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It took me a long time to begin reading Lawrence Clarkson' autobiography because his sentence construction was very 1600s.

But appealing to cognitive dissonance, maybe God is only preparing me. Not that i think myself prepared enough. Mr. Clarkson's journey towards the truth took him to wrong roads. It all started innocent. Wanting to please God, trying not to offend Him. Then comes the "indoctrination" of so many

If i struggled with Mr Bunyan's spelling, that is nothing in comparison with Mr. Norwood. He probably speaks like how he writes. It is as if you are flooded with his remembrance. Add that to his grammar, it's a battlefield.

Two parts of his little biography strucked me; first, was when he let time reform him. He trusted to time what needed his effort — change for the good. Without God's grace and our effort, that is