+round his neck, he could say with calmness, that “he was not afraid, for
+he knew that his Saviour would take him to himself.”
+
+But it may still be said, How do we know that Jolin was sincere in all
+that he said, or that he was not under delusion in what he felt?  To this
+question the reply has been, I think, already offered in these pages—by
+pointing to the workings of his mind, and the consistency of his conduct.
+And here we must leave the case till the last great day.
+
+In the meanwhile, let us learn from this history, some of the lessons
+which it is calculated to teach.
+
+The first of these is, the _misery and danger of a state of sin_.  St.
+Paul, in describing the consequences of a state of sin, says, in an
+appeal to the Roman converts, (vi. 21,) “What part had ye then in those
+things whereof ye are now ashamed; for the end of those things is death.”
+That is, sin yields no real _fruit_; it produces shame; and the end of it
+will be _death_.  Every Christian feels the truth of this statement, as
+respects himself; and it is the case with all other men, although they
+know it not.  What, for instance, is the usual fruit of drunkenness?
+disease, quarrelling, and loss of one kind or another.  The drunkard is
+usually a blasphemer, hard-hearted, and cruel, as he proves himself to
+his wife and children, starving or ill-treating them to gratify his own
+lust.  His habits of drunkenness make him a bad child, a bad neighbour, a
+disgrace in himself, and a plague to others.  So it is more or less with
+the followers of every sin.  Sin, then, brings no real fruit, and the end
+of it will be eternal death; for it is written, “The wicked shall be
+turned into hell, and all the people that forget God.”  “As surely,
+therefore, as a man sows, so shall he also reap; he that soweth to the
+flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption.”  How awful is the history of
+Jolin’s father!  His life how disgraceful, his death how dreadful!  Would
+the sinner who reads this be content to come to such an end?  But to
+this, in his present state, he is every moment liable.  Let the sinner
+remember, that he who called this poor wretch to judgment at a moment’s
+warning, may say to himself, “This night thy soul is required of thee.”
+The probability of thus dying is commonly passed over; and it is the hope
+of a sinner that he shall still live to repent, as Jolin did.  Yet how
+great are the chances against this!  Many a man has been deluded by such
+a hope, and perished in his transgression.  He has looked to some case
+like this, or like that of the thief on the cross, and delayed his
+repentance, till, in an hour when he has not looked for it, he has been
+“driven away in his wickedness.”  But in this, as it is said by an old
+writer, “The perverseness of our nature may be seen, in that this one
+case, that of the penitent thief, serveth us to looseness of life, in
+hope of the like: whereas, we might better reason, that is _but_ one, and
+that extraordinary; and besides this one, there is not one more in all
+the Bible; and that for this one that sped, a thousand thousands have
+missed.  And what folly it is to put ourselves in a way in which so many
+have miscarried; to put ourselves in the hands of a physician, that hath
+murdered so many, going clean against our own sense and reason!  Whereas,
+in other cases we always lean to that which is most ordinary, and
+conclude not the spring from _one_ swallow.  It is as if a man should
+spur his ass till he speak, because Balaam’s ass did once speak; so
+grossly hath the devil bewitched us!”  Let sinners, then, meditate upon
+their own state, and remember, at the same time, the appeal of the
+Almighty to them to turn again and repent.  “Have I any pleasure at all
+that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should
+return from his ways and live?  Repent and turn yourselves from all your
+transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your ruin.  Cast away from you
+all your transgressions, and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for
+why will ye die, O house of Israel?  For I have no pleasure in the death
+of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and
+live ye.” (Ezek. xviii.)  That text which first appeared to move Jolin to
+repentance, may speak to every other sinner—“Come now, and let us reason
+together, saith the Lord.  Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
+white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
+(Isa. i. 18.)  The same words of encouragement may also speak to us, in
+the language of a merciful Saviour, “I am not come to call the righteous,
+but sinners to repentance.”  (Matt. ix. 13.)  The same promises, “God so
+loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever
+believeth on him, should not perish, but have everlasting life:” and
+again, “There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner
+that repenteth,” (Luke xv. 10.)  I would say then, again, in the language
+of Peter, “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be
+blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of
+the Lord.”
+
+A second point of consideration in this history is _the conversion of
+Jolin’s mind to a sense of religion_, _and the nature of his conversion_.
+Jolin’s early education, as far as reading and writing, had not been
+altogether neglected; and the daily misery his sins brought with them was
+not without its effect on his mind.  But it is evident the work of
+regeneration, the first step in his after conversion, had not taken place
+before he came into prison.  But when the Holy Spirit brought home the
+word of God to his heart, the change was rapidly effected.  A conviction
+of the sinfulness of his nature and habits was at once deeply impressed
+upon his conscience; he waited to see the way of pardon by a crucified
+Redeemer, and the influence of the Holy Ghost immediately produced that
+change in his will and affections which always attends real conversion.
+His whole state of mind seemed almost miraculously changed: so that
+between the twenty-third and the twenty-sixth of the same month, in the
+judgment of his legal adviser and others, a complete renovation had taken
+place.  In the former state he is described as in a distracted condition
+of mind, suffering unutterable anguish; the dread of death being
+uppermost in his thoughts: in the latter, he was calm, placid, resigned,
+and he had not one wish to live. {45}
+
+Although it would be contrary to the facts and spirit of Scripture to
+say, that no conversions of this kind were real and complete, every one
+must acknowledge, that as conversion is ordinarily a gradual work, too
+much caution cannot be exercised as to a change accomplished as rapidly
+as this may appear to have been.  It may, however, be truly said, that
+there was a remarkable absence of any thing like enthusiasm in his state.
+A dream which occurred in the commencement of his religious course will
+not be conceived to indicate a disordered imagination.  For some nights
+he had been dreadfully agitated, and could not rest.  “I dreamed,” he
+said, “that I was dragged over frightful precipices, till at last I was
+brought, as it were, into the presence of our Saviour, and there obtained
+mercy.”  This dream so harmonized with the spirit of many passages of
+Scripture pointed out to him, that it was not unlikely to occur.  In his
+case, as in every other, the first touch of religion on the soul was
+immediate; but the after stages of conversion were gradual—far more so
+than many others recorded in Scripture; and there was time to perceive
+the regular progress of growth in grace.  This case, therefore, should
+not be confounded with what are commonly called instantaneous
+conversions, because although compressed into a short period every step
+of scriptural conversion may be traced in it.  From first to last, Jolin
+was able to give a reason for the hope which was in him, and these
+reasons corresponded with the feelings and convictions described in the
+word of God.  He felt those convictions of sin on which Scripture
+insists.  He found, agreeably also to Scripture, nothing in his own state
+upon which he could depend for salvation; and, relying entirely on the
+merits of the Lord Jesus Christ, he found peace and joy in believing.  In
+this manner, if his conversion proceeded rapidly, it was not wanting in
+any of those evidences which are the unquestioned fruits of the teaching
+of God.  His conduct is the best, and indeed the only satisfactory
+commentary on the whole work.
+
+A third point worthy of consideration in the history of Jolin, is, _the
+means_ by which it pleased God _to open this young man’s mind_; and this,
+I may venture to affirm, was _the Holy Scriptures_.  It was the simple
+exhibition of the fifty-first Psalm, which at first seemed to expose his
+real state to him.  It was the promises of the New Testament, and the
+types of the Old, which gave him his first clear notion of faith, and
+which conveyed to his mind a hope of pardon.  The Scripture then became
+the subject of his meditation day and night.  It was as a “lamp unto his
+feet, and a light unto his path; a treasure more to be desired than gold,
+yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey, and the honeycomb.”
+The value of Scripture arising from its clearness, authority, and its
+peculiar power, under God, to fasten truth on the soul, are remarkably
+conspicuous in the case of this guilty person.  He heard, marked,
+learned, and inwardly digested its all-important truths, and they made
+him wise unto salvation.  But in connexion with this, and every other
+means employed, is to be noticed the _influence of Divine grace_.  The
+Almighty power and sovereignty with which this was exercised, was
+frequently acknowledged, and continually felt by Jolin.  He perceived it
+in all the remarkable circumstances of his life—in his various escapes
+from death—in his final allotment—in the events which occurred in the
+prison.  And whilst all this distinguishing mercy was shown towards him,
+he could discover nothing in himself which deserved any such remembrance
+at God’s hand.  Why was he called, and not his father, was one of the
+points which first struck his attention on the visit of his friends.  But
+to those around him some other circumstances, illustrating this
+influence, were perhaps more obvious than even to himself.  The manner in
+which he was enabled to receive the truths of the gospel; the gift of
+spiritual understanding; the willing heart; the subdued spirit, and
+sanctified heart, were all circumstances to be referred only to the
+sovereign grace of Him who worketh in his people to will and to do of his
+good pleasure.  “O, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and
+knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past
+finding out!”
+
+A fifth lesson to be learned from this history, is the _benefit of
+education_.  Here was a young man most unlikely to profit from the early
+instruction he had received; and to what account did it turn?  In his
+worst times he was enabled to read the word of God, and this he was led
+to do in the tediousness of his sea watches.  In his imprisonment, the
+blessings of his previous learning was incalculable.  In his last
+exhortations on the scaffold, he pressed upon his youthful auditors the
+advantages of attendance upon a Sunday school, and the public means of
+instruction.  It is impossible to say how much, or if any of the
+preparatory work of religion, had, by means of education, been going on
+in Jolin’s mind.  But information had been given—a desire for instruction
+had been implanted—the wretchedness of a sinful course had been
+taught—the Scriptures had been read—the scaffolding, in fact, had been
+put together, by which the future edifice might be erected.  How striking
+is the lesson of encouragement derived from this history, to those who
+are labouring in the school or in the prison.  Who could have thought
+that in either case, as it concerned Jolin, the event would have been
+what it was?  But who knows what the most untractable child may yet
+become, or how far the seed which is sown, may, even a long time hence,
+produce the desired fruit.  “In the morning sow thy seed, and in the
+evening withhold not thine hand, for thou knowest not whether shall
+prosper either this or that, or whether they shall both be alike good.”
+We may, in our efforts to instruct, meet with many disappointments, but
+it is plainly our duty to proceed, with becoming care indeed, but in the
+remembrance both of God’s almighty power to teach the heart, and of
+instances, such as this, in which that power has been so remarkably
+exerted.  The state of prisoners is one which invites, as it has in
+general received the peculiar commiseration of our countrymen: men are
+often to be found there in Jolin’s state of mind.  The prison is,
+perhaps, their first resting-place in a career of ignorance, and sin, and
+misery.  The visitor may too often, in his researches, discover the man,
+as Mr. Pinel did Jolin, “without hope for this world or the next,” and
+may lead him to discoveries of what, perhaps, never entered his
+imagination.  At all events, the circumstances of trial and affliction
+are those most favourable to seriousness of reflection; and this is the
+course by which the sinner is most often led, by the grace of God, to
+turn from the error of his ways, and to seek the hope offered in the
+Gospel.  The event is always in the hand of Him who directs the heart.
+But, under all circumstances, we work with the blessing of the Almighty,
+and with his promise, that our labour shall not be in vain.
+
+A sixth lesson to be learned from this history, is the _happy effects
+produced by the possession of true religion_.  In the case of Jolin, how
+speedily did it tranquillize and cheer his mind.  It was like the word of
+its holy author, when he said, “Peace, be still, and there was a great
+calm.”  Those who visited the chamber of death, where he dwelt, could not
+but feel a degree of surprise at their own feelings, when they remembered
+that they were with one who had been a drunkard and a murderer.  But
+religion had softened his character, and created in him those genuine
+fruits which, as we are taught, spring from the work of the Holy Spirit.
+“The wilderness had become like Eden, and the desert like the garden of
+the Lord.  Instead of the thorn had come up the fir-tree, and instead of
+the briar had come up the myrtle-tree; to be for a name, and for an
+everlasting sign that should not be cut off.”
+
+Lastly, there _is a lesson of application to our own souls_.  It may be
+asked, What is the intimate acquaintance which we have had with the
+experience which this poor dying criminal passed through?  He, being
+dead, may speak to many of his own age, who have, perhaps, had far
+greater advantages of education and example; or he may speak to those who
+have seen more years, and yet have not attained to that ripeness of
+faith, and that full assurance of hope, which made Jolin climb with such
+eagerness the gallows hill, and long for the time when he should be with
+Christ.
+
+This history applies most emphatically to the case of _young men_;
+teaching them to avoid sin, even when it may have the sanction of
+parental example.  The Bible, they must remember, and not men, especially
+ungodly men, should be their direction.  By this law we shall all be
+judged, and must stand or fall.  In Jolin’s last address, he said, “Avoid
+bad company, drinking spirits, vicious habits.”  “I exhort young people
+not to violate the Sabbath, but to frequent church, and attend to their
+religious duties.  Would that this tremendous example of punishment might
+lead every young person who hears it to inquire into his own state, and
+to remember how soon one act of sin may bring judgment upon him; and how
+tremendous will be his judgment, if, after this warning, he is found
+unprepared.”
+
+This history also speaks most loudly and awfully _to parents_.  “You see
+in me,” Jolin said from the scaffold, “the effect of bad education and
+example.  From early youth I have been addicted to intemperance.  My duty
+to God was never pointed out to me.  Those who have children committed to
+their care, I beseech to send them regularly to church, and to the
+Sunday-school, and teach them their duty to God and man.”  Let those,
+then, who are teaching Sabbath-breaking, swearing, passion, habits of
+drinking and vice, to their children, by their own example, look at the
+horrible instance of sin and its consequences, which this case presents—a
+parent, murdered, and a son hanged! from the _effects of a father’s
+example_!  The case speaks for itself: and may the Holy Spirit enable us
+to learn the lesson which it teaches.
+
+May we all who read or hear this account, apply its lessons to ourselves.
+Let us adore the astonishing love of God in the case of this poor outcast
+sinner; His sovereign power, His boundless mercy, His all-sufficient
+grace.  May we seek to lay all the burden of our transgressions upon that
+Sacrifice in whom Jolin trusted.  May we, with him, find the Holy Spirit
+making us as fit to live, as, we trust, he was fit to die: so that when
+we have fought the good fight, we shall receive the crown of glory,
+which, we may trust, this believing penitent has been called to wear in
+the presence of Him who gave him the victory, through his own blood.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                 LONDON:
+           IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.
