ence to the anti-slavery cause has been such as God can approve?

B. Certainly, certainly I do, or I should have taken a different course.

F. It may be that I am wrong, but for a long time I have felt that you were not acting consistently as a minister of the gospel, in reference to the poor, down-trodden slave.

B. General assertions, and unqualified remarks, you know, prove nothing, br. Farrington. Now if I have erred in my course, the only way for you to convince me of my error is, to proceed to particulars; and in the spirit of Christian kindness to point out the ways. in which you think I have not acted consistently in regard to this subject. My mind, I trust, is open to conviction, and if you can show me that I am wrong in my course, I will cheerfully and immediately alter it, and will be grateful to you for assisting me in seeing my duty more clearly, and acting more understandingly.

F. I admire the spirit you manifest, and do believe you wish to do that which is right; and I also feel that my motives in seeking this conversation with you are good; and therefore,

according to your desire, I will point out some ways in which I think you have not been consistent. In the first place then, it seems to me very inconsistent in you as a minister, to refuse to preach plainly against that aggravated and abominable iniquity, slavery. I believe the Bible denounces slavery; and that it is as much the duty of the watchmen on Zion's walls to warn the people against this sin, as any other.

B. Have I never preached against slavery? What was the subject of my discourse on Fast day?

F. I believe you did mention it then, among the other sins of the nation; but what I mean is, preach whole sermons against it, and let the people know that you are a strong abolitionist; the same as Mr. Blarney, of Trotland, does.

B. Mention it among other sins! Why the greater portion of the morning's sermon was about the heinousness of slavery; and I expressed myself so strongly that many of our people, as you are aware, thought I went too far. Deacon Vuel was so offended, that he said "if he had known that I was going to

meddle with the slavery question, he would have staid at home; and that if I preached in that manner again, he would take his hat, and leave the meeting-house."

F. Well, but deacon Vuel you know is a regular pro-slavery man, dyed in the wool. He is behind the age; and isn't worth minding. But why don't you preach like Mr. Blarney? He comes out!

B. Stop a moment. Would you have me do as he has done? Like him keep bringing the subject before the people till divisions arise in the church, and a scene be enacted here similar to that which has taken place in Trotland?

F. Perhaps br. Blarney has been impru dent, and sometimes pressed his point rather too hard; but I believe he is a praying man, and has the cause of the poor slave deeply at heart. I don't think I ever heard him pray without remembering the slave in his chains.

B. Do not fly off in a tangent from the question. You have not answered me. Do you want me to pursue the same course here, that he has at Trotland?

F. Why! I don't want any trouble in the church. I do not desire you to do exactly as he has done, but I do wish you would preach as heartily against slavery as he does.

B. Heartily! Why I am sure I hate slavery from my heart, and when I preach against it, I preach with all my heart. How does Mr. Blarney preach?

F. PREACH!!! I wish you could hear him once. His eyes flash fire; and his very soul burns with the wrongs of the poor, degraded slaves. And the way he denounces. slave-holders. I tell you I should pity any slaveholder that should happen to hear him. He says they are "robbers, murderers, cutthroats, pirates, licentious brutes, incarnate DEVILS, monsters in the shape of human beings, reeking with HUMAN blood, and revelling in the tears, and stripes, and groans, and wrongs, and miseries of the wretched." Such plain dealing you know excites the people, and leads them to look into the subject of slavery.

B. Do you wish me to call slaveholders such names?

F. I believe they deserve them.

B. But do you wish me to call them so in the pulpit?

F. As long as they deserve them, I do. B. Do Do you think denouncing them in that manner has any tendency to lead them to renounce slavery?

F. I cannot say as to that, but whether it would or not, I think it would awaken an interest among the people.

B. So do I. I think it would awaken

very much such an interest as there has been at Trotland. You said you never heard Mr. Blarney pray without remembering] the slave. Do you think it was right for him invariably to pray for the slave ?

F. To be sure I do. I shouldn't think it right if he did not.

B. Did you ever hear him remembering the heathen?

F. Oh yes! many times.
B. Was that right?

F. Was what right?

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B. Was it right for him to pray and not remember the wretched, idolatrous heathen? F. He feels an interest for them. At the last concert