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 PASTORAL LETTER, 
 
 OK THE * 
 
 RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF THE SLAVES 
 
 OF 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCtt 
 
 IN 
 THE STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, 
 
 PRKPAnXB 
 
 AT THE REQUEST OF THE COSfVEXTTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CHURCHES OF THE DIOCESE. 
 TO WHICH IS APPENDED 
 
 ^ TABLE OF SCEIPTURE LESSONS, TREPARED IN CONFORMITV WITH THE RESOLU- 
 TION OF THE CONVENTION. 
 
 By NATHANIEL BOWEN, D. D. 
 
 Bishop of the Pro. Epig. Church in South-Carolina. 
 
 PRINTED BY A. E. MILLER, 
 No. 4 Broad-street, 
 
 1835. 
 
EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE CONVENTION OF THE 
 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SOUTH-CAROLINA, HELD 
 IN FEBRUARY, 1834, AND FEBRUARY, 1835. 
 
 Journal of \2,2A, page 37 — "On motion of the Rev. Mi-. Young, Resolved, That a 
 Committee of three Clerical, and three Lay Delegates of this Convention, be 
 appointed to take into consideration the subject of the religious instruction of our 
 slave population, and to report to the next annual Convention of the Church of the 
 Diocese." 
 
 "The following Committee were appointed, viz : the Rev. Thos. John Young, the 
 Rev. C. E. Gadsden, D. D. the Rev. P. Trapier, Mr. Stephen EHiott, Jr., James H. 
 Ladson, Esq. and the Hon. Lieut. Governor, C. C. Pinckney, Esq." 
 
 Journal of \Z'^f>,page 39— "The Rev. Mr. Young, from the Committee on the in- 
 struction of the coloured population, made a report at lensjth." 
 
 "After discussion, on motion of Mr. Robt. Barnwell, the report was accepted." 
 "The resolutions contained in the report, were then considered, and after some 
 modification, were adopted as follows," viz : 
 
 1. '■•Resolved, That the Bishop be respectfully requested to address a Pastoral 
 Letter ou the subject, (embracing so much of the report, as he shall deem expedient) 
 to the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese." 
 
 2. " Resolved, That the Bishop be respectfully requested to prepare, or cause to be 
 prepared, a Catechism and Scripture Lessons, for the use of the teachers (Clerical or 
 Lay) of our coloured population." 
 
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CLERGY AND LAITY 
 
 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 
 
 Brethpen — 
 
 THE reluctance with which, in compliance with the desire 
 of the Convention, as shown by the extracts given from the 
 Journal of their proceedings, I should otherwise have pro- 
 ceeded to address you on the subject of "the religious instruc- 
 tion of our slave population," has been obviated in no consid- • / i 
 erable degree, by the sense with which I am myself deeply 
 affected, of its claims too long generally disregarded, and the 
 strong sympathy, in the feeling with which I am myself pos- 
 sessed respecting it, of many of the most wise and judicious, 
 and at the same time, extensively interested, of the proprie- 
 tors, embraced by the limits of our communion. There is, 
 however, another, and more obvious reason, why any 
 such reluctance, on my part, might be waived. Acting, on 
 this occasion, as the mere organ of the Convention, and 
 having nothing to do, but to report to you their views, I can- 
 not but feel the responsibihty of my agency to be very light, 
 and that it belongs to others, rather than myself, to vindi- 
 cate and make good with their brethren, generally, almost 
 every thing which this communication will be found to 
 convey. The subject, however, as they have presented it, 
 will, I flatter myself, meet with no other, than at least a 
 friendly reception. 
 