+
+
+
+
+Footnotes
+
+
+{45} Durell’s account.
+
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+Title: An account of the Death of Philip Jolin
+       who was executed for the murder of his father, in the Island of Jersey, October 3, 1829
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF PHILIP
+JOLIN***
+</pre>
+<p>Transcribed from the 1830 Hatchard and Son edition by David
+Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p>
+<h1>AN ACCOUNT<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">OF</span><br />
+THE DEATH<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">OF</span><br />
+PHILIP JOLIN,<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">WHO WAS EXECUTED</span><br />
+<span class="GutSmall">FOR THE</span><br />
+<span class="GutSmall">MURDER OF HIS FATHER, IN THE ISLAND OF
+JERSEY,</span><br />
+OCTOBER 3, 1829.</h1>
+<div class="gapmediumline">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY</span><br
+/>
+FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM, A. M.<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">RECTOR OF PAKEFIELD.</span></p>
+<div class="gapmediumline">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: center">LONDON: HATCHARD AND SON,
+PICCADILLY;<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">SEELEY AND SONS, FLEET STREET; AND J.
+NESBITT,</span><br />
+<span class="GutSmall">BERNERS STREET.</span></p>
+<div class="gapshortline">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: center">1830.</p>
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: center"><a name="pageii"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. ii</span><span
+class="GutSmall">LONDON:</span><br />
+<span class="GutSmall">IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY
+STREET, STRAND.</span></p>
+<h2><a name="pageiii"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+iii</span>ADVERTISEMENT.</h2>
+<p>To determine the real state of mind in a criminal manifesting,
+for the first time, when under sentence of death, signs of
+repentance, is plainly a work of much difficulty.&nbsp; If ever
+dissimulation may be expected, it must be in the case of a person
+probably long habituated, and, in his present circumstances,
+additionally excited to it by the fear of death: and the
+experience of every minister of religion conversant in such
+cases, must teach him that professions of religion, under such
+circumstances, are far oftener the language of alarm, than of
+real conversion.&nbsp; Every one, therefore, would earnestly
+covet, with Mr. Newton, to know rather how the man lived, than
+how he had died.&nbsp; But here the life and the death may offer
+the most conflicting evidence.&nbsp; How difficult it is then so
+to decide as not, on the one hand, to make &ldquo;the heart of
+the righteous sad, whom God has not made sad;&rdquo; upon the
+other, to say &ldquo;peace&rdquo; to the soul, &ldquo;when there
+is no peace.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Most of the cases of religious communication with dying
+criminals, recorded in the public prints, are in the highest
+degree painful.&nbsp; The chaplain goes through the forms of
+instruction, the sermon is preached, and then, without one proof
+being assigned of the fitness of the criminal for that solemn
+ordinance of religion, the sacrament is administered.&nbsp; All
+the requisitions of our church, as to &ldquo;those who come to
+the Lord&rsquo;s supper,&rdquo; are passed by.&nbsp; The deep
+workings of repentance, and longing for amendment, the exercise
+of a lively faith in Christ, the thankful remembrance of his
+death, the feeling of universal charity so difficult <a
+name="pageiv"></a><span class="pagenum">p. iv</span>in such
+circumstances; in short, every evidence of an awakened and
+converted heart is neglected, and the man forced upon a
+hypocritical avowal of truth, to which he is in reality utterly a
+stranger.&nbsp; He dies, in fact, with &ldquo;a lie in his right
+hand&rdquo;&mdash;a lie, the guilt of which is surely divided
+between himself and the minister who urges him to the rash
+reception of the sacrament.</p>
+<p>It is under the deepest conviction of the difficulty of such
+cases, that the present tract, recording the events of the last
+eleven days in the life of a criminal is presented to the
+public.&nbsp; His crimes had been great, but hypocrisy was not
+amongst their number.&nbsp; His faculties were not such as to
+give him any peculiar facility in adopting the truths presented
+to him.&nbsp; He had received no previous religious
+instruction.&nbsp; He had no uncommon power of utterance.&nbsp;
+Let the reader judge whether the words and conduct, both before
+and after conviction, as recorded in these pages, do not supply
+an evidence of the power of God to reclaim the wanderer even in
+the eleventh hour; and are not calculated, in the highest degree,
+to encourage the often disconsolate visitor of the sick, the
+dying, and the criminal.&nbsp; The facts here recorded have been
+collected partly by personal communication, partly from letters
+to the writer from the Rev. W. C. Hall, and partly from a printed
+account of the Rev. E. Durell.&nbsp; The substance of the
+statement was first inserted in the Christian Observer, and it is
+now submitted, with some alteration, to the public, and with an
+earnest desire that its perusal may, through the Divine blessing,
+tend to the glory of that compassionate Saviour, to whose service
+it is dedicated.</p>
+<h2><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 5</span><span
+class="GutSmall">THE</span><br />
+LAST DAYS OF PHILIP JOLIN,<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">LATELY EXECUTED AT ST. HELENS,</span><br
+/>
+<span class="GutSmall">FOR</span><br />
+THE MURDER OF HIS FATHER.</h2>
+<p><span class="smcap">The</span> particulars of the crime of
+this unfortunate young man may be stated in a few words.&nbsp; He
+had long been known in the neighbourhood where he lived, as an
+object of disgrace, and the cause of perpetual disturbance.&nbsp;
+Not indeed that he was more profligate in character than those
+with whom he was immediately connected.&nbsp; His father, as well
+as his mother-in-law, lived in habits of drunkenness.&nbsp; She
+died eight months before the son committed the crime for which he
+suffered.&nbsp; Jolin was, with his father, by trade a
+blacksmith.&nbsp; His business brought with it some temptation to
+drinking; and, in Jersey, where spirits are cheaper even than in
+England, this disposition was most easily gratified.&nbsp; So
+that, with the example of his parents, and his own circumstances,
+it is not a matter of astonishment that he fell into the course
+of sin which led to his ruin.&nbsp; The progress of vice was, it
+is to be presumed, in his case, like that of other
+drunkards.&nbsp; The liquor, at first taken as a bodily relief,
+unguarded by any restraint, was soon resorted to as an
+indulgence; till at last he was enlisted in the number of those
+of whom the <a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+6</span>prophet speaks, &ldquo;who rise up in the morning that
+they may follow their drink, and continue till night, till wine
+inflames them.&rdquo;&nbsp; But the abominable tendency of this
+particular sin is illustrated almost equally by the conduct of
+the father and son.</p>
+<p>It appeared on the trial of Jolin, that he had been exposed to
+the greatest cruelties on the part of his father.&nbsp; One
+person deposed, that he had often seen him beat his son with a
+hammer, or any thing else, which might happen to come under his
+hand, and almost always about the head; and the scars from these
+wounds were seen on his head when he was committed to
+prison.&nbsp; Another, that she had once heard the
+prisoner&rsquo;s mother cry out for help.&nbsp; She went in, and
+saw the son down, and the father striking him with an iron bar,
+saying at the same time, that he was going to kill him.&nbsp;
+Very often he would not give him any food.&nbsp; Another witness
+testified, that, going into the house of the father, he saw him
+put down a flat iron bar, with which he had just been striking
+his son on the head, and his head was covered with blood.&nbsp;
+He was laid on his bed, but his father refused to allow any
+assistance to be tendered to him.&nbsp; This witness had seen the
+father kick his son about several parts of the body.&nbsp; What a
+contrast is all this to that scene which the psalmist describes
+of a household where the Spirit of God
+dwells&mdash;&ldquo;Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for
+brethren to dwell together in unity, for there the Lord
+commandeth his blessing.&rdquo;&nbsp; These facts are introduced,
+not only in explanation of the subject, but that some light may
+be thrown on the appeal which Jolin afterwards made to his judge
+on his own behalf.</p>
+<p>On the morning on which the last crime was committed, as Jolin
+confessed to one who attended upon him in prison, he had drank to
+excess, and become completely intoxicated.&nbsp; In this state he
+returned to his own home&mdash;a home of which, he added,
+&ldquo;no one knew the wretchedness.&rdquo;&nbsp; It was dinner
+time, but he found no food prepared, and from his father he met
+with only that reception which he might expect from such a
+parent; more <a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+7</span>especially when he himself was overcome with
+drunkenness.&nbsp; He went into the garden to gather a pear, and
+about this the fatal quarrel ensued.&nbsp; The father had come
+behind, and caught him by the cape of the jacket, and kicked him
+about the back and legs.&nbsp; He tore himself from his father,
+and was soon seen running out of the house crying, and the father
+in the act of pursuing, as if with the intention of striking
+him.&nbsp; The father said that he would &ldquo;settle him when
+he returned.&rdquo;&nbsp; The son replied, that he would
+&ldquo;settle him (the father) also.&rdquo;&nbsp; The son then
+ran to a heap of bricks which lay in the street, and taking one
+which he appears to have broken in two pieces, he returned to be
+revenged on his father.&nbsp; He was remonstrated with by a
+neighbour, but in vain.&nbsp; In his rage he threw the brickbats
+at his father.&nbsp; One of the pieces struck him on the head,
+and he immediately fell to the ground.&nbsp; The wretched
+sufferer swooned from the violence of the blow and the loss of
+blood.&nbsp; In this state he appears to have remained, with very
+little change, for about an hour, when he died.&nbsp; It is not
+stated whether he was enabled to cry for mercy to that God, into
+whose presence he was thus awfully hurried; or whether he had
+time to reflect upon the state of his son, and his probable
+punishment.&nbsp; How awful must have been the change to this
+wretched man, when he found himself in a moment lifting up his
+eyes before the Judge of quick and dead!</p>
+<p>Meanwhile, the son, utterly unconscious of what he had done,
+or feeling only satisfaction at what he thought was the suitable
+punishment for his father, went out again, and finding his way
+into a neighbour&rsquo;s shop, told the keeper of it that his
+father had beaten him, and that he had knocked him down.&nbsp;
+Here he fell asleep, and slept probably till his fit of
+intoxication had passed away.&nbsp; On rising he was about
+quietly and unsuspectingly to return to the scene of his crime,
+when he was arrested and brought to prison.&nbsp; When, on the
+way to the prison, he was told that his conduct might possibly
+bring him to the gallows, he showed his first symptom of
+alarm.&nbsp; He remained in prison till Thursday, September 24,
+when he <a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 8</span>was
+submitted to his first public examination.&nbsp; The trial,
+according to the laws of that country, was repeated on Monday the
+28th.&nbsp; The judges, and two juries, in number together
+thirty-seven, after the fullest investigation of the facts, and
+after hearing the able defence of his advocate, Mr. Hammond,
+pronounced his crime to be murder, and condemned him to
+death.&nbsp; The court refused even to make application for the
+mitigation of punishment, whereupon he was delivered to the
+execution of his sentence, which he underwent on Saturday, Oct.
+3d.</p>
+<p>There were many particulars in this case, in addition to the
+remarkable nature of the crime, and indeed the rareness of any
+crime of such magnitude in the small district in which it
+occurred, that made it a subject of very general notice.&nbsp;
+One leading circumstance was the manifest alteration which took
+place in Jolin&rsquo;s mind during the period of his
+imprisonment.&nbsp; Upon this point there was an entire agreement
+of opinion amongst all persons who had any acquaintance with the
+real state of the case.&nbsp; Not only ministers, both of the
+church and the Dissenters, but persons of other classes, bore
+testimony to the reality of <i>a</i> change; the <i>nature</i> of
+which, however, not so many persons could detect, as its very
+striking effects.&nbsp; The newspaper spoke of an
+&ldquo;alteration&rdquo; which took place in him, of his
+&ldquo;confession, in the most humble terms, of his own
+sinfulness;&rdquo; of &ldquo;his forcible admonitions to others
+to abstain from evil, and to practise the duties of religion and
+morality;&rdquo; but of the change of heart which this case
+exhibited, the editor of the paper seems to have had no real
+understanding.&nbsp; The case of Jolin, convinced of his sin,
+however, is that of a man, not merely convinced of his guilt in
+one instance, and anxious to warn others not converted by the
+Holy Ghost, acknowledging his total alienation of heart from God,
+and persuaded that all his repentance, all his good resolutions,
+could never expiate his past sins; but that, as he himself said,
+&ldquo;Christ was his only hope; for <span
+class="smcap">He</span> had paid his ransom, and He would receive
+him into glory.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The greater part of persons who have had much experience <a
+name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 9</span>in visiting the
+dying sick, or condemned criminals, have, in general, little
+confidence in a repentance which only springs up under the
+apprehension of immediate death, whatever flights of sentiment
+may be exhibited.&nbsp; They have seen in the backsliding of men
+who promised every thing in the time of sickness, how vain,
+generally speaking, are the convictions of their sincerity.&nbsp;
+In the greater part of these cases, there is a want of
+completeness in the work of repentance and faith, which the
+experienced pastoral visitor is often able to detect; too little
+of real contrition, or too much of profession and
+confidence.&nbsp; But in the case in question, those who visited
+Jolin confess themselves to have been impressed, as they might
+conceive the spectators to be affected by the case of the thief
+on the cross.&nbsp; One and all were led to say, &ldquo;this is
+the finger of God.&rdquo;&nbsp; Under such circumstances, it
+cannot surely be wrong to gather together a few particulars of
+this history, which will be interesting to those, at least, who
+have experienced the power of divine grace in their own change of
+heart, and who rejoice in every display of it in the sinner that
+repenteth.</p>
+<p>Jolin appears in early life to have been sent to school,
+although he said, that such had been the irregularity of his
+father&rsquo;s house, and such the hindrances thrown in his way,
+that he had been more impeded than encouraged by his parents, in
+any attempt to attend upon the public means of religious
+instruction.&nbsp; How tremendous is the responsibility of such a
+father and mother; culpable in their neglect, but awfully so in
+their example!&nbsp; And what a case is here presented of the
+retributive justice of God!&nbsp; The father trained his child in
+habits of intoxication, and treated him with cruel violence; and
+the son, in a fit of intoxication, by an act of violence, hurried
+his father headlong to the bar of God&rsquo;s judgment.&nbsp; We
+are not able, often, so clearly to trace the workings of Almighty
+wrath; nor is it to be expected, that, placed as we are in a
+state in which we must look for our rewards or punishments beyond
+the grave, we should here see any proportionate recompense of
+crime.&nbsp; Still we know, that &ldquo;as a man sows <a
+name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 10</span>so he shall
+also reap,&rdquo; if not in this world, to bring him to
+repentance, yet certainly, and how much more awfully! in that
+world where a place for repentance is no where found.</p>
+<p>This young man, on some occasions previous to his committal to
+prison, had read the Bible; for he remarked to one of his
+attendants, that when at sea, during his watch, he had done so;
+but he added, &ldquo;I then read it as a sealed book.&nbsp; I had
+neither eyes given me to see, nor ears to hear, and this was a
+just judgment upon me for my sins.&rdquo;&nbsp; His mode of life
+had, indeed, been one of complete dissoluteness.&nbsp; He went to
+sea, because he was too bad to remain on land; and he returned to
+shore, probably because he was wearied of the restraints at
+sea.&nbsp; The relations of the family, disgusted at the scenes
+of vice in his father&rsquo;s house, abandoned them.&nbsp; So
+that it is not easy to conceive a state of lower degradation than
+this young man had reached.&nbsp; No one, as he himself said,
+could describe the misery of this state as he had experienced
+it.&nbsp; What situation could indeed more completely tend to
+brutalize the mind, to deaden every feeling of conscience, to
+leave the man long habituated to it &ldquo;without hope,&rdquo;
+and indeed &ldquo;without God in the world?&rdquo;&nbsp; The
+nature of the crime for which Jolin was committed to prison, was
+such as to increase the general horror against him.&nbsp; This
+was exhibited by the crowd, in the streets, on the occasion of
+his trial; so that his various crimes had made him an outcast
+from the pity and compassion of his fellow-creatures.&nbsp; It is
+true, there were particular circumstances in his case, which, if
+generally known, would have lessened the public indignation, and
+which might have been a source of secret satisfaction to
+himself.&nbsp; These were the exceeding badness of his education,
+the brutality of his father, the continual discord of his family,
+the state of intoxication in which he was when he unintentionally
+committed the crime; but these points, although once alluded to
+in his appeal to his judges, were scarcely mentioned by him in
+his private conversations, so completely was the conviction
+established in his mind, that he had <a name="page11"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 11</span>fallen into sin by the wilfulness of
+his own heart, that he had destroyed himself; and that to a
+greater depth of transgression he could scarcely have
+reached.</p>
+<p>After Jolin had been lodged in gaol, he was visited by a very
+respectable relative, Mr. Pinel, a member of the Methodist
+church.&nbsp; He made this visit, as he himself testified,
+without the hope of any spiritual benefit.&nbsp; He, however,
+desired to relieve his temporal necessities, and to afford him
+all the comfort in his power.&nbsp; He found the poor culprit in
+a most pitiable state.&nbsp; Overwhelmed and stunned by his
+situation, he was lying on a heap of straw, and appeared like one
+who had no hope to look to in this world, or the next.&nbsp; Mr.
