In 1847 I read with great care The Life of John Fletcher, and also his treatise on Christian Perfection. I read them on horseback, studying, praying and often weeping over them and over my own want of such experiences. In 1849, at a revival meeting, in the month of July, while many souls were seeking Christ and I was profoundly interested and affected in talking with them, and was very happy in my own soul, I was led into a faith and an experience I never had before.  While kneeling at the "mourner's bench" and directing a poor sinner how to trust God, a devoted sister, who knew my own convictions and experience, and who enjoyed perfect love herself, said to me very quietly," Brother Crary, you had better try that yourself, and trust God for full salvation." I said then and there, "I will; I do; bless the Lord!"

This meeting was near Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana. I had after that a constant experience of the Love of God in my soul, and never afterward went back so far that I fell into the doubts and depressions which before that gave me so much trouble. It was a quiet, subdued, constant peace and joy. I had afterward a time of long and fearful trials, sickness, sorrow and death in my family, stroke after stroke, until a shivering dread of disease and death came over me. I did not fear for myself, but for my remaining children and friends.