Crime & punishment > Notes of conversations with H. M'Donald, N. Sutherland, and H. M'Intosh, (who were executed at Edinburgh, April 22, 1812,) during the time they were under sentence of death

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HDivine will is great, where a man has an op-
Uportunity of having that ignorance removed.
■There was one night, however, he said, when
phe had come earlier than his companions to the
ahead of the Bridge, he began to feel very un-
weasy when he was alone. But as soon as the rest
came, their conversation helped to dissipate all
his gloomy^ thoughts. M‘Donald observed,
! that very often, on the Sabbath evening par¬
ticularly, he used to feel deep regret at the
manner in which he had spent the day, espe¬
cially in not going to any place of worship.
That he often used to resolve to go the follow-
ling Sabbath. But when it came, his resolutions
were all forgotten, and he continued as careless
as before. The thought that he would have
: time enough before he died to repent of his sins,
and to obtain forgiveness, he repeatedly men-
! tioned, chiefly contributed to remove the un¬
easiness, which the recollection of his conduct
frequently produced.
It may be well supposed, that, in my con-
| versations -with these young men, we occasion-
; ally talked of the crimes for which they were
i condemned to die, though it was my chief ob-
I jeet to impress their minds with their deep guilt,
: as transgressors of the Divine law, which had
; been continually accumulating during the pre¬
vious period of their lives. The following is
, the amount, I think, of the information they
gave me respecting the association with which
j they were connected, and the scenes of that