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groes , who , witk Ms own £ &iniLy and many others ^ ttenrfftrom the n ^ g ^ boiur hood . The late robber temseBV ^ J « n
happy to state , manifests a real change of life and heart , to the truth of whifch his master bears a piea ^ in ^ testimony . He has pQ ^ rei&wqd aaji schoUrfato our Sundaarrschppl- Ow e ^ eelJeut ami
gpyernor ^ with his secretary a member of the council , lately visited the Sunday-school , and expressed £ iis high satisfaction with the improvement of the children /'
Bat your correspondent seems to think that all these instructions can do the Negroes but Htt ) e i ^ eal ^ ood , as long 9 & * h&y jreipaia in slavery . He vviU pardfitf * « ae for raying that I cannot conceive this * , Such is the nature of Christian truth , that if it be bat received with any degree of seriousness and affection , I think it must .
% o a rnoral certainty , operate jnost beneficiall y both on the heart and the understanding , and through them on tt ^ e whole social fcehavio ur . And thi s appears , ftom the statements of the Missionaries , to be realized in fact . Whether the reception ojf religion , will
tpn < j to prpduce any insurrectionary movements ainong ^ he Negroes , I feel uaable tO ; JMdge with absolute confidence ; but it appears to me , that religion represses such movements by much stronger motives than it Incites them , nor am I aware that there are
any facts on record in evidence of such a danger .. Moreover , among the Planters themselves , a contrary opiwoa skeins to be gaming ground * With respect to the instruction * of the Negroes in the art of reading , it
is certainly a more tjuestionable measure , and unless it goes hand in hand with a progressive emancipation , may have dangerous tendencies . Reading however , is not absolutely necessary , cither to life or godliness : it . is .. but a
modern blessing ia the world , ai&ce before the art of printing , it was pro * babiv never enjoyed by the loass of manlrind , whether bona or free . But even from ibis acquirement , when attained in conjunction with religious
instruction and discipline , J think there must < bti more to b& hoped tftrari to be feared . Move'jealousy , however , e * ist » on this J ** tat ^ m ^ ng the Mahter ^ ^ nd consequently ; a c ^ iriparativejy Hnli ^ ed nuitaber of Umre ^ ehildren receive this
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part of education . Indeed , I must adii ^ it jroir Correspondent ' s correctness , jtf t ^ jiykig , that the Report alluded to furnishes no decisive evidence of any slave-children being taught to read , though it ia made probable that ia- ^ few instances they are so ^ But we have seen that religious instruction , by catechizing and pr ^ achinjr ^ . ia
earned on tbticmisiclerable extent amqWg feintbenefit . Tt * 6 m the onmtftai , ^
lierefore , tha ^ among . these degraded people Missionary labours are almost useless , Mr . Copper wual , pardon « ie wh ^ n I say t hat I & # iil&el soflae ^? oFtmd for dissent . , EUELFIS .
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GLEANINGS J OR , Sfel * ECTlOtt 8 AND " itKFLECTtbjrs MAnis in a fcotrrse OF GENERAL , READING .
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No . CCCCI . Botanical Heaven * It is amusing to see hpw men associate their favourite pursuits with their religious expectations . In this they
sometimes fall into the ludicrous , Tijp Batanic Garden , for insi ^ ace , a » t Leyden , contains a bust t > f ; 6 k $ 6 ms , one of its founders and benefactors ^ ou wfaicil is the follawing inscription : - ¦ -
Non potuit plures hie qqserere Clu ^ ius herbas , .... < ' .. ' . Ergo * novas campis quserit in klysiis , ' which may be thus plainly Englished , New plants to Clusius , Earth no looger yields , , . , He goes to botanize in the Elysian fields :
This compliment ( says the Editor of the Horticultural Tour by a Deputation from the Edinburgh Horticultural Socitfty , an interesiSte and f ^ iiifole vftwrk , jttet ^ abli 3 hea ia bn 6 Tpluilie , 8 vo . ) has a p ^ allel Mi btt ^ ^ id bf the anthor of the * ' Gfrainina Britannica "
to the herborizing $ eal of the late Mr . Sble > of Bdth : *^ If our spirits , after their escape from tfus prison of clay , continue any attachiuents to what engaged them on earth , surely , concludes the amiable Author , rapt in botajai ^ al fervour Sole is npw " dtflip-Ung in celestial fieicb I
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/37/
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