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 REDEMPTION. merchant vessels, and where no Christian missionary has ever gone, there lived an aged negro. He was often employed by ship captains; though in this way he had often mixed with Englishmen, he had never heard of the true God. In the prospect of death which he knew must be approaching, he became very unhappy. Conscience began to assert its right to be heard, and he was made to feel that he was a sinner. But he be- ing ignorant of a Saviour, his convictions were altogether useless, and day by day his grief increased. Whilst retiring one day from his bodily 98 by Google Digitized by