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ENCOURAGEMENTS TO LABOR. 
From the experiment already made in the 
Colony of Sierra Leone, we are fully war- 
ranted in the assertion that white people 
have a great influence over that people for 
good; and that they may do much to elevate 
them from a state of degradation, to a state 
of moral purity. True, there yet remains 
much to be done where Missionaries have 
operated for years; but is there not also 
much to be done yet among the people of 
this country, who have heard the gospel, and 
have had its restraining and purifying in- 
fluences thrown around them from child- 
hood? 
Some half-hearted religionists, and wick- 
ed persons who neither fear God nor regard 
the rights of man, there will be, in despite 
of all that Christianity can do to prevent it. 
Were all the clergymen of Ohio to concen- 
trate their efforts in one county, and were 
they all much better men than most of 
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