+Pinel said to him, &ldquo;Young man, I think both your body and
+your soul are in great danger.&rdquo;&nbsp; Jolin did not answer,
+but sobbed excessively.&nbsp; He then procured for him a bed, and
+some comfortable clothing, and put into his hands a French
+Testament.&nbsp; Soon after, as there was at that time no
+chaplain regularly appointed to the gaol, Jolin was visited by
+the curate of the parish, M. Falle.&nbsp; After some days, M.
+Falle&rsquo;s great occupation in his ministry led him to
+transfer this important and interesting charge to the Rev. W. C.
+Hall, a young clergyman residing in the island, who took the more
+immediate care of him, watched over, instructed, and finally
+attended him through the dark valley of the shadow of death, till
+he reached, as I doubt not, the portal of the heavenly
+abode.&nbsp; Meanwhile the Testament was not neglected by
+Jolin.&nbsp; He read it nearly through; but, in the first
+instance, it would seem, without understanding the nature of the
+message which it was designed to convey.&nbsp; His mind, however,
+was no doubt gradually preparing by the Holy Spirit to receive
+the instruction about to be more fully imparted.&nbsp; On the 22d
+of September, about ten days before his execution, Jolin was
+visited by Mr. Hall and another clergyman.&nbsp; He was then
+sitting in his bed, and looking as wretched as might be expected
+under the circumstances in which he was placed; as Mr. Pinel had
+stated, &ldquo;without hope for this world, or the
+next.&rdquo;&nbsp; They immediately entered upon the object of
+their visit, and <a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+12</span>spoke to him of the nature of his offence; of the sin of
+murder, as condemned by the law of God, and aggravated in his
+case, because committed against a parent; of its sentence in the
+judgment of men, and its heinousness in the sight of God.&nbsp;
+They pointed out to him, that, awful as is man&rsquo;s sentence
+against this crime, little consideration was due to this in
+comparison with the condemnation which the law of God pronounced;
+and that this condemnation had passed upon him, and that the
+execution of its sentence of eternal death would be inflicted if
+he did not repent, and seek help and pardon through Jesus
+Christ.&nbsp; All this was manifest, for it was written in the
+word of God, that murderers should have their part in the lake
+which burneth with fire and brimstone (Rev. xxi. 8;) that
+drunkards should not inherit the kingdom of God, (1 Cor. vi. 10:)
+and this condemnation, it was also pointed out, extended not only
+to these crimes, but to that of the general sin of the heart, and
+was the necessary consequence of its separation and alienation
+from God.&nbsp; That this condemnation would come upon all
+sinners was evident, for it is written, &ldquo;The wages of sin
+is death,&rdquo; (Rom. vi. 23.)&nbsp; One point appeared
+particularly to produce the deepest sensation of pain in this
+young man&rsquo;s mind; this was the representation of the
+conduct of God towards him in reference to his father; that
+whilst that unhappy man had been cut off, and sent almost without
+warning, with all his sins upon him, before the Judge who will
+deal with every man according to his works, he, the murderer, had
+been spared, and brought into a prison, where he had opportunity
+given him to reflect upon his state, to seek for pardon, and
+where salvation was offered to him, if he would turn and seek
+it.&nbsp; The cry of, &ldquo;Oh my father, my poor father!&rdquo;
+mingled with his sobs on that occasion.</p>
+<p>Although Jolin&rsquo;s crime was so palpable, and was
+confessed by him in the fullest, yet as it was committed
+unconsciously, and he had seen no traces of it, except in what
+others told him, the whole seemed like a dream; and the deed
+itself, with its appalling circumstances, were not likely to
+fasten themselves on his mind as if it had been <a
+name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 13</span>premeditated,
+or as if he had been in full possession of his understanding, or
+as if he, which he himself wished, had seen his father&rsquo;s
+murdered corpse.&nbsp; However, this circumstance afterwards
+appeared to turn out to his advantage.&nbsp; It prevented him
+from fixing his thoughts exclusively on a particular sin; and he
+was thus less hindered in discovering the sinfulness of his
+nature and of his general habits, and learning the lesson it is
+often so difficult to comprehend, that we are not less condemned
+by the law of God for our general alienation from him, than for
+any one or more scandalous offences which we may have
+committed.&nbsp; Not that this state of mind in Jolin prevented
+him from coming to the deepest sense of his own particular
+offence; for as he learned more thoroughly to understand the
+nature of sin in general, his feeling for his peculiar crime more
+deeply penetrated his soul.&nbsp; One other subject seemed to
+produce in him the same intense state of feeling which the
+mention of his father had done; this was the sin of intemperance,
+which had, as I have before remarked, been the immediate cause of
+his crime.&nbsp; Mr. Hall, thinking that he might be suffering
+from the cold, confined as he was in a large stone-chamber, of
+which the window was usually open, guarded him against seeking a
+refuge from his sufferings from drinking.&nbsp; At the mention of
+this, he went off again into expressions of horror at the
+supposed possibility of such an offence in his tremendous
+circumstances, and declared that nothing should again tempt him
+thus to transgress.&nbsp; Yet, as Mr. Hall observes, were his
+resolutions expressed rather as if smarting under the penalty of
+his crime, than as if conscious of his own inability to keep the
+engagement which he was entering into.&nbsp; He spoke as a man
+strong in his own strength, and as yet unacquainted with the
+perfect weakness of resolution not formed in dependence upon the
+power of God.</p>
+<p>On the point of again falling into the sins of which he seemed
+to have repented, three distinct states were noticed in
+Jolin&rsquo;s case before his execution.&nbsp; At first, as at
+this visit, he was fully confident that, if he were once <a
+name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 14</span>more to be
+set at liberty, he should never again become intoxicated.&nbsp;
+Afterwards, when he came to discover the exceeding weakness of
+his nature, he even dreaded the possibility of his life being
+accorded to him, lest he should again fall into temptation.&nbsp;
+And, lastly, he learned to believe, that having cast himself
+entirely upon Divine grace, and, therefore, using those means of
+watchfulness and prayer which the word of God prescribes, he
+needed not fear, if he were called again to life, the temptation
+even to those vices to which he had been most habituated.&nbsp;
+On the occasion of this visit, the fifty-first Psalm was pointed
+out to him.&nbsp; It was in the Prayer-book version, as there was
+no Bible at hand.&nbsp; This Psalm, so remarkably calculated to
+meet the experience of a man feeling deeply his sins, and more
+particularly of one implicated as he was in such a variety of
+vice, struck his attention very deeply; and the more so when, the
+next day, it was read to him in the Bible translation, and its
+chief points expounded to him.&nbsp; He learned a great part of
+this Psalm by heart; it was nearly the last portion of Scripture
+that he repeated; and it became one of the subjects of his
+meditation during the long nights in which he was shut up
+alone.</p>
+<p>The next day, the 23d, two or three passages of Scripture were
+introduced to his notice; besides which a fuller view was
+presented to him of the nature and consequences of sin.&nbsp; On
+this occasion he was taught in what manner sin is the defilement
+of the whole heart; that even the sins of his youth brought him
+just as much into condemnation before a holy God as his one great
+crime; that eternal death was the wages of every transgression of
+the Divine law; and that repentance unto life required not only a
+feeling of sorrow for one sin, but for every sin, yea, for sin
+itself, as an offence against the Almighty.&nbsp; The promises of
+God to the chief of sinners were then pointed out him from Isa.
+i. 18, that &ldquo;though his sins were as scarlet, they might be
+made white as snow;&rdquo; and from Isa. lv. 6, 7, that &ldquo;if
+the wicked forsook his way, and returned unto the Lord, he would
+have mercy, and abundantly <a name="page15"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 15</span>pardon.&rdquo;&nbsp; The former of
+these passages remained fixed in his memory, and was a continual
+source of consolation to his mind.&nbsp; He now began to feel
+that his sins were as scarlet, and to desire earnestly to be
+pardoned.&nbsp; Two other passages were also at that time
+referred to, and enlarged upon.&nbsp; The first of these was John
+iii. 14, 15.&nbsp; &ldquo;As Moses lifted up the serpent in the
+wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that
+whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have
+everlasting life.&rdquo;&nbsp; This type presenting so remarkable
+an image of the Lord Jesus Christ lifted up to bear the sins of
+his people, and affording a remedy to those who really believe in
+Him, was peculiarly calculated to meet his case: and he was
+further taught from it, that as this people, if they had rather
+chosen to trust to other remedies, or had refused to look at the
+brazen serpent, or had spent their time in mourning over their
+maladies, instead of doing as they were commanded, would never
+have been healed; so if the sinner does not look to Christ, there
+is no hope for him.&nbsp; One other important lesson was also
+gathered from this subject; namely, that &ldquo;if a serpent had
+bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he
+lived;&rdquo; and in like manner, &ldquo;Whosoever believeth on
+Jesus Christ shall not perish, but have eternal
+life.&rdquo;&nbsp; Jolin was thus instructed in the mode of
+pardon before God, through the merits of Jesus Christ; and in the
+efficacy of this remedy, the universality of it to all that
+believe, and the nature of faith, the means by which it can alone
+be appropriated.</p>
+<p>The last passage referred to was the history of the Scape
+goat, contained in Lev. xvi.&nbsp; In this history we find that
+Aaron, whilst the people afflicted their souls, (ver. 29,) laid
+both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confessed on him
+all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their
+transgressions, putting them upon the head of the goat, and that
+the goat bore away with him all their iniquities into a land not
+inhabited.&nbsp; The illustration of this subject, and its
+application to Jolin&rsquo;s own case, were very obvious.&nbsp;
+The people &ldquo;afflicting their soul,&rdquo; denoted the state
+in which every sinner must present <a name="page16"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 16</span>himself before God&mdash;for it is
+the broken and the contrite heart which God will not despise; the
+&ldquo;confession of sin&rdquo; on the head of the goat pointed
+out the first and necessary duty of the returning
+penitent&mdash;for &ldquo;if we say that we have no sin we
+deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but if we confess
+our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins:&rdquo;
+the laying the sins upon the head of the goat exhibited the act
+of faith, by which the condemnation of the sinner is transferred
+to his atoning sacrifice; and the leading away the goat into the
+wilderness, the full, perfect, and eternal pardon promised in the
+Gospel, of every sin to every repenting sinner.</p>
+<p>Although Jolin was not a person of uncommon capacity, and
+although these passages of Scripture seemed to be new to him, yet
+he apprehended them in a manner which gave just indication that
+his heart was under the Divine teaching.&nbsp; It is said, Isa.
