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river. There he gathered the sons and daughters of 
Africa together, tangiit tliem with all simplicity and 
earnestness the truth as it is in Jesus, and their children 
he taught lioth in the day school and Sabbath school. 
After a time, as the work prospered under his hand, 
the Society, at his suggestion, purchased a valuable 
property offered for sale by the Trustees of the Mico 
Charity. These premises then became, and now are, the 
mission-house and land. The lower part of the mission- 
house was found sufficiently large and convenient to 
serve as a place of worship, until a chapel could be 
erected upon the spare land adjoining. Here the mis- 
sionary’s family lived, and here the missionary laboured 
until the Society sent out the Eev. Mr. Law. Shortly 
after his arrival, it was arranged that Mr. Cowen should 
leave Port of Spain, and endeavour to establisli a mis- 
sion in Savannah Grande. On going to this district, 
Mr. Cowen found many families, indeed several entire 
small villages, whose inhabitants were Baptists in their 
religious views. Among them he found a ready welcome, 
and on behalf of these villagers he laboured earnestly 
foi- many years. In order that he might attend to the 
spiritual wants of the people of the American villages, 
he purchased on behalf of the Society, a piece of laud 
in Savannah Grande, near the mission village, on which 
he built a substantial and commodious mission-house 
of cedar and country wood. The rdllages in which he 
laboured were about four and six miles distant. After 
a short time he built a chapel, iirst in one village, then 
in another, until each village was supplied with a 
decent place of worship. His plan was, to stir up the 
minds of the people to the necessity of building a house 
in which they might worship God, and when he found 
them willing, he got the land and assisted rvith wdiat 
money was necessary, the people cheerfully giving their 
labour in felling the trees, and sawing them up into 
scantling and boards. The chapels were generally about 
40 ft. long by 20 ft. broad, and built chiefly of cedar, a 
