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 as it was in itself, thousands, and tens of thousands, have been brought out of the darkness of heathenism to a knowledge of the true God and Savior. Among the slaves. of the United States, for instance, it is stated by Dr. Baird, that there are no fewer than 300,000 church members — one-tenth of the whole number, children included (a larger proportion of religious professors, we suspect, than would be found in most countries of Christian Europe); and in the State of South Carolina alone, as stated by Freeman, there are upwards of 40,000 communicants belonging to the slave populations. Is not here manifest the hand of Divine Goodness and Wisdom, bringing light out of darkness and peace out of pain?