New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-12
that the religion Of Mohammed would give place 70

that the religion Of Mohammed would give P'a0o ="
the religion of Christ. ,xxof
South Africa said that &c had 70 speak OF ad se ~
Of creation He had pleasant home, ~ ;niand
yond the Cape Of Good Hope, anu ~ in NJ ari
from which he could zee ,s 0cean To the West
he iooted through thousands OF miles o, uhor?nen
yeo,ben;sm. Though these vessels had ocHh s",,
over that track for 800 year. Se" the name Of
lie had heard during the week many uihgs'
H. had heard men talking for the rights OF numaHy;
Tbot ,ros good He had seen women stanoilg up, anu
lnaI for their right to manhood. That was not
s1 liberty for four millions of laei IN bondage;
81 o;vc item liberty, but God give liberty to the
ia 600 600 of their brethren in that land from which
they were brought. lApplause.l
Give the world liberty, but not without ted ana ke-
leiou These people were so degraded that instead OF
oIitinQ their toenas they rlsped them of with piece
of sandstone The labor and burden Of life was thrown
entirely upon the women, no much so, that H. unoruh
ately woman had two children at time, one of them
was Killed because she could not do her work with
the two. He had never yet seen heather man honor
his wife 70 much as 10 allow her TO eat with nm.
Shonld we denounce those who attempted to change
all this and direct our whole attention 10 one little por
ton of the earth Contrast the heather man and
woman az seen in Africa, with the Christian Gee
the heather woman digging in field where the grass
was as high as her head, while her lazy husband was
taking snuff and drinking beer at home.
The Christian man, on the contrary, plowed his land
with a Yankee pow-they had 500 worth OF the bast
they could get in his missiOn-whilc his wife dldIae
work Of the house. lie told affecting story OF "A
young man who obliged TO give all that ne had 10
buy Lis sister out of Slavery; he made himself utterly
poor to buy his sister out Of that thradom. Ap-
rla,lse She was now child of God The heathen
Kafil' only idea of any thing WAS " Is 1t good to
eat r. The Eeathens slept the ground in their huts
between their sheep and their calves The Christians
| had beds and tables, with good table cloths and writing
desks and for every letter which he sent down 10 the
seaport he sent five for the natives. They enjoyed
correspondence. lie protested against being Obliged
TO cut off his native helpers But little would be saved
| by it. He could not say 9them that the Church IN
America was too mean too stingy to continue these
salaries. Mr. Lindley closed in such moving STRAIN
that many elderly eyes were affected to tears.
The Rev. Mr. WALKER of the Gab0On Mission. He
| spoke of the great work which going on in the
| western coast Of Africa 1t had been proposed to
abolish these MISSIONS they 80 unhealthy. But
the region was not unhealthy to be the rendezvous
| of slave-traders from NewYork. We could send
10 600 missionaries of wrath and destruction to tins Ill
faied land but 10 to carry the Gospel OF Jesus
The missionaries there did not think their lives too
| great "a sacIlhce 81,
| " The Rev. Dr. Roswell c. HITcHCocK was the last
speaker. He took comprehensive survey OF mission
ary labor from the earliest ages of Chrisendom to the
| present. 20
| After another hymn, the Rev. DIR. Cox offered
prayer and the meeting closed with the benedicton