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occupy liis place, tlie missionary consenting to and 
approving of tlieir clioice. This younger brother had 
served under the “ old father,” as he was sometimes 
called, and was hence, in some measure at least, fitted 
and prepared to occupy his place. Certainly the work 
of Moses was difficult, but Joshua’s task was surely 
little less arduous, and only, as God Avas Avith one and 
the other, Avere they enabled to rule and lead the chosen 
people of God. The people of the Fifth Company had 
been slaves, were made soldiers, served for a time, and 
then Avere disbanded, and located on lands in the interior 
of Trinidad. It Avas certainly no easy task to teach and 
to train in holiness of life those AAdiose position had been 
so unfavourable for the cultivation of the moral poAvers. 
It Avill not be surprising to any one kiioAviug these facts 
to learn that the people Avere prone to immorality ; nor, 
considering all things, is it A'ery strange that, in spite of 
the adAmnce of civilization, partial education, and consi- 
derable religious instruction, they are liable to fall into 
gross immoralities still. Vice is a Aveed not only of 
rapid groAvth, and one Avhose seeds are innumerable and 
are Avafted afar by every Avind, but one Avhose roots 
strike doA\m so deep and cling so tenaciously, tliat they 
can scarcely be eradicated. Virtue is a plant of sIoav 
groAvth in the unfriendly soil of the liuman heart, and, 
liOAveA^er carefully planted there, Avill never grow and 
thriA'^e unless AA^atered by the deAvs of divine grace, and 
tended carefully by holy hands. Tlie pure gospel of 
Clixist is sure to purify the hearts of those Avho receive 
it, and so cleanse the fountain AA'heuce these impure 
streams have tlovui. Where diAuiie grace is communi- 
cated, there not only the outAvard life, but the Avhole 
man, Avill be ennobled, purified, and sanctified. He Avho 
Avas holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners, 
■can communicate of his purity and holiness to the unclean 
and the godless ; and believing that J esus Avill do this, 
we labour to .make knoAvn the holy Lord God — Ave strive 