+liv. 13, &ldquo;All thy children shall be taught of the
+Lord.&rdquo;&nbsp; This state of teachableness now seemed to have
+been produced in this poor young man.&nbsp; The power of God had
+made his heart <i>willing</i>, Ps. cx. 3; and he came very soon
+to understand the truths by which he might be saved.&nbsp; When
+the will of man is not disposed to submit to God, every doctrine
+of the Gospel presents difficulties; one point is unreasonable,
+another impossible, a third useless; but when the mind is taught
+of God, it is astonishing how soon all these difficulties
+vanish.&nbsp; The doctrines of the Gospel, which seem the most
+hard to understand and to receive, are at once
+comprehended.&nbsp; It is like a change from darkness to
+light.&nbsp; The passages of Scripture which teach the sinfulness
+of our own nature, the worth of a Saviour, the nature of faith,
+the pleasantness of religion, the delight attendant upon dwelling
+with God, are at once received and adopted; and the whole system
+of Christianity is discovered to be one exactly suited to the
+sinner&rsquo;s own state.&nbsp; But the willingness of heart
+which is necessary to a right reception of religion, we are every
+where in Scripture taught, is the gift of the Holy Spirit.&nbsp;
+It cometh &ldquo;not of blood,&rdquo; that is, from our parents;
+&ldquo;nor of the will of the flesh,&rdquo; that <a
+name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 17</span>is, by our
+own natural inclination; &ldquo;nor of the will of man,&rdquo;
+that is, by the teaching of others; &ldquo;but of
+God.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;The wind bloweth where it listeth, and
+thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it
+cometh and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the
+Spirit.&rdquo;&nbsp; We see then how necessary it is that, if any
+man &ldquo;lack wisdom,&rdquo; he should &ldquo;ask it of
+God;&rdquo; and so much the more, as our Lord himself declares,
+Luke xi. 13, his desire to give his Holy Spirit to them that ask
+him.</p>
+<p>The 24th was the day of Jolin&rsquo;s first trial, at the
+close of which he was found guilty.&nbsp; Some of his friends,
+whom he had asked to go to him, went after the trial.&nbsp; They
+expected to find him, on this occasion, in some degree disturbed
+and agitated in mind; but it was altogether otherwise.&nbsp; The
+irons to which he was sentenced were put on him in their
+presence.&nbsp; To this, as the natural consequence of his
+condemnation, he submitted almost without notice.&nbsp; Indeed,
+the trial and the condemnation itself seem to have made little or
+no impression upon him; for it was only by minute and repeated
+inquiry as to the proceedings of the day, that visitors could
+obtain from him any account of them.&nbsp; His mind seemed
+absorbed in something else; and what this was, afterwards
+appeared.&nbsp; His conduct, during his trial, had been remarked
+by many of his judges, as entirely suitable to his awful
+situation.&nbsp; Indeed, his whole frame of mind was now
+beginning to discover the influence of a new principle, and to
+show that the great work of regeneration was taking place.&nbsp;
+In the early part of his confinement, and indeed very recently,
+he had wished, as he might naturally, for his escape; and his cry
+to his advocate had been, &ldquo;Save me from the gallows;&rdquo;
+but at this period, the desire that his life might be spared,
+seemed to be taken away from him in a most astonishing
+degree.&nbsp; It was not so with the very zealous and able
+advocate to whom his cause had been committed, and who very
+properly continued to the end, to urge every plea, and to
+encourage his client to every effort, by which his punishment
+might be remitted, or even delayed.&nbsp; His friends too were
+most kindly anxious on this point; and they even <a
+name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 18</span>attempted to
+prove him insane, that they might effect their purpose.&nbsp; For
+a time he was influenced by the same desire.&nbsp; But to those
+who visited him about this period, he never once alluded to a
+desire to escape; but on the contrary, seemed almost always to
+refer to his sentence without apparent emotion; and towards the
+end, he appeared to long for, and to be earnest for its
+completion.&nbsp; This state of mind was no doubt to be
+attributed to two causes; in part, to a complete acquaintance
+with the state of his own case, and to its final settlement by
+his judges; but probably much more to his new state of religious
+feeling; a sense of his own spiritual condition had begun to
+swallow up every other consideration.</p>
+<p>A friend had given him the second chapter of the Ephesians for
+his consideration, that he might gain still further views of his
+state of guilt and defilement, and that he might more clearly
+trace both the power of Divine grace, by which the sinner is
+quickened, and the bright prospect placed before those who seek
+for pardon by the blood of Christ.&nbsp; The conversation of this
+day led to the subjects contained in this chapter; and more
+particularly to the impossibility of man&rsquo;s pardon, but by
+the grace of God, through Christ Jesus.&nbsp; In the midst of a
+statement of the hindrances in the way of salvation, from the
+evil of our heart, the weakness of our best endeavours, and the
+defilement of our services, Jolin remarked, &ldquo;I must put off
+my sins.&rdquo;&nbsp; It was asked, what he meant by putting off
+his sins.&nbsp; His answer manifested at once the simple, but
+clear, manner in which he had received the Scripture illustration
+pointed out to him the day before, and it was truly gladdening to
+the feelings of his visitors: &ldquo;Did you not tell me
+yesterday about the live goat on whose head the sins were
+laid?&rdquo;&nbsp; The application of the type of the scape goat
+had thus been made by him to his own state; and he had arrived at
+the conviction, that, whatever might have been his sins, and
+whatever were his hindrances, he was permitted to &ldquo;put them
+all off,&rdquo; upon that all-sufficient atonement, the Lamb of
+God, which taketh away the sins of the world.&nbsp; He had thus
+been enabled to feel his burden, to bring it to the <a
+name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 19</span>cross of
+Christ; and at once it seemed to have fallen from him at the feet
+of his Redeemer.</p>
+<p>The nature of faith is illustrated in a very interesting
+manner, by the case of Jolin.&nbsp; The sinfulness of his own
+state he knew, and felt deeply.&nbsp; He did not, however, seek
+to excuse himself, or to palliate his offences: he did not think
+that past services would be any compensation to God; that any
+circumstance of his life or character would skreen him from
+Almighty wrath; or that by repentance he might be pardoned
+through the mere mercy of his Heavenly Father.&nbsp; In himself,
+therefore, he had no ground of hope whatsoever: he was as a
+debtor who had nothing to pay; as a sick man whose case was
+desperate: but he felt an assurance that Christ was able to pay
+his debt, and to cure his disease, and that in his own particular
+case, he would do it; and he himself did in heart, what the high
+priest did with his hands, transfer all his sins to the
+atonement.&nbsp; Thus he came to feel, not indeed presumptuously,
+but with confidence, that all his sins were laid upon the
+sacrifice; and he was able to contemplate the Saviour&rsquo;s
+mercies instead of his own merited doom as a sinner.&nbsp; The
+ground of this assurance in his mind was an acceptance of the
+simple testimony of God, that he would blot out his
+transgressions.&nbsp; He believed in this word of promise, and
+joy in believing was at once imparted to him.&nbsp; The
+simplicity with which Jolin received the testimony of God in this
+instance characterized his religious experience during the whole
+of his remaining course.&nbsp; The Scriptures were as a message
+of God to his soul.&nbsp; He received them as feeling there could
+be no doubt but every word of them was true.&nbsp; I often, said
+Mr. Hall, in the after part of his history, tried to persuade him
+that it was, naturally speaking, an incredible thing that God
+should have come in the flesh and atone for sin.&nbsp; But he
+always said that he believed it, because it was so written in the
+book which is the truth.</p>
+<p>I have before noticed the indifference which Jolin appeared to
+feel to outward circumstances.&nbsp; I have yet to observe
+another point connected with it, in this day&rsquo;s visit, <a
+name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 20</span>which was the
+brightness and almost cheerfulness of aspect that his manner and
+countenance gradually assumed.&nbsp; In the period before his
+condemnation, his downcast look and general air of wretchedness
+were not unsuited to a state of despair; but now he lifted up his
+head, and even his voice seemed to have changed its tone.&nbsp;
+This surprising change was observed by others.&nbsp; Mr. Hammond,
+Jolin&rsquo;s advocate, told M. Durell, as he himself has
+recorded it, that when he saw the prisoner on the twenty-third of
+September, he found him &ldquo;in really a distracted state, torn
+by every conflicting passion, and all his faculties hurried by
+the unutterable anguish of remorse.&nbsp; The dread of death was
+uppermost in his thoughts; and there was nothing to which he
+would not have submitted to avoid capital punishment: but when he
+saw him again on the evening of the twenty-sixth, he was
+astonished at the sudden change which had taken place in him: he
+was calm, placid, and resigned, and he had not one wish to
+live.&nbsp; I then,&rdquo; continues Mr. Durell, &ldquo;mentioned
+to Mr. Hammond, that I had found him exactly in that state on my
+first visit, the twenty-sixth, which had preceded his own only by
+a few hours.&rdquo;&nbsp; He adds, &ldquo;the opinion of an
+impartial and enlightened man, like Mr. Hammond, was certainly
+very important: but M. de Quetteville, the mayor of the town, and
+other laymen of the highest respectability, who had formerly
+known the prisoner, had been equally struck with that great and
+salutary change.&nbsp; From a comparison of dates,&rdquo; adds
+Mr. Durell, &ldquo;I am inclined to believe, that his change must
+not only have been rapid, but that his heart must have been
+almost as instantaneously touched as that of the penitent
+malefactor in the gospel.&rdquo;&nbsp; Now how was this wonderful
+change to be accounted for?&nbsp; We read in Acts xvi. 34, that
+when the keeper of the prison in Philippi had received St.
+Paul&rsquo;s message, &ldquo;Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
+and thou shalt be saved;&rdquo; that he &ldquo;took&rdquo; the
+apostles &ldquo;<i>the same hour of the night</i>, and washed
+their stripes;&rdquo; and was &ldquo;baptized,&rdquo; and
+rejoiced believing in God.&nbsp; It was perhaps this very feeling
+of joy which Jolin now experienced; <a name="page21"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 21</span>a joy which arose from a clear, full,
+well-grounded belief in the doctrine of justification by
+faith.&nbsp; This doctrine, which gives peace with God, is, when
+rightly apprehended, attended with an experience of the love of
+God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost, Rev. i. v., and
+this necessarily brings joy with it.&nbsp; Thus, the man who has
+been taught to look to him that justifieth the ungodly, is able
+to walk in the light of God&rsquo;s countenance, and is
+&ldquo;filled with all joy and peace in believing.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>On the 25th, Jolin narrated to his visitor the whole history
+of his melancholy life; his difficulties and discomforts,
+arising, not so much from others, as from his own sinful, wilful
+heart.&nbsp; Like many other young persons, he had chosen the way
+of dissipation and folly, instead of that which many
+circumstances had led him to think was a happier and a safer
+course.&nbsp; It is indeed true, that his parents were not in a
+state to check him in his proceedings; but he seems to have had
+at many intervals those convictions of conscience which were
+sufficient to have guarded him from the transgressions into which
+he fell, and even to have guided him to seek the paths of
+religion.&nbsp; His wretched education, however, came in aid of
+his natural self-will, and soon confirmed him in those vices
+which led to his ruin.</p>
+<p>His state had been, as he himself described it, at times truly
+miserable; but drinking had quickly expelled every conviction of
+his own guilt, and he soon returned again to his mad
+career.&nbsp; He observed to Mr. Durell, that since 1823, he had
+not seen one happy week.&mdash;There are two things to observe on
+these transient convictions of guilt in a state of
+unconversion.&nbsp; Until the Spirit of God has enlightened the
+heart, sin does not by any means, in all cases, appear as it had
+appeared to Jolin, and as it invariably does to the renewed
+heart, a grievous burden.&nbsp; The life of many wretched sinners
+is one unbroken course of self-satisfaction.&nbsp; They are
+described in the seventy-third Psalm, as often passing from their
+cradles to their graves without a feeling of sorrow, or an
+apprehension of <a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+22</span>death.&nbsp; The Bible, however, teaches, that such a
+state of unmixed prosperity is the most dangerous in which a man
+can be placed; that the sinner, when thus left alone of God, is
+lifted to that very slippery pinnacle from which he will fall to
+his eternal ruin.&nbsp; Ministers cannot, therefore, press upon
+their ungodly hearers the universal conviction of the misery
+attending upon sin as an evidence of their unconverted state,
+because sin does not in this life uniformly bring along with it
+any such conviction.&nbsp; Their state of self-complacency is,
+indeed, a state which comes as short of the real spiritual
+happiness of the true Christian, as darkness does of light; but
+it often affords a false peace, which perhaps does not leave the
+sinner till his punishment begins, and the door of hope is shut
+against him for ever.&nbsp; Another observation arising from
+Jolin&rsquo;s feeling of wretchedness in his former state, is,
+that the pain sometimes connected either with the practice of
+sin, or a view of its consequences, will not, unassisted by the
+Spirit of God, produce the real repentance which the Gospel
+requires.&nbsp; It is true, the compunctions of conscience, like
+the afflictions of life, are means often used to prepare the
+sinner for the doctrines of the Gospel.&nbsp; Yet, in how many
+cases do we find men wounded, but not contrite; stunned, but not
+really affected by the deepest distresses of life.&nbsp; Thus we
+learn, that it is not any mere dispensation of Providence which
+necessarily brings men to that knowledge and faith which are
+needful for salvation.&nbsp; It is true, that God does bless the
+endeavours of the willing mind whenever he sees them; but the
+mind is not necessarily made willing because it suffers, any more
+than a child is necessarily made more compliant by the punishment
+which is inflicted.&nbsp; Some substances harden whilst others
+melt under the fire.&nbsp; Thus some souls are only confirmed in
+sin by the events which are instrumental in recovering others
+from it.&nbsp; For this he must be quickened by the power of God,
+he must have an entirely different sense imparted to him from the
+mere feeling of the misery of an evil course, or the afflictions
+of life; he must be convinced of his own desperate state in the
+sight of God, and <a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+23</span>of the need of that sacrifice which the Saviour has
+wrought out, before that good work is really begun, which, it is
+promised, shall be carried on till the day of Jesus Christ.&nbsp;
+So far, then, from the common notion, that the sufferings of our
+life will atone for its offences, those sufferings have no
+connexion whatever with our state hereafter, except as they may
+have been a means of bringing us to seek that sacrifice by whom
+alone any of our sins can be pardoned.</p>
+<p>But to return to Jolin&rsquo;s history.&nbsp; In the visit of
+the 25th, he was again led to a consideration of the only
+sacrifice for man&rsquo;s transgression, particularly as it is
+exhibited in the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah.&nbsp; In this
+portion of Scripture he learnt more exactly the cause for which
+Jesus Christ came on the earth, and became a man of sorrows, and
+acquainted with grief:&mdash;&ldquo;Surely he hath borne our
+griefs, and carried our sorrows.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;He was
+wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
+iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with
+his stripes we are healed.&nbsp; All we like sheep have gone
+astray: we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath
+laid on him the iniquity of us all.&rdquo;&nbsp; Other passages
+of Scripture, connected with this subject, and pointing out the
+love of God as the first cause of man&rsquo;s salvation, were
+also explained to him, as, Rom. v. 8, &ldquo;While we were yet
+sinners, Christ died for us.&rdquo;&nbsp; And in connexion with
+this, Ephes. ii. 4, 5, &ldquo;God, who is rich in mercy, for his
+great love wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in sin,
+hath quickened us together with Christ.&rdquo;&nbsp; And, Rom.
