Year: 1860

OF life. In their rellg1ous activities they
are equal if not superior to others around
them, especially that portion of them who
are in sympathy with the Presbyterian
Church, for though that church, as such,
has done but little for them pecuniarily,
yet for a true and rigorous Christianity, it
stands pre-eminent. Hence they are num-
bered as among the most earnest in this
city to extend the triumphs of religious
truth


The Union Meeting for prayer for Sab
bath Schools, which is held in the after
noon of the first Sabbath in each month,
originated with them, and has been fol-
lowed with increasing interest by most of
the Sabbath Schools throughout the city
Some precious seasons have occurred, and
some redemptions have been made, which
reflect on our brethren much Christian
praise.


am told that at one of these Union
meetings re Gently, it was remarked by one
of their prominent white brethren, while
giving credit for his own conversion, that
the religious joy they now experienced
was the result, through the blessing of God,
of the activity, zeal, propriety, and Christ
ian fitness of the colored Presbyterian
Church. if this testimony be true, of
which have no doubt, what a noble evil
dence have you, sir, that your cause, my
cause, and the cause of millions in this
land, is in the ascendant. We may fear
no traducers in the shape of thousands of
O'Conors when thus we have truth and
God on our side. o! that our people
would make haste and learn this sublime
truth. Then will that glorious prediction
be acknowledged, even by those who are
yet but half our friends, that around the
moral center of the nation we shall ulti.
mattel ly tenaciouely y cling. Yea, more than
this-we shall ultimately be that center,
and thus the crowning glory of the world.
| am aware that it is advanced that the in
tellectual wealth of the world eminently
belongs to the white man, and that in that
black man must ever be the subordinate
power. And suppose we grant even this,
which, by the way, is far from being prov
ed, though it is advanced in most eminent
circles, and sometimes without rebuke in
the presence of our most eminent and in
telligent men, as was done last May by
Rev Drs, Smith and Cuyler at the ami.
versary of that perfect nondeserl pt-so- called
African Civilization society, in DR.. Cheev-
er's church, (which, by the way, may new
or disgrace that sacred edifce again, as it
is now nearly G7aled out.) There those
gentlemen averred that the power, the SUI
perior functions of the brain, belonged to
the white man, but the heart-its glory
to the black For myself, as a mere mat
ter of statement, / make no demur; but,
as a truth, it is perhaps giving us on the
one side more than our due, and on the
other less than we claim. But if indeed
we have with us the heart, if Gods word
be true, there is in reserve for us triumph,
a glory beyond the conception of heart or
tongue now to describe, for in that promis-
ed new revelation of things, when God
shall have come down out of heaven to
earth, by the UNIVERSAL reign of his everlast-
ing light, truth, and love, then only those
who reflect the heart power of, the word
shall stand in the light and glory of that
reigning-the Blessed Conqueror's. We
shall not then suffer by the parallel, if we
do so now by the power Of human pride.
God and justice will then regulate the mat.
ter.


But must stop here, lest | should bur-
den your columns, and leave what / still
have to say for another occasion.


JAMES NEWTON GLOUCESTER.