IN WESTERN AFRICA. 107 
most of 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 much of his time, kind- 
ling 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 noth- 
ing at all. True, we must keep up the institutions 
of Christianity at home, or in a few centuries we 
should be what the Africans are now 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 encouraged in the prosecution of 
this work, 
• First : From the success v/hich has attended the 
labors of those who have been and are still em- 
ployed in it. In the colony of Sierra Leone many 
of the colored people have comfortable and well- 
furnished houses — dress decentlv, and even ele- 
gantly. * An ample fortune has been attained by 
numbers, by their own exertions. A knowledge 
of such trades as are needed in that country has 
been obtained. Among them are found shoe- 
makers, tailors, blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, 
painters, watch-makers, and others. 
