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though not so numerously as it should and might 
he. Again and again has the duty of sending their 
children to school been urged upon the people con- 
nected with our churches ; but not yet are they alive to 
the value of education ; still a faint glimmering of light 
begins to dawn on their minds in relation to this sub- 
ject, and soon, we hope, they will be fully conscious of 
the necessity of their children’s minds being cultivated. 
Besides the churches at Montserrat and Indian Walk, 
there are churches at the Fifth Company, Sixth Company, 
First Company, and Matilda Boundary. Brother Eobert 
Andrews is the pastor of the Fifth Company Church, and 
is assisted in preaching by a good brother, Daniel Johnson. 
MF have established a rule that no brother shall be 
allowed to occupy the pidpits of the churches in the 
Union unless licensed by the Union. This rule was 
found necessary, as sometimes individuals were allowed 
to enter the pulpits and preach who were in every way 
unfit to engage in such important work. 
For many years the church at the Fifth Company was 
presided over by an aged brother, who had come from 
America with the old soldiers in 1816 ; and from that 
year till 1860 (the year of his death), he guided and 
instructed the people to the best of his ability and 
knowledge. He was one of the few Avho, in those days, 
could read ; hence, possessed of this amount of education, 
and being a good speaker, and a lover of maintaining 
such discipline as he was actxuainted vdth, he became 
the pastor of the Fifth Company villagers. It must, 
however, be observed, that he allowed some things to be 
done in, and some persons to be members of, the churcli, 
which he ought not to have done. Still, considering the 
times of slavery, and the little knowledge he had, we 
would deal gently with Brother Hamilton. We trust 
and believe he has gone where there is no darkness, and 
no lack of spiritual knowledge and heavenly light. When 
“ Brother Will,” as he was familiarly and fraternally 
called, died, the church called Brother Andrews to 
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