milies.

The Board earnestly recommend, what they cheerfully anticipate,
that your conduct before your fellow passengers on the ocean, be
pious and exemplary. Endeavour to secure their good will by every
office of kindness; and, above all, cherish and discover a solemn
concern for their everlasting salvation. Arrived in Africa, you
will find much that will require patience, and prudence, and
mutual counsel. You will have to bear with prejudices that have
descended on the minds of the inhabitants, after having been
cherished for ages, and to instil the sacred truths of the gospel
with meekness and wisdom. While your conversation shall be
without blame, the Board advise you in your ministry to dwell
much on the doctrine of the cross, a doctrine which has been
found in every age of the church of Christ, the power of God.

Have as little to do as possible with what may be called the
politics of the country. Be content with the silence so divinely
exemplified in the Lord Jesus and his apostles to render unto
Caesar the things which are Caesar's. Cultivate a tender regard
for each other. If difference of opinion on any measures occur,
never suffer it to produce alienation of affection. You have
already had opportunities of improving your minds by reading, and
the Board are gratified by the reflection that you bear with your
books that are calculated to add to your general and spiritual
knowledge.

Give yourselves to reading still; and, above all, let the word of
God dwell in you richly. Be much engaged in prayer. If troubles
rise around you, the delightful thought that you have a Father, a
Saviour, in heaven, with whom you are so happy as to hold
communion, will not only soften their severity, but in a good
degree elevate you above their influence.

Let nothing discourage you. Ethiopia shall stretch forth her
hands unto God. You are engaged in the service of Him who can
make the _crooked straight_, and the _rough places_ plain.

The Board wish you, as you shall find opportunity, to write. They
will rejoice to hear that a church, on the principles of the
gospel, is founded as the fruit of your labours. They trust that
at no distant period, many such churches will rise, and the
solitary place be glad for them. They will be happy to facilitat