Page:Eleventh annual report of the Association for the Religious Instruction of the Negroes, in Liberty County, Georgia.djvu/40

36 If any man has put himself to the pains of a little observation, he must be convinced that there is a turning of the minds of men to this work and duty over all our country. The North and West have felt the influence of our action. They will feel it more. We are on the great path-way of duty marked out for us in the Providence and in the Word of God. We are on the ground, we know it, we feel it. We surely have hope for the future. The Lord—in whom is all our trust—who has so favoured this cause will continue to do so. This Association should remember that it not only has a responsibility to the field at home which it endeavors to occupy, but that it has a responsibility to the field abroad. We should humbly and fervently pray that God may "establish the work of our hands," that others may behold our success, not by our own might or power, but by the Spirit of the Lord, and be encouraged to begin and to persevere, in the same good work.—"Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make us perfect in every good work, to do His will, working in us, that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ: to Whom be Glory for ever and ever, Amen."