The Religious Instruction of the Slaves in the West India Colonies Advocated And
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To such persons we may say, " ' Choose you whom you will serve : if the Lord be God, follow him; if Baal, follow him. ' If you attack Christianity as the 20 mischievous agent of immorality, then be Christiaus in name no longer, and go over to the purer and more peaceful Paganism of the slaves you rule ; but if you refuse, then propitiate an injured Christianity, and acknowledge that you have been ignorant of its nature, and that you have mistaken all its tendencies. " That is the only alternati...ve for such persons, whose judgment, not whose settled principles, we may charitably hope to be in fault; but for you whom I now address, the confidence which you have in the beneficial influence of religious instruction upon the Negro population of the Colonies has a full justification in open and acknowledged facts and a long and extensive experience. What has so generally raised the religious slaves into confidence and offices of trust but their improved character? What has ren- dered them more healthy, another fact, but their temperance ?
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