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country that exhibits skill, Mohammedans make] ; 
and then he tell him go to. 
After this he make Mendi man, and showed 
him how to farm, make country cloth, mats, 
canoes, and such like things ; and then he tell him 
to go. 
In the last place, he make Sherbro man ; and 
when he get him done the sun go down, and he 
had no time to show him anything but make salt 
and catch fish, but promised to come back and 
show him more things. But he forgot to do so, 
and that the reason Sherbro man know so 
little.’’ 
Some of the Timiny tribe say that the reason 
why white people are superior to their race in this 
world is, because they choose their good things 
here, but black man choose his good things in the 
next world. Giod offered both happiness in the 
next world, if they would be content to brook 
hardships in this; but white man said he want- 
ed his good things now, and hence God gave 
them. 
Dear reader, ought not you and I to praise God' 
with our lips, and in our lives, that we may have 
good things in the present and in the future world ? 
‘^Ho good thing will he withhold from thein that 
walk uprightly.” Oh ! the unspeakable goodness 
of God, and the condescension of Christ ‘fin giv- 
