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the Wesley ans, are more influential, their congregations 
being composed in part of the Scotchmen who are mer- 
chants, merchants’ clerks, planters, and overseers. 
There are some three chapels belonging to them — one in 
Town, Grayfriars, one in San Fernando, and one at'Arouca, 
a village about twelve miles distant from Port of 
Spain. Grayfriars is a commodious substantial build- 
ing, standing in a central position in the town, and is 
■occupied by an intelligent and respectable congregation. 
The minister has been among his people almost twenty 
years, and is highly and deservedly esteemed by his own 
people, and generally much respected by all classes. 
The church at Arouca is in a flourishing condition, the 
minister being a native of Jamaica, and has been 
educated for the ministry in the Presbyterian Theolo- 
gical Institution in that island. The congregation 
and clmrch is almost entirel}'" composed of coloured 
people. 
At San Fernando, the Presbyterians have a neat 
■ chapel, the congregation partly composed of Scotchmen 
and partly of the coloured people. 
Trinidad is a diflicult field of labour to the servant of 
Christ. There is not only here, as in all lands, the 
enmity of the carnal mind, the pleasures of sin, and the 
absorbing interests of this world, to oppose and defeat 
the designs and labours of the servants of Christ ; but 
Catholicism, Hindooism, Mahomedanism, African super- 
stition, general ignorance, and diversity of tongues, all 
combine to make the field a very sterile one indeed. 
With God all things are possible ; but humanly speak- 
ing, the day is far distant ere the many tongues and the 
many creeds found in Trinidad will become as one. 
The Hindoo and Mahomedan has brought his religion 
with him to Trinidad, and every year the festival of the 
Mohurran is observed with much noise and drum- 
beating. The toy-like temples are made with much 
care, great skill, and, for poor people, much money is 