+viii. 1, &ldquo;There is no condemnation to them that are in
+Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
+Spirit.&rdquo;&nbsp; The being in Christ Jesus, and the nature of
+faith, by which alone he could apply the merits and sufferings of
+the Saviour, were now, as they were continually, dwelt upon.</p>
+<p>The faith of the Gospel, he was more particularly taught, was
+such a reception of the truths of Scripture, and more especially
+of the engagement of God to pardon every sinner who came to him
+in Christ Jesus, as led not only to an entire dependence upon
+Christ, but to a complete <a name="page24"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 24</span>submission to his will, and a
+consequent change in our own nature.&nbsp; It was not merely a
+reception of the doctrine of faith, which was to be regarded as
+faith in the soul, but the creation in the heart of a new and
+animated feeling of trust in the Redeemer.&nbsp; The influence of
+faith in the soul was like that of food to the body; it imparts a
+new feeling and character; gives new nourishment and vigour, and
+works by love, not only to the Saviour himself, but to all around
+us.&nbsp; Faith, therefore, to be a living principle, must be
+felt by ourselves, and must be seen by others: and of both these
+points the faith of this young man gave ample proof.&nbsp; It
+gave confidence to his own mind, and even gladdened his heart; it
+made the Bible a new book to him; it cheered the solitude of his
+prison; it directed him to be mindful of every practical duty; it
+gave a new direction to all his hopes and fears, and enabled him
+to go onwards in a spirit of filial dependence to meet the last
+conflict.&nbsp; It was at this time, I think, that he made a
+confession, which served to explain his previous state of mind,
+and to show how remarkably his attention was fixed on one
+point.&nbsp; &ldquo;How extraordinary, sir,&rdquo; said he,
+&ldquo;it is, that for these last two days I have been able to
+give my mind only to <i>one</i> subject; the thought of my crime
+and of my death have been taken from me, and I have scarcely been
+able to give my attention to either.&rdquo;&nbsp; The one subject
+which occupied all his attention, and shut out every other, was
+the love <a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+25</span>of his Saviour, who had given himself for his
+sins.&nbsp; This, as he said, &ldquo;filled his
+heart.&rdquo;&nbsp; His state of mind served to show the
+absorbing nature of this Divine principle when it is fully
+implanted in the soul.&nbsp; When the mind has suddenly gained a
+view of its former state of alienation, and has been brought nigh
+again to God, it is impossible that the sense of this vast change
+should not swallow up every other feeling.&nbsp; It is difficult
+at all times to think much of God, and to think of any thing
+else; but how much more, when the first conviction of the Divine
+presence overwhelms the soul.&nbsp; And, as David, in the
+fifty-first Psalm, appears to have comparatively lost sight of
+his sin against his country, the family of Uriah, and of all the
+consequences of it, in the depth of the feeling which he had of
+his sin against God; so the love of Christ took possession of
+Jolin&rsquo;s mind; and in its length, and breadth, and depth,
+and height, so filled his thoughts, and so absorbed his soul,
+that every other subject sank into nothing.</p>
+<p>It will be manifest, that, in the explanation of all these
+subjects, there was a constant repetition of points before
+explained, and reference to many texts which are not
+noticed.&nbsp; Jolin did not talk much; and indeed it was chiefly
+in answer to a question, that he made any observation at
+all.&nbsp; When a passage of Scripture was read to him, he would
+often take the Bible and read it over slowly to himself, then
+observe carefully whether a paper to mark it was so placed, that
+he might find the place again, and return the book with some
+slight expression of his feelings.&nbsp; In this way did he seem
+to lay up portions of the Divine word, upon which he might
+reflect in his solitary hours.&nbsp; His manner was always calm
+and self-possessed; and his answers to questions were such as
+showed that he clearly understood the grounds upon which the
+answer was to be made.&nbsp; He was never beside the mark in a
+reply.&nbsp; But it was quite evident that all the lessons which
+were taught him, and which had the warrant of scriptural
+authority, sank into his heart, and that he found in them that
+which corresponded with his own experience.</p>
+<p>The next day, the 26th, he was visited by Mr. Dallas, one of
+the chaplains of the Bishop of Winchester, and by Mr. Durell, the
+rector of St. Saviour&rsquo;s parish.&nbsp; These two clergymen
+have each given public and repeated testimony to the state of
+mind in which they found Jolin.&nbsp; The visit of Mr. Dallas was
+chiefly occupied in an endeavour to search out the reality of the
+foundation upon which the hope of the penitent rested, and he
+viewed it as most satisfactory.&nbsp; Mr. Durell visited Jolin at
+the request of the Dean of Jersey, in whose parish the prison is
+situated.&nbsp; Mr. Durell says in his little work, &ldquo;I came
+to perform <a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+26</span>a difficult and unpleasant duty, which, indeed, I could
+not refuse.&nbsp; I mention this indifference,&rdquo; he adds,
+&ldquo;to show, that when I first repaired to this poor
+man&rsquo;s dungeon, there must have been something very powerful
+to have affected me to such a degree.&rdquo;&nbsp; He at first
+brought Dodd&rsquo;s Prison Thoughts with him to read to Jolin;
+but, on the suggestion of a friend, he changed this book for the
+Bible.&nbsp; Mr. Durell visited Jolin many times: and he has
+published an account of each visit.&nbsp; His remarks are candid,
+kind, and very clear as to his belief of the real change of
+Jolin&rsquo;s character.&nbsp; The facts which he narrates are
+some of them in the highest degree interesting.&nbsp; &ldquo;I
+have sympathised,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;in Jolin&rsquo;s cell,
+in all the horrors of his situation.&nbsp; I have shuddered at
+his nefarious parricide; I have rejoiced in his unfeigned
+repentance; and I have been soothed by his delightful
+anticipations of a blessed immortality.&rdquo;&nbsp; He adds, on
+one occasion, &ldquo;I never saw a man more free from
+enthusiasm.&nbsp; All his religion centred in the atonement of
+Christ.&rdquo;&nbsp; On another, &ldquo;I never heard him
+complain of the evidence against him, nor of his sentence; never
+did an expression of murmur or of invective escape from
+him.&rdquo;&nbsp; He says again, &ldquo;This visit lasted three
+hours; than which none ever made a deeper impression on me, or
+will perhaps be more conducive to my own spiritual
+improvement.&rdquo;&nbsp; He adds again, &ldquo;It may, perhaps,
+be supposed, that it was the dread of death which had excited his
+religious fervour; on the contrary, those apprehensions ceased
+from the moment that holy principle originated in his heart:
+neither was it that instinctive fear of dying that drove him into
+religious inquiries and self-examination.&nbsp; That fear may,
+indeed, have caused a wicked man to be sorry for his sin; but the
+growth in knowledge, in grace, and in so many gifts of the
+Spirit, was so extraordinary and so unprecedented, that I cannot
+account for it as having been the result of natural causes
+operating on an ardent and distracted mind.&nbsp; I am not only
+impartial, but am conscious that I am as free from superstition
+and enthusiasm <a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+27</span>as any man; yet I feel inwardly convinced, that
+Jolin&rsquo;s conversation had something in it more than human;
+and that Providence assisted him with an imperceptible, though
+equally miraculous, working of the Holy Spirit; to the end that
+his edifying repentance might operate like a distinguished
+example to open the bosom of many an infidel to an examination of
+the sacred truths of Christianity, and to persuade the
+thoughtless and profligate, that, unless they abandon their
+dangerous course, they will be doomed to certain
+destruction.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>But it may be interesting to lay before your readers the last
+communication of this kind friend, when Jolin was about to be
+executed.&nbsp; It was in a letter to one of the ministers then
+with him in the prison.</p>
+<blockquote><p style="text-align: right">St. Saviour&rsquo;s,
+Oct. 3, 1829, 9 o&rsquo;clock in the morning.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Sir,&mdash;The deep, the Christian interest, which I
+feel for our departing brother, induces me to write you a short
+note.&nbsp; Tell him that I pray that the strength which is
+imparted from on high may not fail him in his last hour, and that
+the sufferings of the Saviour may inspire him with religious
+courage to bear his sufferings.&nbsp; Tell him also, that since
+we are not to meet again on earth, he departs with my blessing
+and my prayers; and that, I trust, we shall meet again where
+every tear shall be dried from every eye.&nbsp; The sixteenth
+chapter of St. John is most particularly adapted to his awful
+situation.&nbsp; The thirty-third verse is a glorious precept and
+example for him: &lsquo;These things have I spoken to you, that
+in me ye might have peace.&nbsp; In the world ye shall have
+tribulation: but, be of good cheer, I have overcome the
+world.&rsquo;</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">&ldquo;I am, sir, yours truly,<br />
+&ldquo;<span class="smcap">E. Durell</span>.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>On the last Sunday of his life, Jolin had many visitors.&nbsp;
+His mind seemed gradually to ripen for eternity.&nbsp; He gained
+every day clearer views of his sinful nature, of the power of
+Divine grace, of the nature of faith, of the immensity of the
+love of Christ, and of the offer of a free <a
+name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 28</span>salvation
+made to himself.&nbsp; He could now trace very distinctly, in the
+various events of his life, the manifestations of the great mercy
+of God in his favour.&nbsp; The returning prodigal (Luke xv.) he
+felt more and more to represent himself and his own case.&nbsp;
+He saw his heavenly Father waiting to be gracious to him.&nbsp;
+He had scarcely time to offer up his supplications, when he
+found, that before he called, God had answered, and while he was
+yet speaking, He had heard.&nbsp; There was one circumstance
+connected with the visit of this day which is, in itself,
+striking.&nbsp; The last trial was to take place on the
+morrow.&nbsp; He had, under the direction of his legal adviser,
+prepared a paper, which was to be read to the jury.&nbsp; There
+was still, therefore, a possibility of his escape from the
+punishment of death.&nbsp; This latter circumstance became a
+subject of conversation, and an earnest hope was expressed on the
+part of his visitor, that, if he was set at liberty, he would be
+supported by Divine grace, and that he would be enabled to live
+to the glory of God.&nbsp; His answer to this observation clearly
+showed how well he understood the power of the grace of God, and
+how entirely his heart was stayed upon that as his only support
+in every emergency of his life, whether he were to escape from
+prison, or be led to the scaffold.&nbsp; He observed, &ldquo;Sir,
+the man that is fit to <i>die</i>, is fit to <i>live</i>.&nbsp; I
+have known what it is to have a heart as hard as a diamond; but I
+now feel I have a heart of flesh.&rdquo;&nbsp; His persuasion was
+thus very clearly expressed, that the same power which had
+changed his heart from stone to flesh, could and would keep him
+on his way; and that, depending upon Divine grace, he need not
+fear whether life or death were presented to him.&nbsp; In this
+calm and confiding posture of mind, he seemed continually to
+rest.&nbsp; All his hope and trust were grounded on his
+Saviour.&nbsp; He had come to the full experience of the
+psalmist&mdash;&ldquo;It is good for me to draw near to
+God.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>A hymn of Cowper&rsquo;s, which had been given to him, seemed
+very much to have arrested his attention this day.&nbsp; It is on
+the subject of the fountain opened for sin, and for uncleanness.
+(Zech. xiii. 1.)</p>
+<blockquote><p><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+29</span>&ldquo;There is a fountain filled with blood,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Drawn from Immanuel&rsquo;s veins;<br />
+And sinners plunged beneath that flood<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Lose all their guilty stains.</p>
+<p>The dying thief rejoiced to see<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; That fountain in his day;<br />
+And there have I, though vile as he,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Wash&rsquo;d all my sins away.</p>
+<p>E&rsquo;er since, by faith, I saw the stream<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Thy flowing wounds supply,<br />
+Redeeming love has been my theme,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; And shall be till I die.</p>
+<p>Then, in a nobler, sweeter song,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; I&rsquo;ll sing thy power to save,<br />
+When this poor lisping, stammering tongue<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Lies silent in the grave.</p>
+<p>Lord, I believe thou hast prepared<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; (Unworthy though I be)<br />
+For me a blood-bought free reward,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; A golden harp for me.</p>
+<p>&rsquo;Tis strung and tuned for endless years,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; And formed by power divine,<br />
+To sound in God the Father&rsquo;s ears,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; No other name but thine.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>This hymn he was very fond of, and he repeated it on his way
+to the scaffold.&nbsp; It had been an object to store the mind of
+Jolin with subjects which might, by the Divine blessing, be
+sources of encouragement and of comfort to him when left alone
+with his Bible, or in the silent hours of the night.&nbsp; The
+following points, in addition to those already enumerated, had
+been dwelt upon; and now, as the opportunities for visiting his
+prison by the individual who proposed them, had drawn to a close,
+some of them were at this time again earnestly pressed upon his
+attention.&nbsp; These were, the &ldquo;tender mercy&rdquo; of
+God, (Luke i. 78,) <a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+30</span>by which alone the Day-spring from on high visits the
+soul, and by which it is brought out of its state of natural
+darkness; the view of Christ touched with the feeling of our
+infirmities, (Heb. iv. 15, 16,) and encouraging us to go with
+boldness to the Throne of grace; the invitation to ask with
+importunity for the Holy Spirit (Luke xi. 1&ndash;11); the
+intercession of Jesus for his people (Rom. viii. 34); the
+promise, that God who had not spared his own Son would with him
+freely give us all things (Rom. viii. 32); the remedy against all
+trouble to be found in faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (John xiv.
+1); the parting address and prayer of Christ (John xiv. xv. xvi.
