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TEINIDAD. 
enlightening ages, witness the encyclical letter of Pius 
the Ninth. It is true, and well for Christendom that 
it is true, that the power of Popery is limited and 
circumscribed, and growing every year happily less and 
less; until we sincerely pray it may he consigned to 
the rubbish-heap of things old, useless, and forgotten. 
In the meantime the leven of iniquity works ; and 
in its working mars the beauty, and stays, in some 
measure, the progress of Christianity. Its working, s.,. 
too, are convulsive and fitful ; and these, surely, must 
denote and foreshadow its coming dissolution. Oh ! 
that the day were come when the minds of thousands, 
of immortals shall be freed from the hard yoke and 
intolerable burden of Popery; when the eyes of the 
blinded devotees shall be opened and blessed with the 
cheering saving light of the Gospel ; when the souls of 
men shall be (lisenthralled from the bondage of super- 
stition and error ! AVe rejoice to know, that Italy, 
that land which has so long been blighted by the 
withering blast of Popery, is now being refreshed by 
the sweet sounds of the Gospel, and being quickened 
into holy spiritual life by the breath of the Holy Spirit,, 
and by the rays of the sun of righteousness. Tlie seven 
churches mentioned aboA'e are under the spiritual su])er- 
vision of the missionary resident in San Fernando ; and 
this Avork, though delightful to the spirit, is someAvhat 
fatiguing to the body. In the former pages mention 
has been made of the church and mission-house in Port 
of Spain ; and as that church has its oAvn pastor, it is 
not deemed necessary to make any further obserA'ations. 
relative to it. 
And noAV our task is done ; Ave haA'e spoken of Trinidad 
as Ave knoAv it, so that these sheets are pretty much the 
result of personal knoAAdedge and experience ; and our 
desire and prayer is that the Divine blessing may 
rest upon this sincere attempt to interest the llaptist 
churches of Pritain in the missionary enterprise. 
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