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  way to this, by raiing up thee perons, and ordering the remarkable, concurring circumances and events which have been mentioned ; and there is, mo probably, no other inance in America, where o many things conpire to point out a miion of this kind, with uch encouragement to purue it; may it not be hoped it will have the patronage and aiance of all the pious and benevolent ?  ʻ And it is humbly propoed to thoe who are convinced of the iniquity of the  ; and are enible of the great inhumanity and cruelty of enlaving so many thouands of our fellow men every year, with all the dreadful and horrid attendants ; and are ready to bear teimony again it in all proper ways, and do their utmo to put a op to it : Whether they have not a good opportunity of doing this, by chearfully contributing, according to their ability, to promote the miion proposed : And whether this is not the be compenation we are able to make the poor Africans, for the injuries they are receiving conantly by this unrighteous practice, and all its attendants.  ʻ But, aide from this conideration, may it not be hoped that all who are heartily praying, ʻThy kingdom come,’ will liberally contribute to forward this attempt to end the glorious gopel of the bleed God, to the nations who now worhip fale gods, and dwell in the habitations of cruelty, and the land of the hadow of death : Epecially, ince the King of  has promied that whosoever parts with any thing in this world, for the ’s ake, hall receive manifold more in this preent time ; and in the world to come,  life everlaing.  Newport, Rhode-Iland, Augu 31, 1773. Ezra Stiles, Samuel Hopkins.’    In