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elevation of the people, for much has been done through 
emancipation and religion. Marriage is now not only 
allowed but enjoined. Concubmage is now, indeed, still 
very common; and, what is worse, a kind of double 
adultery is very frequent; but they are frowned upon 
by most, and denounced by many. 
Such, then, being the present condition of things, 
much worse was it eighteen years ago, when our brother, 
Mr. Cowell’s righteous soul was vexed from day to 
day, by seeing and hearing the unlawful deeds of the 
people. No wonder, then, that he should urgently press 
upon the Society, that a labourer should be sent forth 
into this field. His earnest appeals did not fail to 
move the hearts of the Lord’s people in England. The 
Committee said, as Pharaoh said to his servants con- 
cerning Joseph, “ Can we find such a one as this is, a 
man in whom the Spirit of God is?” And they came 
to the conclusion that Mr. Coweii himself should be 
appointed to labour among the people of Trinidad ; and 
this he did in an earnest way for about ten years, till 
the Lord of the Vineyard called him from toil to rest — 
from grace to gloiy. 
Though Mr. Co wen was, doubtless, the chief cause of 
the mission being established in Trinidad, another mind 
had been thinking of, and another heart had been feel- 
ing for, the poor benighted people of Trinidad; and 
were I to pass on without making mention of the efforts 
of Mrs. Eevell, I should be grievously wanting in filial 
affection. 
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