with lofty notions, which will
only rouse up against them the worst feelings of the whites."

Two others relate at length how they overcame reluctance in their
negroes to attend upon religious instruction. They gave them a part of
Saturday for doing those things, which they had formerly done on the
Lord's day, as going to a market, &c. They also gave them two or three
hours, when preaching could be had during the week. They thus showed
that they were willing to lose, (if loss it was) a portion of their time
for their spiritual good. "This course soon removed all outward
opposition."

Another says, "Ministers ought not only to preach a great deal more than
formerly to servants, but also preach a great deal to white people about
the instruction of servants, so as to convince the whole church and the
servants that we are in earnest in this business and intend to
persevere."

Another says, "May I entreat you to be zealous, as you value the welfare
of your country, the prosperity of our church, your own reputation as a
minister of the gospel, and the approbation of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ. I am assured that nothing under God, will ever give motion
to our Southern Zion in this most momentous of all causes of Christian
benevolence before us, but the united, determined and protracted effort
of God's ministers."

Another says, "Under present circumstances it is evident that they who
engage in the delicate business of instructing our slaves, must confine
themselves to the method of oral communication. But this limitation
should not produce the slightest discouragement. Written documents bore
but a small part in the early propagation of Christianity. Until the
present age, indeed the mass of the people have received by far the
greater part of their religious knowledge and impressions from the mouth
of the living teacher. Even now perhaps the majority in our own country
have their religious principles and character formed mainly by oral
instruction.

"Respecting the method best adapted to the negroes, experience must
decide. A few remarks will develop the general principles on which I
would act if called to this high and holy duty.

"1st. To study to make the instructions given both pleasant and
profitable to the instructed. The whole carcass of modern technical
theology--its metaphysics--its subtle distinctions--its mystical
dogmas--its sectarian polemics--its technical phrases, &c. &c.--should
be cast away by h