It was brought about, as we can plainly see, by medical treatment wisely applied; but it came in the form of a burst of religious faith and hope.

He rises one morning feeling better; grows cheerful over his breakfast, takes up the Bible, which in his fits of madness he always threw aside, and turns to a verse in the Epistle to the Romans.
"Immediately I received strength to believe, and the full beams of the Sun of Righteousness shone upon me.

I saw the sufficiency of the atonement He had made, my pardon in His blood, and the fulness and completeness of His justification.

In a moment I believed and received the Gospel." Cotton at first mistrusted the sudden change, but he was at length satisfied, pronounced his patient cured, and discharged him from the asylum, after a detention of eighteen months.

Cowper hymned his deliverance in _The Happy Change_, as in the hideous Sapphics he had given religious utterance to his despair.
The soul, a dreary province once Of Satan's dark domain, Feels a new empire form'd within, And owns a heavenly reign.
The glorious orb whose golden beams The fruitful year control, Since first obedient to Thy word, He started from the goal, Has cheer'd the nations with the joys His orient rays impart; But', Jesus, 'tis Thy light alone Can shine upon the heart.
Once for all, the reader of Cowper's life must make up his mind to acquiesce in religious forms of expression.