 The sentiment which the Committee of the Convention, 
 in the beginning of their report on this subject, have ex- 
 
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 pressed, is strongly entertained by many, and will have it# 
 correctness disputed by none. " To Episcopalians of South 
 Carolina, say they, the subject of the rehgious instmction of 
 our slave population, is one of deep and vital interest. 
 Formhig as we do, a large majority of the slave-holders in 
 the low country, we, more than other denominations of 
 Christians, are bound to inquire into the duty and means of 
 affording such instruction to our slaves, as shall make them 
 wise unto salvation." "Among us, must begin the good 
 \vork, which, if entered upon with an humble reliance upon 
 divine grace, must result in a harvest of abundant blessing 
 to the Church and her members, both now and at that day, 
 when we shall be called upon to give an account of our 
 stewardship." 
 
 Witli respect to the duty of the religious instruction of 
 our slave population, I do not allow myself to question the 
 existence among Christian people, of a common persua- 
 sion of its imperative obligation, to the whole extent of its 
 practicability. "Slaves" (says one of our most respectable 
 and exemplary proprietors,) " are human beings ; hke the 
 rest of our fellow creatures they must die, and render to 
 God an account of their actions." "No Christian will deny 
 the importance of religious instruction to slaves. On this 
 head, there is no difference of opinion."* " If I know my 
 own heart, and understand my own motives," (says another 
 distinguished planter, an influential member of the House 
 of Representatives, in the Legislature of the State, and to 
 whom, in the last capacity, the pubhc are indebted for an 
 important instrumentality in procuring the enactment of 
 some provisions of law most hapi)ily adapted to the moral 
 amelioration of our slaves,) "so far from obstructing the 
 development of moral and religious feehngs in the slave by 
 any measure, I would the rather lend my aid towards its 
 encouragement; and as I have aheady declared, would glad- 
 
 " Essay oil tlie Managernmt of Slavef, &c. br VVhiieinarsh B. Sc^|jiook, pp. 14, \->. 
 
ly appropriate the tithe of 1x13' income to the attainment of 
 an object in every point of view so eminently desireable."* 
 
 The importance and dcsireahleness of the reUgious in-' 
 struction of slaves, must be understood to involve its reli- 
 gious obligation. The writers whom I have quoted have 
 meant, I have reason to believe, to assert nothing less. They 
 have but expressed that wliich is, of course, the common 
 sentiment of Christian people. The argument of which the 
 mind of the Christian is in possession, whether resting on the 
 letter of Scripture precept, or drawn from the principles of 
 Christianity, is complete to demonstrate the indispensable 
 duty of the father and master, in every instance, to have his 
 hoasehold, of whomsoever it may consist, to the utmost that 
 he can, kept, in the fear and knowledge of the Lord ; aad he 
 who will make no use, to such an effect, of the authority with 
 which Providence has invested him, or will neither by in- 
 struction or example, endeavour that his household shall 
 learn, and he faithful to religious obligation, and be set in 
 the way of their immortal mterest, as the believer of the 
 Gospel cannot but conceive it, is certainly unmindful of that 
 which his own religious consistency, soundness, and safety 
 should be understood to imply. 
 
 To him, who is not, through the faith and profession of tJit 
 Gospel^ yet prepared to admit the demands of religion on 
 the subject, considerationsof humanity may be addressed, co 
 which he needs not be supposed to be insensible. It is, 
 often, not without good reason asserted, that, in general the 
 condition of the slave among us, in comparison with the 
 aboriginal condition from which he was taken, as well as 
 that of the labouring poor of inost nations of the earth, al- 
 though not slaves, is enviably good. Both in a temporal and 
 moral point of view, this superiority of his condition must, 
 I believe, be admitted. Its circumstances are those of great 
 comparative elevation. Many of the arts of civilization, and 
 
 • Letter to the Hon. Whitemari-h B. ISeatMook, Esq. by Edward R. Laurens, ii, 9. 
 
