them, most devout in manner.
Pleasant it was to see the large proportion of men among them, many
young white men of the middle and upper class; and still more
pleasant, too, to see that all hues and ranks knelt side by side
without the least distinction. One trio touched me deeply. An old
lady--I know not who she was--with the unmistakable long, delicate,
once beautiful features of a high-bred West Indian of the 'Ancien
Regime,' came and knelt reverently, feebly, sadly, between two old
Negro women. One of them seemed her maid. Both of them might have
been once her slaves. Here at least they were equals. True
Equality--the consecration of humility, not the consecration of
envy--first appeared on earth in the house of God, and at the altar
of Christ: and I question much whether it will linger long in any
spot on earth where that house and that altar are despised. It is
easy to propose an equality without Christianity; as easy as to
propose to kick down the ladder by which you have climbed, or to saw
off the bough on which you sit. As easy; and as safe.

But I must not forget, while speaking of education in Trinidad, one
truly 'educational' establishment which I visited at Tacarigua;
namely, a Coolie Orphan Home, assisted by the State, but set up and
kept up almost entirely by the zeal of one man--the Rev. ---
Richards, brother of the excellent Rector of Trinity Church, Port of
Spain. This good man, having no children of his own, has taken for
his children the little brown immigrants, who, losing father and
mother, are but too apt to be neglected by their own folk. At the
foot of the mountains, beside a clear swift stream, amid scenery and
vegetation which an European millionaire might envy, he has built a
smart little quadrangle, with a long low house, on one side for the
girls, on the other for the boys; a schoolroom, which was as well
supplied with books, maps, and pictures as any average National
School in England; and, adjoining the buildings, a garden where the
boys are taught to work. A matron--who seemed thoroughly worthy of
her post--conducts the whole; and comfort, cleanliness, and order
were visible everywhere. A pleasant sight; but the pleasantest
sight of all was to see the little bright-eyed brown darlings
clustering round him who was indeed their father in God; who had
delivered them from misery and loneliness, and--in the case of the
girls--too probably vic