among them are the white members of the family
encouraging them by their attendance, manifesting their
interest in the exercises, and their anxiety for the eternal
well-being of their people. Of the whole number, forty-five
or fifty have made a profession of religion, and others are
evidently deeply concerned.

Let me now conduct you to a Bible class of ten or twelve
adults who can read, met with their Bibles to study and have
explained to them the word of God. They give unequivocal
demonstrations of much interest in their employment, and of
an earnest desire to understand and remember what they read.
From hence we will go to another room, where are assembled
eighteen to twenty lads, attending upon catechetical
instruction, conducted by their young master. Here you will
notice many intelligent countenances, and will be struck with
the promptitude and correctness of their answers.

But the most interesting spectacle is yet before you. It is
to be witnessed in the Infant School Room, nicely fitted up
and supplied with the customary cards and other
appurtenances. Here every day in the week, you may find
twenty-five or thirty children, neatly clad and wearing
bright and happy faces. And as you notice their correct
deportment, hear their unhesitating replies to the questions
proposed, and above all when they unite their sweet voices in
their touching songs, if your heart is not affected and your
eyes do not fill, you are the hardest-hearted and driest-eyed
visitor that has ever been there. But who is their teacher?
Their mistress, a lady whose amiable Christian character and
most gifted and accomplished mind and manners are surpassed
by none. From day to day, month to month, and year to year,
she has cheerfully left her splendid halls and circle of
friends, to visit her school room, where, standing up before
those young immortals, she trains them in the way in which
they should go, and leads them to Him who said, "suffer
little children to come unto me."

From the Infant School room, we will walk through a beautiful
lawn half a mile, to a pleasant grove commanding a view of
miles in extent. Here is a brick chapel, rising for the
accommodation of this interesting family; sufficiently large
to receive two or three hundred hearers. When completed, in
beauty and co