The rights of all., 1829-05-29

rance and affliction within its own bounds is
departure from the benevolence Of the gospel.
Christ says" beginning at Jerusalem !" have
sad story to tell-there nearly three millions
of colored people in these United States, and
connected with the Presbyterian Church, which
is the most efficient in this country, in works
of charity, there is not single institution ex-
isting for the education of colorued youths or
young men, This people seems to be wholly
overlooked. The christian public still is, and
have been misled in this particular. There
have been eight or ten coloured men brought
into the ministry within few years without
sufficient thought, or care-If there be any
people who need learned ministers and teach.
ers it is the coloured population of the middle
and northern states-lt is far more difficult to
consult the wants and accommodate instruc-
ton to the various capacities OF this people,
than to any other in our country yet in most
instances, with which am acquainted, our
coloured ministers have been barely taught
enough to acquaint them with their ignorance,
and then deprived OF confidence by having
merely learned the name, without knowing the
nature of a few sciences, sent fourth with emp
ty minds to preach the mysteries of the Cross
to their brethren. At the sametme the white
man, taken from the plough, the bench SIC. Is
carried through colleget course and then
sent three or four years to the Seminary
These things ought not SO to DE, before our coll
ored population can ever take that stand In pl-
ety. virtue and usefulnes, which is so much to
; he desired and to which the church should en-
deavour to raise them, they must have a learn
ed ministry, and learned teachers-such has
h been The neglect on the part of the church in
q preparing her cooured ministers, speak of the
i PRESBYTERIAN church 10 which am proud to
belong, that children Of ten and twelve years
J. old, of the rising generation, can detect the
-ls~oeo-~+arro IN their language and pronuncl-
alton. While this is the case, whatever may
le be their zeal and piety, they never can COM
mand the respect necessary to their influence
Of and usefulness.
IN Imust here be indulged in the hope, that
r there may not be another coloured man brought
IS into the mlnestry of the Presbyterian church,
O, unless it be under peculiar circumstances
T. without better qualifications, to do otherwise is
to waste the means Of the church, and make
IS shipwreck Of the individual. We need learn
ne ed ministry, such would excite the taste and
rlx rouse into virtuous ambition the latent ener-
o. ges of our people. Education is the strong
d. est bulwork, save the relig ion of the Cross.
tn Under this view of the subject how painful
ad to see those to whom we lookup for sympathy
nv and instruction, overlook us and send the very
n means that should first be employed In our be-
nd half, to distant lands. VIII the church of God
as educate Greeks abroad, and leave their Greeks
be at home 10 perish in ignorance ?-shall thous-
er ands be raised in one evening for sufferers
lth across he ocean, and no efforts be made fol
he the suffers dt our own doors: We pause fol
to an answer, and pray that Divine Being who
ry, commands US to have the grace of God with
,ot out respect Of person. to drct in the decision.
hn In GREEcE.-The intelligence from Greece