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TRINIDAD. 
croAvu lands in Trinidad. Five quarries, a little less 
than si-vtoon acres, were given to each head of a famil y 
to hold for himself and his heirs in perpetuity. The 
greater part of these old soldiers had been baptized in 
America, and accordingly very readily welcomed Mr. 
Cowell among them. ■ Here he laboured till 1853, when 
death called him hence. After his decease, IMr. Law 
statedly visited the churches, exercising to the utmost 
his intiuence for the best interests of the people. That 
influence, however, could not be other than limited, 
since the duties of his own station, and its distance from 
Savannah Grande, precluded his visits from being either 
frequent, or of long duration. The churches were, to 
some considerable extent, unavoidably left, in a large 
measure, to the control of the native brethren, who, 
.however zealous and pious they may have been, were 
not altogether competent to the duties which thus came 
upon them. It was thought that the leaders, guided 
by Mr. Law, would be enabled to make progress in the 
Lord’s vineyard ; hence no second missionary was sent 
to Trinidad for about four years after Mr. Cowen's death ; 
nor does it appear probable that a missionary would 
have been sent at all, but for the repeated and earnest 
solicitations of Mr. Law, who felt that one man was in- 
adequate to the work of both town and country stations. 
Induced by the representations of Mr. Law, the Com- 
mittee decided upon sending him help. Accordingly, 
in the year 185G, the writer was accepted for Trinidad, 
and prepared for his departure thither. 
