gregations, should be obtained and
published.

9th. A hearty and steady engagedness of private members in all our
churches in continual and becoming labours for the salvation of those
immediately dependant upon them, should be urged.

10th. Some years ago (in 1833) there was a proposal to organize a
general Board or Missionary Society in the South, for the special
purpose of conducting this work. At the time we were in favour of such
an organization. But it failed from some cause. In the present state of
our church, the Board of Missions, (Domestic,) acting as it does through
the Presbyteries, and by their advice, is perhaps fully adequate to the
work. We see not why they may not do it all, if the churches will but
furnish the means, and if proper men can be found. We have spoken of a
general Board. Local Associations are and will continue to be in many
respects useful and important. Let such be formed, on correct principles
wherever it may be useful. A form of a constitution for such an
association "auxiliary to the Board of Domestic Missions" constitutes a
valuable part of the Appendix to the pamphlet under review.

A friend of ours, who has long felt an interest, and who has through a
course of years conducted an extensive correspondence on this subject,
has shown us a large number of letters obtained by him for public use
from clergymen of high standing in several different denominations, from
lawyers, physicians, judges, members of Congress, intelligent planters,
officers of public institutions, and others residing in Virginia and
Texas, and States lying between them. We find in these letters from men
residing far apart a remarkable agreement both in feeling and in
judgment.

We propose to conclude this article by quoting a few sentences on
topics, which we deem of great importance.

One says, "From my own experience I should say there is but one obstacle
to success, and that is a belief among the slaves, that all scriptural
passages which bear upon their peculiar situation, have been
interpolated by white men. How far this notion prevails I cannot say,
but I am sure it does to a great extent."

Another says, "I cannot conceive how any one, who acknowledges the
obligations of Christian duty can decline affording Christian
instruction to his slaves. That this duty of instruction may be safely
performed, seems to me manifest from the very precepts of Christianity.
The whole tenor of the Bible inculcates nothin