Year: 1860


Father in order that by our due improve
ment of them we may be benefited
both here and hereafter. Although
| shall shortly be gone from amongst you,
yet you are just as morally bound to prac-
tice in my absence all that I have endeav-
ored fervently to inculcate upon you as
though / were present Be Christians in
practice, not merely in name. Hold to
this rational and gospel view, that religion
does not consist in words, in physical ex-
elements, in disorderly or Baal-like worship
| (thes spirits of the prophets, unlike the ancient
Heather priests.and priestesses, are subject
to the prophets,) but in power, impressing
the heart, and exhibiting itself in our eve-
ryday walk. Love one another as have
loved you all. Let all bitterness, and
wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil
speaking, be put away from you, with all
malice, and be ye kind one to another, ten
der-hearted, forgiving one another, even as
God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you.


You cannot but be aware of the deep in
terest which / have ever manifested in your
children. therefore afectionately and
earnestly beseech you to "train them up
in the way wherein they should CO." SO
that when they are old they may look
back with pleasure on the dutiful care
which you evinced in leading them into
the paths of uprightness, and therefore
placing them in position to be of the num-
Der of those who have "the promise of the
life that now is, and of that which is to
come" Send them regularly to school,
and do not practically turn your backs up
on the educational advantages of which,
with no trouble whatever to you, they can
become the recipients. If you do, you can
be justly charged with injuring them, and
rendering them more likely to become use
less members of society than those whose
parents are faithfully discharging their nat
ural duties towards them. Cherish in them. |
ye mothers, spirit of answering loyalty
to the British Crown. So long as they for
tunately remain obdient subjects of it, they
will always have rights which it will feel
itself religiously bound to respect I'M
press them with the fact that its laws are
not responsible for the anomalous, irraton-
al, and absurd prejudice which all of US
have more or less experienced, as well
among those who profess and call them
selves Christians as among those who do
not. Continue to be respectable, indus
trious, well-behaved citizens, for geur er-
rors and bad conduct will be magnifed
and placed in as uncharitable point of
view as will subserve the predetermined
purpose of creating the ungodly impress
sion, SO much sympathised with by many
in spite of the abundant evidence to the
contrary, that you are naturally inferior to
the white race, and incapable OF any ad-





Kindly accept, dear brethren, my assur-
ance that 1 shall ever remember you at the
Throne of Grace, and, if we may not be
permitted to meet again in the flesh, may
it be that on that great day of all days, you,
and each one of you, both pastor and peo-
pie, may be on the right hand Of that Sa-
viour "whom to know is life everlasting"
and afterwards inhabit those celestial
realms where there are pleasures for ever
more, and where we shall never be under
the necessity of performing the disagreed
BILE duty of parting, as I, in the providence
of God, must shortly do.


Finally, brethren, be perfect, be of good
comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and
the God of Love and Peace shall be with
you. 1pray God your whole spirit and
soul be preserved blameless unto the COM
ing of our Lord Jesus Christ.


remain, my dear friends,


Yours affectionately,


RoBT, GoRpoy.