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( 29 ) Got bless you all, and bring you to heaven at last.'

It was my stated custom, when I met to converse with those friend, to begin with prayer, and reading a portion of the Scripture.

When this was ended, I told the people present that the providence of God had brought this young man for a time under my ministry: and that finding him very seriously disposed, and believing him to be very sincere in his religious profession, I had resolved on baptizing him, agreeable to his own wishes. I added, that I had now brought him with me to join in Christian conversation with us: for, as in old times, they that feared the Lord spake often one to another a testimony that they thought upon his name, (Mal. iii. 16.) so I hoped we were fulfilling a Christian and brotherly duty in that assembling for mutual education.

Addressing my elf to the Negro, I said, 'William, tell me, who made you?'

'Got, the goot Father.'

'Who redeemed you?'

'Jesus, his dear Son who died for me.'

'Who sanctified you?

'The Holy Ghost, who teach me to know the goot Father, and his dear Son Jesus.'

'What was your state by nature?'

'Me wicked sinner, me know noting but sin, me do noting but sin, my soul more black tan my body.'

Has any change taken place in you since then?'

'Me hope so, Massa; but me sometimes afraid no.'

'If you are changed, who changed you?'

'Got the Father; Jesus his dear Son; and Got the Holy Spirit.'

'How was any change brought about in you?'

'Got made me a slave when me was a young little boy.'

'How, William, would you say God made you a slave?

'No, Massa, no: the mean God let me be made a