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do the oppressed, and the oppressive people 
of the land of Ham. 
We are indebted to the Bible for all the 
intelligence, enterprise and refinement we 
have above the heathen; and take from us 
the Bible and its blessed influences, and in 
a very few centuries our condition would 
in every respect be as wretched as that of 
the most degraded race on the face of the 
globe. Mankind, the world over, are much 
alike when left to the degrading tendencies 
of their corrupt natures, for " they are all 
gone aside, they are all together become 
filthy, there is none that doeth good, no, not 
one. 53 " They profess that they know God ; 
( even the African ) but in works they deny 
kim y being abominable, disobedient, and to 
every good work reprobate." 
Could Christian women of this land (and 
all Christians ) realize how much they are 
indebted to the gospel for the unnumbered, 
and exceeding high privileges they enjoy, 
surely they would make greater efforts to 
give the bread of life to the thousands who 
are perishing. 
Should we not all be Missionaries, in 
