250 SABBATH WITH THE NEGROES. 



years of sufferings, as slaves, have been accom- 

 plished ; and they return to their native shores, 

 with the prayers of thousands that God would 

 give them a prosperous voyage, and bless them 

 out of the very depths of slavery to their coun- 

 trymen. Many of them have gained some 

 useful knowledge in their state of bondage, 

 and may carry the ark of God to Africa, as the 

 Israelites bore it, in their deliverance from 

 Egypt, to the promised land. 



I spent a sabbath at the village, which con- 

 sisted of about forty families of negroes, and 

 preached to a goodly number of them assem- 

 bled in a log house. They were very attentive, 

 and their sable countenances directed towards 

 me, awakened a sympathy which I cannot ex- 

 press, while I spoke to them of that Divine 

 Lord, who i( once suffered for sins, the just for 

 the unjust," of every tribe, kindred, tongue, 

 and complexion of men, that he might bring us 

 to God. Immediately after the service, a poor 

 woman addressed me, saying, Massa ! me had 

 good church. Then pointing to an elderly man, 

 who sometimes visited and prayed with them 

 in their affliction, she said, with much empha- 

 sis, he, massa ! good Christianity-man, but 

 massa ! me never had better church t I found 

 upon inquiry, that the name of a school was 



