h proper evidence of their sincerity and
uprightness. Due care being taken at the same time that they receive
their instructions from right sources, where they will not be in danger
of having their minds corrupted by sentiments unfriendly to the domestic
and civil peace of the community." Page 15.

The second document is styled "Practical considerations founded on the
Scriptures relative to the slave population of South Carolina,"
respectfully dedicated to the "South Carolina Association," by a South
Carolinian, understood to be the Rev. Dr. Dalcho of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Charleston. The concluding sentence is in these
words: "If we are the owners of slaves, our duty to God, to our country,
and to ourselves, all urge the necessity of affording them instruction
in the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the souls of men." pp. 37,
38.

Another of these documents, whose author is the Rev. Chas. Colcock
Jones, D.D., establishes these principles: That the negroes need the
gospel: That God has put it in our power to give them the gospel: That
we are bound by humanity, consistency, by the spirit of our religion,
and by the express command of God to give them the gospel: That we
cannot be excused from this work by pleading that they already and
sufficiently have the light of life: Nor by pleading that they are
incapable of receiving it: Nor by pleading the little success that has
been had in this department: Nor by pleading the great and peculiar
difficulties of the case.

The next documents are the twelve Annual Reports of the Missionary to
the negroes in Liberty County, Georgia, presented to the Association
from year to year, and published by order of the Association. These are
the most practical and therefore to us the most useful documents in the
collection. Passing by the practical matters, we present but one
sentence taken from the report of 1833. "The religious instruction of
servants is as much a duty as that of children. You are labouring
therefore to discharge a duty; and are to account for the manner in
which you discharge it at the bar of God." p. 15.

The next document is: "Report of the committee to whom was referred the
subject of the Religious instruction of the colored population, of the
Synod of South Carolina and Georgia, at its sessions in Columbia, South
Carolina, December 5th-9th, 1833, and published by order of the Synod."
This able document thus enumerates the benefits which will flo