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 the means of comfort are known to him, and are generally 
 within the reach of his attainment : while by virtue of the 
 discipline and control to which the innate evil of his na- 
 ture is forcibly subjected, as well as by the gradual influence 
 of the kindness and good treatment to which not even he 
 can be insensible, he becomes, to a considerable extent, a 
 humanized and ameliorated being. Still, while he is denied 
 the knowledge of God according to the Scri})tures, and as 
 involved in it, those consolations and hopes of religion, without 
 which, happiness cannot be known in any circumstances of 
 human existence, his condition remains, whatever may be 
 its comparative advantages, one which it is melancholy and 
 painful to contemplate. If it is temporally better, it is spir- 
 itually worse than that even of the savage freedom from 
 which he has been rescued. In that state he had not 
 been hopeless as to Christian illumination. For him, as for 
 all the human race, the command had been given, and must 
 in his good time who gave it, have been executed, "to preach 
 the Gospel to every creature." In its progress through the 
 nations, the sound which is gone out into all the world, must 
 have come to his ears. Even into the deep darkness of the 
 shadow of death, which had enwrapt him, "the light which 
 lighteneth every man that cometh into the world," must 
 have one day shone. Deny your slaves the privilege of 
 access to the means of Christian knowledge, and you charac- 
 terize their condition, by a moral hopelessness, to which not 
 even the roamer of the Wilderness, and the tenant of the 
 forest, are consigned. 
 
 One other view of the case may be presented. In what 
 degree moi al obligation exists for your slaves you know not, 
 or how it may be qualified. Yet they are placed where 
 responsibility is imposed, and where the violation of it has 
 its immediate penal consequences. Offences against the 
 moral law, their ignorance does not excuse, and you annex 
 present penalties to the crimes of which they are guilty, at 
 once against it and your autliority. Shall they have no 
 
knowledge of higher and more solemn sanctions to restralii 
 them from evil, than those which your will has instituted, 
 no motive but the fear of their enforcement, to in Hue nee them, 
 and yet be expected to be in all things faithful, upright, and 
 pure ? You refer them not to God, and they are without him 
 in the ivorld. Providence has subjected them to your con- 
 trol and authority, and they undoubtedly are bound to obey 
 the one, and be subjected to the other. Yet shall they know 
 no reason for either, but that of the vanity or the bitter pre- 
 sent effects to them, of resistance ? Will you det)rive the 
 temptation to resistance of none of its natural strength ? That 
 temptation, perhaps, incites them to the crime, of which 
 the last and bitterest penalty of the law, is the consequence. 
 Shall humanity not plead for them, that they may be saved 
 from the power of this temptation? Shall they not have the 
 terrorsof the Lord in aid of those of men, to restrain them from 
 their ruin ? And more — shall not humanity be permitted to 
 plead for them, that they may have the benign and cheering 
 influeiK^e of Christian instruction, to reconcile them to their 
 lot of necessary, inevitable, and not intolerable restraint — 
 to infuse the happiness of " subjection, not only for wrath, 
 but also tor conscience sake," and to illumine the otherwise 
 gloomy scenes of their earthly toil and duty, with the hope 
 of the reward in Heaven, that awaits alike the fidelity of 
 the servant, as of the master, at the hands of him who has 
 assigned to every one his lot and portion upon earth ? 
 
 Passing, thus, by that part of the subject, which would 
 consist of reasons of religious obligation given, for the Chris- 
 tian instruction of our slaves, I would almost as transiently 
 ti-eat the question of its policy. Experience has placed this 
 beyond the possibihty of reasonable dispute. , The re})ort 
 of the Committee, contains statements on this point, whose 
 authenticity and correctness are perfectfiiUy unquestiona- 
 ble. " As early (say they) as the year 1702, the vene- 
 rable Society (in England) for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel in Foreign Parts, sent out their first Missionary to 
 
this State, with particular directions for instructing the slave 
 population of the country." " From that period, the work 
 has been carried on, with varied success." 
 
