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them now are, still some of the people of 
that county would live and die in sin. 
Paul understood this, and hence, when he 
had planted a church and fully declared the 
whole gospel in one place, he went to 
another, and thus he continued to go about 
kindling up the glorious light of the gospel 
that men might be saved if they would. 
The argument that we have sinners enough 
at home, "stay here and preach instead of 
going to Africa," is worth nothing at alL 
True, we must keep up the institutions of 
Christianity at home, or in a few centuries 
we will be what the Africans now are in 
point of moral degradation; but we must 
also do our duty in sending the gospel to 
those who have it not. We should be en- 
couraged in the prosecution of this work : 
First— From the success which has attend- 
ed the labors of those who have been, and 
are still employed in it. In the Colony of 
Sierra Leone many of the colored people 
have comfortable, and well-furnished houses, 
— dress decently and even elegantly. An 
ample fortune has been attained by numbers 
by their own exertions. A knowledge of 
