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afflictions may be the means of bringing him 
back to God. 
^^You may remember Ribbon, the lame fisher- 
boy. He has been sick for more than a month, 
with little hope of recovery, and should he die I 
think his soul would be at rest. I shall never 
forget with what earnestness and delight he 
grasped the thought that Christ died for all men. 
^Yes, sir,’ said he, ffle died for black man as well 
as for white man. He done die for me ow^ self 
all the same like one white man.’ I hope soon to 
organize a class of women to teach reading, sew- 
ing, anything that will make an opportunity to 
tell them about the blessed Jesus.” 
Yet at this very period there was a sharp con- 
troversy carried on in the Religious Tehscope^ 
between old and well-tried ministers of the Church, 
as to whether it was our duty to send missionaries 
to Africa! Tell it not in Gath! 