+xvii.); and the engagement that nothing shall separate the
+believer from the love of Christ (Rom. viii. 35&ndash;39).&nbsp;
+To this was added, as much examination as to the working of these
+doctrines on his heart, the degree in which they were felt, and
+their practical bearing, as the time and circumstances would
+admit.&nbsp; All these subjects Jolin appeared to understand and
+to receive; and if he could not enumerate them as distinct
+articles of his religious creed, yet he seemed fully to
+comprehend and to receive them as the testimony of God.</p>
+<p>Monday, the 28th, was the day fixed for his second trial; and
+here he exhibited the character of a real Christian.&nbsp; His
+defence he had written before, and it was as
+follows:&mdash;&ldquo;Gentlemen, whatever may be my fate, I shall
+not die without having to reproach myself for not having quitted
+my father&rsquo;s house.&nbsp; By so doing, I should have avoided
+being the victim in different unhappy affairs that often took
+place between my father and mother, in which I was generally the
+object upon which the weight of their discontent fell.&nbsp; I
+was often obliged to submit to being beaten most severely, and to
+hear language unworthy of being uttered by either father or
+mother.&nbsp; Now, left to myself in the solitude of a dungeon, I
+reflect on times gone by, remembering that I was the only child,
+abandoned to the most deplorable fate.&nbsp; Yet I ought to have
+been wiser, and not followed the example of my nearer relations,
+the source of my misfortune.&nbsp; But now that respectable
+ministers of the Gospel have taken the trouble to visit me, and
+<a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 31</span>point out
+my duty towards God and towards man, I rest contented.&nbsp; I
+pray to God to pardon the horrible, but never premeditated crime
+of which I am guilty.&nbsp; If I ever had an intention of killing
+my poor father, I had a very favourable opportunity of doing so,
+when he was stretched upon a bed of sickness, unable to help
+himself.&nbsp; I was then the only person who took care of him,
+and administered to his wants, as there was no other person
+besides myself in the house.&nbsp; I beg pardon of all those whom
+I may have willingly or unwillingly offended.&nbsp; Gentlemen,
+after this declaration, I submit myself entirely to your
+wisdom.&nbsp; It is you who are going to decide my fate.&nbsp; I
+am ready to meet it, and I will submit to your judgment without a
+murmur.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Ph. G. Jolin</span>.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>This paper is a translation from the French, in which language
+it was originally written.&nbsp; Whether it is accurately
+translated, or whether it was written by Jolin himself, or by his
+advocate, it is impossible to judge.&nbsp; The passage in it
+which relates to his parents, if his own, is liable to
+objection.&nbsp; The faults of a parent, especially faults so
+awfully punished, ought not to have made a part of his
+defence.&nbsp; If the language is that of his advocate, it is
+only the language of legal justification, and the facts are both
+true and of much weight for the extenuation of his crime.</p>
+<p>It is said, that during his trial, his calmness was
+remarkable.&nbsp; His lips apparently were employed in prayer,
+and this he afterwards confessed was the case.&nbsp; He prayed
+for himself, that he might be strengthened to go through his
+trial, and also for his judges and his jury.&nbsp; There was no
+effrontery in his look; but, on the contrary, the appearance of
+deep humiliation.&nbsp; For four hours, during which time his
+trial lasted, he never lifted his eyes from the ground.&nbsp; On
+his return from the trial, he had to encounter the indignation of
+the populace against his crime.&nbsp; On the former occasion, a
+woman had cried, &ldquo;Ah, le scelerat!&rdquo; which had a good
+deal affected him.&nbsp; This time he addressed the people from
+the prison gates, and when they observed that he was half dead
+from fatigue, he said, amongst other things, &ldquo;I have a
+strength within <a name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+32</span>me ye know not.&nbsp; This supports me.&nbsp; Weep not
+for me, weep for yourselves.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>During the following days of his life, he received continual
+visits from a variety of persons.&nbsp; On the 28th, the Rev. P.
+Filluel; on the 29th, from both the chaplains of the Bishop of
+Winchester; Mr. Dallas was indeed as assiduous in his attendance
+at the gaol, as his many other duties at that time would permit;
+and all these gentlemen expressed the strongest conviction of the
+reality of Jolin&rsquo;s conversion.&nbsp; Many ministers, and
+others beside, very kindly came, desiring to impart to him some
+spiritual gift.&nbsp; He received all gladly; but more especially
+those whose conversation led him to believe that they came to him
+in the fulness of Christian love.&nbsp; His discernment on this
+point was a striking evidence of the clear views of doctrine
+which he had attained.&nbsp; He perceived and felt the inadequacy
+of those religious systems which were not connected with deep and
+experimental views of personal corruption; and with exclusive
+dependence for salvation upon the atonement of Jesus
+Christ.&nbsp; With a sense of gratitude for the instruments made
+use of in awakening his mind, Jolin appeared remarkably
+independent of any outward help.&nbsp; He was by no means like a
+man who hung upon another&rsquo;s teaching, but upon that of
+God.&nbsp; It was on this account that he was, perhaps, able to
+bear without injury the multifarious instruction which he
+received.&nbsp; His own language was most satisfactory; he always
+spoke of the salvation procured for him as a free and unmerited
+gift of God; and dwelt upon the peculiar manifestation of
+God&rsquo;s grace to himself, inasmuch as he had twice saved him
+from shipwreck when he was in an entirely unprepared state to
+meet death, and now he had been brought to that prison that he
+might learn the way of salvation.&nbsp; His expressions of the
+sense of his own unworthiness were clear and strong.&nbsp; He
+told one of his friends that he had nothing to offer to God, but
+his heart; that all his repentance, all his resolutions, all his
+short conflict with the carnal heart, could never expiate his
+sin.&nbsp; On another occasion he said, that he was not worthy to
+pick up the crumbs under his Master&rsquo;s table; and on
+another, that Christ was his only hope; that <a
+name="page33"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 33</span>He had paid
+his ransom, and that He would receive him into glory.&nbsp; With
+another class of visitors, those of his family and friends, he
+was equally decided in declaring what great things God had done
+for his soul, and what necessity there was that they should turn
+and repent if they would be saved.&nbsp; Indeed, a discourse of
+this kind had made some of them think him insane.&nbsp; He had
+told his relations who had come to him, that he was formerly
+unclean and unholy; that they were so at that moment.&nbsp; He
+therefore entreated them to apply to <i>Him</i> who had cast out
+the unclean devils into the swine, to cleanse their souls.&nbsp;
+On all occasions, when he could, he manifested the same desire to
+instruct others, and lead them to that refuge which he had found
+so precious to his own soul.</p>
+<p>On Thursday, October 1, Mr. Durell records a very interesting
+visit which he paid the prisoner: interesting, as it showed the
+state of mind in which he found him.&nbsp; &ldquo;As we
+approached the passage,&rdquo; says Mr. Durell, &ldquo;we could
+hear the loud ejaculations of the prisoner&rsquo;s
+prayers.&rdquo;&nbsp; The gaoler observed, that he always found
+him thus employed when he was left alone in the cell.&nbsp; Mr.
+Durell read to him the account of our Saviour&rsquo;s death, from
+Matthew xxvii., and concluded with a prayer, at the end of which
+Jolin was much affected.&nbsp; He exhibited, on this occasion,
+the deepest sense of gratitude to all about him; and Mr. Hammond,
+his advocate, who was also present, bore witness to the calmness
+and the change of Jolin&rsquo;s state of mind.&nbsp; To the
+latter gentleman, he, on that occasion, expressed his sense of
+the great services rendered to him on his trial.&nbsp; He sat up
+on his bed, and clasping both his hands together, said most
+earnestly, &ldquo;Mr. Hammond, I thank you over and over again
+for the pains you have taken for me.&nbsp; I regret that I have
+nothing to give to reward you as you deserve.&rdquo;&nbsp; This
+same sense of gratitude led him constantly to express his thanks
+to his gaoler, whose kindness and attention, those who were so
+often going out and in the prison can fully testify.&nbsp; But it
+was not on this occasion alone, for the evidence afforded to his
+state of mind was very remarkable.&nbsp; The acting
+lieutenant-governor, <a name="page34"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 34</span>the dean, the mayor, a leading
+medical man who came to inquire into his insanity, clergymen,
+dissenting ministers, his advocate, his relations, his
+attendants, all appear to have come away from the prison with a
+common conviction, that the power of God had been at work in
+producing the wonderful change which they witnessed.</p>
+<p>On the day previous to his execution, the event to which I
+have referred with regard to his relations occurred.&nbsp; They,
+not understanding the nature of the change which had taken place
+in him, and, judging from reports of blows which he had received,
+and other circumstances, endeavoured to establish the plea of
+insanity; and they brought a very eminent medical practitioner to
+examine into his state.&nbsp; But this interference was followed
+by the best consequences; for, whilst on the one hand it was
+clearly ascertained that Jolin was in no state of derangement, or
+delusion, or enthusiastic fervour; on the other, the clearest and
+most satisfactory evidence was given of his real state of
+mind.&nbsp; After this, the Dean of Jersey kindly attended to
+administer the sacrament to him.&nbsp; Before he received the
+holy communion, he underwent an examination; and to the dean, and
+three other clergymen, he gave, in answer to their questions, a
+reason of the hope that was in him.&nbsp; He explained with such
+clearness the object and the nature of his faith, testified so
+deep a sense of his own unworthiness, and showed so good a
+feeling towards all his fellow-creatures, that they had not, any
+of them, a doubt of his fitness to partake of the feast prepared
+for the penitent sinner.&nbsp; This examination, which was
+peculiarly solemn and affecting to Jolin, looking, as most of the
+people of that island do, with deep veneration on the high and
+sacred office of the dean, was remarkably calculated to detect
+any thing which might be suspicious in his views, or in his real
+state.&nbsp; Throughout this day, Mr. Hall reports, that Jolin
+was longing to depart, and to be with Christ, saying, &ldquo;The
+hours pass slowly.&rdquo;&nbsp; It was remarked that he must wait
+God&rsquo;s time, who had yet work for him to do in his
+vineyard.&nbsp; And most faithfully was every hour devoted <a
+name="page35"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 35</span>to the duties
+of his immediate calling.&nbsp; He warned, rebuked, exhorted,
+with all long-suffering and patience.&nbsp; He said he thought it
+would be better for him to die on the scaffold, than quietly in
+his cell, as he might thereby glorify God by his patience, and be
+an example to all of the fatal consequences of indulgence in
+sin.</p>
+<p>Mr. Durell has given an account of his last visit to Jolin on
+the evening of this day.&nbsp; He chose the same subject to read
+to him as on the day before, but from another Evangelist.&nbsp;
+It was Luke xxiii., the account of our Saviour&rsquo;s
+crucifixion.&nbsp; During the reading, Jolin&rsquo;s sensibility
+was greatly excited, and his half-broken sobs were heard.&nbsp;
+Mr. Durell, thinking it proper to check this state of mind,
+pointed out the sufferings of Christ as a matter of holy joy, and
+threatened to lay down the book, and read no more, if Jolin
+continued to feel so much.&nbsp; Mr. Durell, wishing to avoid any
+thing which might discompose Jolin, carefully omitted making any
+comment on the most affecting part of our Saviour&rsquo;s
+sufferings.&nbsp; He, on the other hand, sought to comfort him by
+an application of the promise, that &ldquo;they who sow in tears,
+shall reap in joy;&rdquo; and by the prospect of paradise held
+out to the penitent thief.&nbsp; He adds, in conclusion,
+&ldquo;In the course of my profession, I have seen many
+individuals on the brink of the grave; but never before did I
+witness such coolness and such self-command&mdash;a scene so
+holy, so edifying, so sublime.&nbsp; Had he been in the full
+bloom of human prosperity, and with the prospect of adding half a
+century longer to his existence, he could not have been more
+collected.&nbsp; I was myself almost falling into a delusion
+contrary to the evidence of my own senses.&nbsp; I could not
+believe that one so near his end could retain so much courage, or
+such contempt of ignominy and death.&nbsp; I could not believe
+that one so gentle, and now so well instructed in religious
+duties, could have been ever capable of committing a crime for
+which he deserved to die&mdash;that he could have been a
+murderer.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>On the night previous to his execution, the kind relation who
+had first visited him in the prison, and brought him <a
+name="page36"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 36</span>the first
+message of salvation, in bringing him the New Testament, and Mr.
