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to preach Christ and Him crucified, that men may hear, 
believe, and live. 
At the Fifth Company Church additions are frecpiently 
made ; nor is church discipline a rare occurrence. There 
is life among the people, and, unhappily, there are evils 
in their midst; but these statements are true of all 
churches and of all men; and while human nature is 
what it is, watchfulness will be needed and church cen- 
sure and discipline be demanded. 
There is a church not far from the Fifth Company, 
over which Brother Samuel Cooper presides. It is located 
in the Sixth Company. This people are fond of and 
pretty obedient to their pastor. He is a man of rather 
more than ordmary strength and stability of character, 
and exerts his influence and devotes his strength to the 
instruction and guidance of his people, and with a fair 
measure of success. In former years the people scarcely 
thought that marringe was intended for them ; and so 
mistaken were their views on this subject, that some of 
the pastors baptized and admitted into the church those 
who were never married, but living in concubinage. 
When brighter days dawned, and clearer knowledge was 
dispersed among the people, this practice, of course, was 
discontinued ; and those who were in the church leading 
that life, were required either to be married or quit the 
church. It was difficult to make some of them admit 
the justice and righteousness of this step ; but at length 
all have come to understand that concubinage is a disre- 
putable and sinful state to live in, and one which abso- 
lutely precludes the possibility of their having a name 
and a place in a Christian church. Those Avho have for 
ages enjoyed the full and clear light of the Gospel, and 
been blessed with the blessings of civil and religious 
freedom, may find it difficult to conceive of a people 
whose moral sense was so blunted and their spiritual 
instincts so dead ; but such was the case, and no small 
task had those whose duty it Avas to guide the peojfie 
from the night of ignorance and sin, begotten of slavery, 
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