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Gradually and imperceptibly the strange, silent, patient man, who was ready to bear every one’s burden, and sought help from none,- who stood aside for all, and came last, and took least, yet was foremost to share his little all with any who needed,- the man who, in cold nights, would give up his tattered blanket to add to the comfort of some woman who shivered with sickness, and who filled the bas- kets of the weaker ones in the field, at the terrible risk of coming short in his own measure,- and who, though pursued with unrelenting cruelty by their common ty- rant, never joined in uttering a word of reviling or cursing,- this man, at last, be- gan to have a strange power over them; and, when the more pressing season was past, and they were allowed again their Sundays for their own use, many would gather together to hear from him of Jesus. They would gladly have met to hear, and pray, and sing, in some place, together; but Legree would not permit it, and more than once broke up such attempts, with oaths and brutal execrations,- so that the blessed news had to circulate from individual to individual. Yet who can speak the simple joy with which some of those poor outcasts, to whom life was a joyless journey to a dark unknown, heard of a compassionate Re- deemer and a heavenly home? It is the statement of missionaries, that, of all races of the earth, none have received the Gospel with such eager docility as the Afri- can. The principle of reliance and unquestioning faith, which is its foundation, is more a native element in this race than any other; and it has often been found among them, that a stray seed of truth, borne on some breeze of accident into |