+Gallachin, an excellent minister of the church, sat up with
+him.&nbsp; They endeavoured to sing a hymn, and, feeling the
+imperfection of the service, he said, &ldquo;To-morrow I shall
+join in very different singing from this.&rdquo;&nbsp; At
+half-past one in the morning, he fell into a kind of dozing
+stupor for an hour, but did not sleep.&nbsp; During that time he
+was heard repeating the fifty-first Psalm, and also repeatedly
+exclaiming, &ldquo;Glory to the Lamb! glory to our Lord Jesus
+Christ!&rdquo; and when he awoke, he said that he had seen
+glorious things in a dream.&nbsp; He also said, between sleeping
+and waking, as it appeared, &ldquo;There is now, therefore, no
+condemnation for them that are in Christ Jesus.&rdquo;&nbsp; At
+waking he requested that a hymn might be sung.&nbsp; The next
+morning Mr. Hall went to him at half-past six
+o&rsquo;clock.&nbsp; When he entered his cell, Jolin said,
+&ldquo;Oh, Mr. Hall, I am so glad to see you; I am so
+happy.&nbsp; I have slept four hours, and the rest of the night
+we have spent in such delightful conversation.&nbsp; I feel so
+strong, but I will wait patiently the Lord&rsquo;s
+time.&rdquo;&nbsp; The day before, I have observed, he thought
+the hours passed slowly, he was so anxious to depart and to be
+with Christ.&nbsp; Mr. Hall took occasion to warn him, that he
+had still a work to do.&nbsp; He must not only glorify his
+Saviour by his conduct, and by his patient resignation, but he
+must again speak a word of warning to those about him.&nbsp; And
+he assured him that he might be able to do more for the praise
+and honour of his Master in his death upon the scaffold, by
+bearing testimony to his own exceeding wickedness, and to the
+unsearchable mercy and love of Christ, than if he had died in a
+more private manner.&nbsp; To this he assented, and took the
+resolution of doing all in his power.&nbsp; &ldquo;Great,
+indeed,&rdquo; says Mr. Hall, &ldquo;were the grace and support
+which he enjoyed.&nbsp; He felt sick at breakfast time, and could
+not eat; but, to oblige me, he said he would try.&nbsp; About
+nine o&rsquo;clock his irons were taken off; and I could not help
+thinking of this as symbolical of that liberty which soon, when
+passed beyond this life, he would enjoy for ever in the presence
+of his <a name="page37"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+37</span>Saviour.&nbsp; Jolin immediately proposed to me to kneel
+down and thank God for what he had done for him; saying, &lsquo;I
+have always before prayed in bed; now I can go on my knees in the
+proper posture for a sinner.&rsquo;&nbsp; Oh, at this time, how
+deep were his confessions of sin, committed both in thought,
+word, and deed; his acknowledgment of mercy through Jesus Christ;
+his expressions of dependence upon Him for grace, to keep him in
+his fiery trial, and to open for him the kingdom of heaven!&nbsp;
+When he drank his milk, he said, &lsquo;Oh! God, I thank thee
+that thou hast been so merciful and good to me, who have been so
+great a sinner!&rsquo;&nbsp; His hand was never cold, and his
+pulse was always regular to the end.&nbsp; I never witnessed one
+to whom the Lord was pleased to give a stronger faith, which was
+proved by his conduct to the last.&nbsp; He sat calmly speaking
+and listening till about half-past twelve; when he left the
+prison, leaning on me and Mr. Gallachin.&nbsp; An immense
+concourse of people presented itself at the prison gates, and
+their rush and noise were greater than we expected.&nbsp; The
+newspaper account says&mdash;&lsquo;He was calm and collected,
+walked with steadiness, and evinced throughout the most decorous
+firmness.&nbsp; We could not perceive that he trembled.&nbsp; His
+mind seemed quite absorbed in religious exercises; and, from all
+we can learn, there was good and satisfactory evidence that he
+was a true penitent, and relied on the Divine
+mercy.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
+<p>As he was leaving the gaol he was heard to repeat the fourth
+verse of the twenty-third Psalm, &ldquo;Yea, though I walk
+through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil;
+for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff they comfort
+me.&rdquo;&nbsp; Mr. Hall continues: &ldquo;The noise of the
+people prevented my being heard by Jolin, who walked as firmly as
+myself: I therefore opened my hymn-book, and pointed out to him
+the sufficiency of the Redeemer, in one of those hymns which I
+had previously chosen for his perusal.&nbsp; The hymn chosen was
+one beginning&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&lsquo;He lives, the great Redeemer lives!<br />
+What joy the blest assurance gives!<br />
+<a name="page38"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 38</span>And now,
+before his Father, God,<br />
+Pleads the full merit of his blood.</p>
+<p>In every dark, distressful hour,<br />
+When sin and Satan join their power,<br />
+Let this dear hope repel the dart,<br />
+That Jesus bears us on his heart.&rsquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>&ldquo;He told me, that he did not mind the people, that they
+were poor worms; that he would endeavour to warn them from the
+scaffold, for they were standing on the brink of the pit.&nbsp;
+We mounted the steepest part of the gallows hill.&nbsp; He said,
+his Saviour had toiled up Calvary with a cross, which he ought to
+be thankful that he had not to bear; and that Jesus Christ had
+done this for <i>his</i> sake, whereas, he was receiving the due
+reward of his transgression.&nbsp; This reflection seemed to give
+new wings to his exertions in pressing up the rock.&nbsp; I think
+that a worse place of ascent could not have been chosen.&nbsp;
+When we arrived at the summit, the Greffier read his sentence
+aloud, and Mr. Gallachin prayed most fervently with him in
+French.&nbsp; After the prayer, he ascended the platform with Mr.
+Gallachin and myself, and addressed the people in French, as you
+will see by the account in the newspaper.&nbsp; But the account
+is deficient in one most essential point.&nbsp; He urged the
+people by the <i>love</i> of <i>Christ</i>, whom he had
+crucified, and whom they were crucifying by their
+sins.&rdquo;&nbsp; The substance of his warning was on the
+subject of intemperance, Sabbath-breaking, the neglect of God and
+of religion; and it was addressed principally to parents and to
+the young.&nbsp; These warnings he twice delivered; once before,
+and once after the rope was fastened round his neck.&nbsp;
+&ldquo;Although I do not accurately remember,&rdquo; Mr. Hall
+continues, &ldquo;the words of any of his speeches, I can safely
+say, that he expressed his conviction that the work which had
+taken place in his heart had been effected by no power or will of
+his own, but by a sovereign act of Divine grace.&nbsp; Jolin then
+read aloud some verses from the Testament, which sufficiently
+indicate the view which <a name="page39"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 39</span>he took both of the nature of his
+change, and of the source from whence it sprang.&nbsp; They are
+taken from 1 Pet. i. 3&ndash;5: &lsquo;Blessed be the God and
+Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant
+mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the
+resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance
+incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved
+in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith
+unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last
+time.&rsquo;&nbsp; To these verses he was particularly
+partial.&nbsp; He then spoke to me, and told me that he had full
+confidence in the sufficiency of the blood of Christ to blot out
+all his sins; and that He who had loved him so much as to shed
+his blood for him, and had kept him to that hour stedfast and
+immoveable, would receive him into glory.&nbsp; When the cap was
+drawn over his face, I told him not to dread the momentary pain,
+for soon he would be in the presence of his Saviour.&nbsp; He
+pressed my hand, and said he was not afraid; for he knew that He
+would take him unto himself.&nbsp; I told him that I would pray
+that his sufferings might be short, and went down.&rdquo;&nbsp;
+Mr. Gallachin then read a part of the Burial Service, until the
+fatal moment.&nbsp; His sufferings appeared not to be great, and
+were of brief duration.&nbsp; &ldquo;Whilst I was in
+prayer,&rdquo; Mr. Hall adds, &ldquo;the drop fell, and our poor
+brother I knew had entered into the presence of his
+Redeemer.&nbsp; The women around me screamed out, &lsquo;The Lord
+have mercy upon his poor soul!&rsquo;&nbsp; I could not but pray
+that their souls might find the same mercy.&nbsp; He died without
+a struggle.&nbsp; I never saw him after I pressed his hand when
+alive, as I ascended the hill through the crowd, and was spared
+seeing his mortal remains.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Thus ended the course of a young man, whose history is a
+solemn memorial, not only of the awful effects of a bad
+education, and of the wretchedness of sin, but also of the
+wonderful compassion of God.&nbsp; Much of what has been narrated
+may appear almost incredible to some readers; and many of those,
+especially, who are justly suspicions of death-bed repentances,
+may be led to doubt <a name="page40"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+40</span>how far the work of this young man&rsquo;s conversion
+was complete, and whether, if he had been permitted to live, he
+would have lived as he has died.&nbsp; If, however, he was really
+converted in heart to God, the observation which he himself made
+must be applied to his own case: &ldquo;The man that is fit to
+die is fit to live.&rdquo;&nbsp; The same grace which brought him
+into the fold of Christ would have kept him in all his way; so
+that the enemy of his soul should not have overpowered him.&nbsp;
+And there is, as before mentioned, the most remarkable
+concurrence of testimony as to Jolin&rsquo;s state at the time of
+his death.&nbsp; Not only Mr. Hall, Mr. Gallachin, and many
+others, bear witness to the facts; but the public voice has
+acknowledged the wonderful change which took place in him.&nbsp;
+One person, <i>not</i> a believer in revelation, but who stood by
+Jolin on the gallows hill, and witnessed his conduct, came to a
+minister, and acknowledged, that &ldquo;there must be something
+in religion to support a man in such a manner; and that he had
+therefore determined to attend a place of worship, and to bring
+up his children in the fear of God.&rdquo;&nbsp; Mr. Hall says,
+&ldquo;I have never had a doubt on my mind as to the reality of
+the change.&nbsp; His conduct in the court; his complete deadness
+to the things of time and sense, and this even when his friends
+seemed so anxious to save him from an ignominious death, were so
+many pleasing testimonies that he was really risen with Christ,
+and that his affections were set upon things above.&nbsp; God did
+indeed work mightily in him: though last, he was one of the
+first.&nbsp; He seemed so convinced of sin, and to have such
+simple dependence upon the truth and firm foundation of
+Christ&rsquo;s promises, and he showed so abundantly that these
+feelings were not merely talked into his head, that I always
+returned delighted with my visit to him.&nbsp; I used to pray
+instantly with him that he might not be deceiving himself, nor be
+deceived by Satan, or any of us; and I can say, as far as I was
+capable of judging, that his was a real work of Divine
+grace.&rdquo;&nbsp; The testimony of the editor of the Jersey
+newspaper, also, while it is beyond all suspicion of enthusiasm,
+and does not even exhibit the proof of a <a
+name="page41"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 41</span>tolerably
+distinct view of the real foundation on which Jolin stood, is a
+most satisfactory testimony of the reality of this change.&nbsp;
+He says, &ldquo;We are not amongst those who would hastily give
+credence to the genuineness of conversion in the cases of great
+criminals, or who approve of religious ecstasies in the short
+interval between the commission of dreadful enormities, and the
+violent death awarded by law; we do not think it desirable that,
+while so many good men, after a long life of exemplary piety,
+approach their last hour with solemn apprehensions, such as have
+lived in a course of profligate vice should boast of triumphant
+feelings and peculiar joy on their way to the scaffold, where
+they are to be suddenly compelled into the presence of their
+Creator and Divine Judge;&mdash;but, in the instance before us,
+we have much satisfaction in believing that a real change of
+heart had taken place, before a change of worlds was
+experienced.&nbsp; In his last days, Jolin evinced much solidity
+of mind on the subject most important to him: his conduct was
+marked by the most becoming propriety; and if he expressed a
+confident hope of acceptance before God, it was accompanied with
+humility, and, as far as man can judge, with sincere sorrow for
+his offences.&rdquo;&nbsp; The rapid attainment of Divine
+knowledge, the simple belief of the truths of the Bible, the
+consistent walk in that which he believed to be the will of God,
+are fruits which can be ascribed only to the grace and Spirit of
+God.&nbsp; Where the Lord of all power and might is pleased to
+exercise his sovereignty, who shall say that the work of many
+years may not be produced in a few weeks; or, as in the case of
+the thief upon the cross, in a much shorter time?&nbsp; The case
+of the thief on the cross is one in which the probabilities,
+before-hand, of repentance, were not so great; and the evidences
+of his real conversion are scarcely more complete, except the
+incidental circumstance of the testimony of our Lord.&nbsp; Both
+of these criminals felt sorrow for their sins, confessed them to
+men, acknowledged them to God, and owned the justice of their
+condemnation; both testified the sincerity of their <a
+name="page42"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 42</span>faith: but,
+if the thief did this under circumstances more trying to his
+sincerity than those of Jolin, it is also to be remembered, that
+he saw the Lord of life; and that to Jolin alone, therefore, the
+language applied, &ldquo;Blessed are they that have not seen, and
+yet have believed.&rdquo;&nbsp; I know of no mark of true
+conversion which was absent from the case of Jolin.&nbsp; His
+faith was clear and strong.&nbsp; It lifted him above the world,
+and, wrought by love, it gave him courage, and zeal, and
+love.&nbsp; He went forward in implicit dependence upon Divine
+grace, and pursued, as was permitted him after his change, a
+holy, humble, consistent course; and, with the cap upon his head,
+and the rope round his neck, he could say with calmness, that
+&ldquo;he was not afraid, for he knew that his Saviour would take
+him to himself.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>But it may still be said, How do we know that Jolin was
+sincere in all that he said, or that he was not under delusion in
+what he felt?&nbsp; To this question the reply has been, I think,
+already offered in these pages&mdash;by pointing to the workings
+of his mind, and the consistency of his conduct.&nbsp; And here
+we must leave the case till the last great day.</p>
+<p>In the meanwhile, let us learn from this history, some of the
+lessons which it is calculated to teach.</p>
+<p>The first of these is, the <i>misery and danger of a state of
+sin</i>.&nbsp; St. Paul, in describing the consequences of a
+state of sin, says, in an appeal to the Roman converts, (vi. 21,)
+&ldquo;What part had ye then in those things whereof ye are now
+ashamed; for the end of those things is death.&rdquo;&nbsp; That
+is, sin yields no real <i>fruit</i>; it produces shame; and the
+end of it will be <i>death</i>.&nbsp; Every Christian feels the
+truth of this statement, as respects himself; and it is the case
+with all other men, although they know it not.&nbsp; What, for
+instance, is the usual fruit of drunkenness? disease,
+quarrelling, and loss of one kind or another.&nbsp; The drunkard
+is usually a blasphemer, hard-hearted, and cruel, as he proves
+himself to his wife and children, starving or ill-treating them
+to gratify his own lust.&nbsp; His habits of drunkenness make him
+a bad child, a bad neighbour, a disgrace in himself, and a plague
+to others.&nbsp; So it is more or less <a name="page43"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 43</span>with the followers of every
+sin.&nbsp; Sin, then, brings no real fruit, and the end of it
+will be eternal death; for it is written, &ldquo;The wicked shall
+be turned into hell, and all the people that forget
+God.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;As surely, therefore, as a man sows, so
+shall he also reap; he that soweth to the flesh, shall of the
+flesh reap corruption.&rdquo;&nbsp; How awful is the history of
+Jolin&rsquo;s father!&nbsp; His life how disgraceful, his death
+how dreadful!&nbsp; Would the sinner who reads this be content to
+come to such an end?&nbsp; But to this, in his present state, he
+is every moment liable.&nbsp; Let the sinner remember, that he
+who called this poor wretch to judgment at a moment&rsquo;s
+warning, may say to himself, &ldquo;This night thy soul is
+required of thee.&rdquo;&nbsp; The probability of thus dying is
+commonly passed over; and it is the hope of a sinner that he
