TKINIDAD. 
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INTEODUCTION. 
It is not unknown to many, that tlie Mission of the 
London Baptist Missionary Society in Trinidad has been 
established some twenty-two years. The Eev. George 
Cowen was the first agent to that island. He was, for 
some years, superintendent of the schools of the Mico- 
charity in Trinidad. He was a Baptist m principle, as 
also was Mrs. Cowen. In };he course of his labours 
among the people, he found that they not only needed 
secular instruction, but that much more, they required 
spiritual enlightenment ; hence he was induced to 
represent their deplorable condition to the Society in 
London. The people of Trinidad, at that time, had en- 
joyed several years of the blessings of freedom; yet 
they were far from free from the degradation and immo- 
rality which slavery necessarily produces and entails. 
Truthfulness, honesty, and chastity were, if not alto- 
gether without existence, exceedingly rare ; nor is this 
to be wondered at, when we remember what slavery in 
its essential nature is. AVhilst in bondage, the poor 
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