108 
MISSIONARY LIFE 
The colony is well supplied with week-day and 
Sabbath-schools, conducted by colored teachers; 
and it has also quite a number of clergymen who 
were raised up in it, some of whom reflect honor 
upon their calling. I am not blind to the mani- 
fold wants still existing within the colony, but 
when it is compared with those places where 
heathenism reigns undisturbed, there is reason 
for rejoicing in the great work that has been 
effected. Many sincere Christians are there ; 
and some have died in the faith, and have gone 
to heaven. We might refer to other places on 
the coast. And indeed we need not go outside of 
Sherbro Mission to obtain abundant proof that 
the labor of missionaries among that people is not 
in vain. No one can go into the schools of that 
mission without being strongly impressed with 
the improvement the pupils have made in the ac- 
quisition of knovdedge, and in the change of man- 
ners. And then there are some whose conver- 
sion from heathenism to Christianity has been 
shown to be genuine by their consistent, upright 
lives for years past. 
Second : The promises of God afibrd great en- 
couragement to missionary eftbrt in Africa. 
Ethiopia shall stretch out her hands to God.’’ 
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen 
for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of 