+shall still live to repent, as Jolin did.&nbsp; Yet how great are
+the chances against this!&nbsp; Many a man has been deluded by
+such a hope, and perished in his transgression.&nbsp; He has
+looked to some case like this, or like that of the thief on the
+cross, and delayed his repentance, till, in an hour when he has
+not looked for it, he has been &ldquo;driven away in his
+wickedness.&rdquo;&nbsp; But in this, as it is said by an old
+writer, &ldquo;The perverseness of our nature may be seen, in
+that this one case, that of the penitent thief, serveth us to
+looseness of life, in hope of the like: whereas, we might better
+reason, that is <i>but</i> one, and that extraordinary; and
+besides this one, there is not one more in all the Bible; and
+that for this one that sped, a thousand thousands have
+missed.&nbsp; And what folly it is to put ourselves in a way in
+which so many have miscarried; to put ourselves in the hands of a
+physician, that hath murdered so many, going clean against our
+own sense and reason!&nbsp; Whereas, in other cases we always
+lean to that which is most ordinary, and conclude not the spring
+from <i>one</i> swallow.&nbsp; It is as if a man should spur his
+ass till he speak, because Balaam&rsquo;s ass did once speak; so
+grossly hath the devil bewitched us!&rdquo;&nbsp; Let sinners,
+then, meditate upon their own state, and remember, at the same
+time, the appeal of the Almighty to them to <a
+name="page44"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 44</span>turn again
+and repent.&nbsp; &ldquo;Have I any pleasure at all that the
+wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should
+return from his ways and live?&nbsp; Repent and turn yourselves
+from all your transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your
+ruin.&nbsp; Cast away from you all your transgressions, and make
+you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O house of
+Israel?&nbsp; For I have no pleasure in the death of him that
+dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live
+ye.&rdquo; (Ezek. xviii.)&nbsp; That text which first appeared to
+move Jolin to repentance, may speak to every other
+sinner&mdash;&ldquo;Come now, and let us reason together, saith
+the Lord.&nbsp; Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
+white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as
+wool.&rdquo; (Isa. i. 18.)&nbsp; The same words of encouragement
+may also speak to us, in the language of a merciful Saviour,
+&ldquo;I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to
+repentance.&rdquo;&nbsp; (Matt. ix. 13.)&nbsp; The same promises,
+&ldquo;God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten
+Son, that whosoever believeth on him, should not perish, but have
+everlasting life:&rdquo; and again, &ldquo;There is joy in the
+presence of the angels of God over one sinner that
+repenteth,&rdquo; (Luke xv. 10.)&nbsp; I would say then, again,
+in the language of Peter, &ldquo;Repent ye therefore, and be
+converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of
+refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>A second point of consideration in this history is <i>the
+conversion of Jolin&rsquo;s mind to a sense of religion</i>,
+<i>and the nature of his conversion</i>.&nbsp; Jolin&rsquo;s
+early education, as far as reading and writing, had not been
+altogether neglected; and the daily misery his sins brought with
+them was not without its effect on his mind.&nbsp; But it is
+evident the work of regeneration, the first step in his after
+conversion, had not taken place before he came into prison.&nbsp;
+But when the Holy Spirit brought home the word of God to his
+heart, the change was rapidly effected.&nbsp; A conviction of the
+sinfulness of his nature and habits was at once deeply impressed
+upon his conscience; he waited to see the way of <a
+name="page45"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 45</span>pardon by a
+crucified Redeemer, and the influence of the Holy Ghost
+immediately produced that change in his will and affections which
+always attends real conversion.&nbsp; His whole state of mind
+seemed almost miraculously changed: so that between the
+twenty-third and the twenty-sixth of the same month, in the
+judgment of his legal adviser and others, a complete renovation
+had taken place.&nbsp; In the former state he is described as in
+a distracted condition of mind, suffering unutterable anguish;
+the dread of death being uppermost in his thoughts: in the
+latter, he was calm, placid, resigned, and he had not one wish to
+live. <a name="citation45"></a><a href="#footnote45"
+class="citation">[45]</a></p>
+<p>Although it would be contrary to the facts and spirit of
+Scripture to say, that no conversions of this kind were real and
+complete, every one must acknowledge, that as conversion is
+ordinarily a gradual work, too much caution cannot be exercised
+as to a change accomplished as rapidly as this may appear to have
+been.&nbsp; It may, however, be truly said, that there was a
+remarkable absence of any thing like enthusiasm in his
+state.&nbsp; A dream which occurred in the commencement of his
+religious course will not be conceived to indicate a disordered
+imagination.&nbsp; For some nights he had been dreadfully
+agitated, and could not rest.&nbsp; &ldquo;I dreamed,&rdquo; he
+said, &ldquo;that I was dragged over frightful precipices, till
+at last I was brought, as it were, into the presence of our
+Saviour, and there obtained mercy.&rdquo;&nbsp; This dream so
+harmonized with the spirit of many passages of Scripture pointed
+out to him, that it was not unlikely to occur.&nbsp; In his case,
+as in every other, the first touch of religion on the soul was
+immediate; but the after stages of conversion were
+gradual&mdash;far more so than many others recorded in Scripture;
+and there was time to perceive the regular progress of growth in
+grace.&nbsp; This case, therefore, should not be confounded with
+what are commonly called instantaneous conversions, because
+although compressed into a short period every step of scriptural
+conversion may be traced in it.&nbsp; From first to last, Jolin
+was able to give a reason for the <a name="page46"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 46</span>hope which was in him, and these
+reasons corresponded with the feelings and convictions described
+in the word of God.&nbsp; He felt those convictions of sin on
+which Scripture insists.&nbsp; He found, agreeably also to
+Scripture, nothing in his own state upon which he could depend
+for salvation; and, relying entirely on the merits of the Lord
+Jesus Christ, he found peace and joy in believing.&nbsp; In this
+manner, if his conversion proceeded rapidly, it was not wanting
+in any of those evidences which are the unquestioned fruits of
+the teaching of God.&nbsp; His conduct is the best, and indeed
+the only satisfactory commentary on the whole work.</p>
+<p>A third point worthy of consideration in the history of Jolin,
+is, <i>the means</i> by which it pleased God <i>to open this
+young man&rsquo;s mind</i>; and this, I may venture to affirm,
+was <i>the Holy Scriptures</i>.&nbsp; It was the simple
+exhibition of the fifty-first Psalm, which at first seemed to
+expose his real state to him.&nbsp; It was the promises of the
+New Testament, and the types of the Old, which gave him his first
+clear notion of faith, and which conveyed to his mind a hope of
+pardon.&nbsp; The Scripture then became the subject of his
+meditation day and night.&nbsp; It was as a &ldquo;lamp unto his
+feet, and a light unto his path; a treasure more to be desired
+than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey, and
+the honeycomb.&rdquo;&nbsp; The value of Scripture arising from
+its clearness, authority, and its peculiar power, under God, to
+fasten truth on the soul, are remarkably conspicuous in the case
+of this guilty person.&nbsp; He heard, marked, learned, and
+inwardly digested its all-important truths, and they made him
+wise unto salvation.&nbsp; But in connexion with this, and every
+other means employed, is to be noticed the <i>influence of Divine
+grace</i>.&nbsp; The Almighty power and sovereignty with which
+this was exercised, was frequently acknowledged, and continually
+felt by Jolin.&nbsp; He perceived it in all the remarkable
+circumstances of his life&mdash;in his various escapes from
+death&mdash;in his final allotment&mdash;in the events which
+occurred in the prison.&nbsp; And whilst all this distinguishing
+mercy was shown towards him, he could discover nothing in himself
+<a name="page47"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 47</span>which
+deserved any such remembrance at God&rsquo;s hand.&nbsp; Why was
+he called, and not his father, was one of the points which first
+struck his attention on the visit of his friends.&nbsp; But to
+those around him some other circumstances, illustrating this
+influence, were perhaps more obvious than even to himself.&nbsp;
+The manner in which he was enabled to receive the truths of the
+gospel; the gift of spiritual understanding; the willing heart;
+the subdued spirit, and sanctified heart, were all circumstances
+to be referred only to the sovereign grace of Him who worketh in
+his people to will and to do of his good pleasure.&nbsp;
+&ldquo;O, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and
+knowledge of God!&nbsp; How unsearchable are his judgments, and
+his ways past finding out!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>A fifth lesson to be learned from this history, is the
+<i>benefit of education</i>.&nbsp; Here was a young man most
+unlikely to profit from the early instruction he had received;
+and to what account did it turn?&nbsp; In his worst times he was
+enabled to read the word of God, and this he was led to do in the
+tediousness of his sea watches.&nbsp; In his imprisonment, the
+blessings of his previous learning was incalculable.&nbsp; In his
+last exhortations on the scaffold, he pressed upon his youthful
+auditors the advantages of attendance upon a Sunday school, and
+the public means of instruction.&nbsp; It is impossible to say
+how much, or if any of the preparatory work of religion, had, by
+means of education, been going on in Jolin&rsquo;s mind.&nbsp;
+But information had been given&mdash;a desire for instruction had
+been implanted&mdash;the wretchedness of a sinful course had been
+taught&mdash;the Scriptures had been read&mdash;the scaffolding,
+in fact, had been put together, by which the future edifice might
+be erected.&nbsp; How striking is the lesson of encouragement
+derived from this history, to those who are labouring in the
+school or in the prison.&nbsp; Who could have thought that in
+either case, as it concerned Jolin, the event would have been
+what it was?&nbsp; But who knows what the most untractable child
+may yet become, or how far the seed which is sown, may, even a
+long time hence, produce the desired fruit.&nbsp; &ldquo;In the
+morning sow thy seed, and in the <a name="page48"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 48</span>evening withhold not thine hand, for
+thou knowest not whether shall prosper either this or that, or
+whether they shall both be alike good.&rdquo;&nbsp; We may, in
+our efforts to instruct, meet with many disappointments, but it
+is plainly our duty to proceed, with becoming care indeed, but in
+the remembrance both of God&rsquo;s almighty power to teach the
+heart, and of instances, such as this, in which that power has
+been so remarkably exerted.&nbsp; The state of prisoners is one
+which invites, as it has in general received the peculiar
+commiseration of our countrymen: men are often to be found there
+in Jolin&rsquo;s state of mind.&nbsp; The prison is, perhaps,
+their first resting-place in a career of ignorance, and sin, and
+misery.&nbsp; The visitor may too often, in his researches,
+discover the man, as Mr. Pinel did Jolin, &ldquo;without hope for
+this world or the next,&rdquo; and may lead him to discoveries of
+what, perhaps, never entered his imagination.&nbsp; At all
+events, the circumstances of trial and affliction are those most
+favourable to seriousness of reflection; and this is the course
+by which the sinner is most often led, by the grace of God, to
+turn from the error of his ways, and to seek the hope offered in
+the Gospel.&nbsp; The event is always in the hand of Him who
+directs the heart.&nbsp; But, under all circumstances, we work
+with the blessing of the Almighty, and with his promise, that our
+labour shall not be in vain.</p>
+<p>A sixth lesson to be learned from this history, is the
+<i>happy effects produced by the possession of true
+religion</i>.&nbsp; In the case of Jolin, how speedily did it
+tranquillize and cheer his mind.&nbsp; It was like the word of
+its holy author, when he said, &ldquo;Peace, be still, and there
+was a great calm.&rdquo;&nbsp; Those who visited the chamber of
+death, where he dwelt, could not but feel a degree of surprise at
+their own feelings, when they remembered that they were with one
+who had been a drunkard and a murderer.&nbsp; But religion had
+softened his character, and created in him those genuine fruits
+which, as we are taught, spring from the work of the Holy
+Spirit.&nbsp; &ldquo;The wilderness had become like Eden, and the
+desert like the garden of the Lord.&nbsp; Instead of the thorn
+had come up the fir-tree, <a name="page49"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 49</span>and instead of the briar had come up
+the myrtle-tree; to be for a name, and for an everlasting sign
+that should not be cut off.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Lastly, there <i>is a lesson of application to our own
+souls</i>.&nbsp; It may be asked, What is the intimate
+acquaintance which we have had with the experience which this
+poor dying criminal passed through?&nbsp; He, being dead, may
+speak to many of his own age, who have, perhaps, had far greater
+advantages of education and example; or he may speak to those who
+have seen more years, and yet have not attained to that ripeness
+of faith, and that full assurance of hope, which made Jolin climb
+with such eagerness the gallows hill, and long for the time when
+he should be with Christ.</p>
+<p>This history applies most emphatically to the case of <i>young
+men</i>; teaching them to avoid sin, even when it may have the
+sanction of parental example.&nbsp; The Bible, they must
+remember, and not men, especially ungodly men, should be their
+direction.&nbsp; By this law we shall all be judged, and must
+stand or fall.&nbsp; In Jolin&rsquo;s last address, he said,
+&ldquo;Avoid bad company, drinking spirits, vicious
+habits.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;I exhort young people not to violate
+the Sabbath, but to frequent church, and attend to their
+religious duties.&nbsp; Would that this tremendous example of
+punishment might lead every young person who hears it to inquire
+into his own state, and to remember how soon one act of sin may
+bring judgment upon him; and how tremendous will be his judgment,
+if, after this warning, he is found unprepared.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>This history also speaks most loudly and awfully <i>to
+parents</i>.&nbsp; &ldquo;You see in me,&rdquo; Jolin said from
+the scaffold, &ldquo;the effect of bad education and
+example.&nbsp; From early youth I have been addicted to
+intemperance.&nbsp; My duty to God was never pointed out to
+me.&nbsp; Those who have children committed to their care, I
+beseech to send them regularly to church, and to the
+Sunday-school, and teach them their duty to God and
+man.&rdquo;&nbsp; Let those, then, who are teaching
+Sabbath-breaking, swearing, passion, habits of drinking and vice,
+to their children, by their own example, <a
+name="page50"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 50</span>look at the
+horrible instance of sin and its consequences, which this case
+presents&mdash;a parent, murdered, and a son hanged! from the
+<i>effects of a father&rsquo;s example</i>!&nbsp; The case speaks
+for itself: and may the Holy Spirit enable us to learn the lesson
+which it teaches.</p>
+<p>May we all who read or hear this account, apply its lessons to
+ourselves.&nbsp; Let us adore the astonishing love of God in the
+case of this poor outcast sinner; His sovereign power, His
+boundless mercy, His all-sufficient grace.&nbsp; May we seek to
+lay all the burden of our transgressions upon that Sacrifice in
+whom Jolin trusted.&nbsp; May we, with him, find the Holy Spirit
+making us as fit to live, as, we trust, he was fit to die: so
+that when we have fought the good fight, we shall receive the
+crown of glory, which, we may trust, this believing penitent has
+been called to wear in the presence of Him who gave him the
+victory, through his own blood.</p>
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: center"><span
+class="GutSmall">LONDON:</span><br />
+<span class="GutSmall">IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY
+STREET, STRAND.</span></p>
+<h2>Footnotes</h2>
+<p><a name="footnote45"></a><a href="#citation45"
+class="footnote">[45]</a> Durell&rsquo;s account.</p>
+<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF PHILIP
+JOLIN***</p>
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+Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org) public repository for
+eBook #41145 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41145)