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18 Missionary Society," which was constituted at Richmond, Virginia, in 1815, was no exception to the rule. Lott Cary, Let me quote here a paragraph from Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit, Vol. VI, p. 583, (Ed. 1860, published by Robert Carter and Brother, New York.) The paragraph appears in an article which the publisher takes from Taylor's Memoirs.—Missionary Heroes and Martyrs.

"In 1850, the late Rev. Eli Ball of Virginia, visited all the Liberian Baptist Missionary Stations, as agent of the Southern Baptist Missionary Convention, and, with considerable difficulty, ascertained the spot where Lott Cary was buried. The next year, a small marble monument was sent out, and placed over the grave, with the following inscription:—

"On the front of the monument was—

On the reverse—

That is, indeed, a remarkable utterance, coming from the Southern Baptist Missionary Convention, in the year 1851. the chief spirit in that organization, and Mr. Wil-