A couple of entries in his diary will complete our preparation for the
record of the day that changed his life. He is a youth of nineteen,
staid and thoughtful, but full of life and merriment, and the popular
center of a group of student friends.
_May 3, 1829._--Great sorrow, because I am still out of Christ.
_May 31, 1829._--My birthday is past and I am not born again.
Not every day, I fancy, do such entries find their way into the
confidential journals of young people of nineteen.