 " An appeal to facts will confirm the assertion, that when- 
 ever the Gospel is preached in all its purity to these people, 
 and rehgious instruction afforded, immense good has resul- 
 ted , both ta the master and the slave. The effects produced 
 by the labours of the Missionaries and Catechists of the 
 Sopiety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 
 has been already stated. In the West-India Islands, the 
 exertions of the Moravian Missionaries, have been crowned 
 with eminent success. In the Island of St. Thomas — in 
 that of Jamaica, Barbados and St. Kitts, they had the satis- 
 faction to find such effects follow their labours, as con- 
 vinced the Planter's of their advantage, and induced warm 
 expressions from the]n, of gratitude, confidence and esteem." 
 
 "'In our owj^ country also, facts prove the beneficial re- 
 sults of proper religious instruction. In the insurrection of 
 1712, in New- York, only two of the scholars of the Cate- 
 chist of the Epi^opal Church, were even accused of being 
 en'>aged. One of them was proved innocent, and the other (not 
 a baptized person,) was not engaged in the murder commit- 
 ted. At the time of the contemplated insurrection in Charles- 
 ton in 1822, there were 316 coloured persons, communicants 
 in our Episcopal Churches in that city, and a large, not ascer- 
 tained number of worshippers not communicants, not one 
 of whom was implicated ; and indeed the discovery of the 
 plot is to be attributed to the just sense of duty entertained 
 by individuals of that class, who were Episcopalians. The 
 experience of youiv Committee, warrant them to assert, that 
 the best ordtred, and most prosperous plantations, are those 
 where true religion flourishes among the slaves. On the 
 plantation of Mr. Clay, of Georgia,* a member of the Pres- 
 
 * Mr. Clay's Pamphlet, is wortliy of general attention. If his plan may not be 
 thought to be generally admissible or practicable, it will at least ahew that success in 
 this important matter is attainable. — .\. B. 
 
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 l)3'terian Cliurch, (whose admirable • details of a plan for 
 the moral improvement of negroes on plantations,' ought to 
 be read by every planter, and, who with a truly Christian 
 zeal and fidelity, has devoted himself to the moral and re- 
 ligious improvement of his slaves,) the orderly behaviour 
 and happy condition of his people, are such as to cheer the 
 heart of the philanthropist, and put to silence the cavils of 
 the Northern fanatic and abohtionist. " If every body of 
 negroes in the Southern States, (said an advocate of the Co- 
 lonization Society to Mr. Clay, after looking through the 
 arrangement of his plantation) was disciplined and instruct- 
 ed as yours are, so far from wishing to colonize your slaves 
 in Africa, I should be glad to bring all the Africans to you." 
 They do more, and better work, with greater cheerfulness, 
 and in less time, than before he introduced religious instruc- 
 tion among them.* His factor's returns show that his income 
 has rather increased than diminished. On the plantation 
 of the Rev. Mr. Blodget, also of the Presbyterian Church in 
 St. Luke's Parish, the slaves are assembled regularly to 
 family prayers, morning and evening, and the result has 
 been, that, that plantation is one of the best conducted, and 
 most productive in proportion to the number of hands em- 
 ployed, of any in that Parish. The labours of the Metho- 
 dist Missionaries in St. Helena Parish, St. Luke's Parish, 
 St. Bartholomew's Parish, and on the Santee Rivers, have 
 been attended with such good effects, as to gain them the 
 confidence of the planters concerned." 
 
 "We might multiply instances, and state individual cases 
 without number, but suflicient has been said to prove, that 
 even were the duty not imj^erative, it would be sound policy 
 in the planttn-to use every exertion — to employ every lawful 
 means, to furnish his slaves with proper religious instruc- 
 tion." 
 
 tin a letter from ono of the members of liis family, if is said— "We have great rea- 
 son to feel that the blessing of God attends these eflforts— our people are every year 
 more contented, rheerful, and industrious. There is a decided improvement iu the 
 morals of the w omen and the men, so far as we can judge." 
 
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The evidence thus given of the effect of religious instruc- 
 tion, in the restraint })ut by it upon the worst passions of our 
 nature, in its effect so to hunoanize, and soften and change, 
 that temperament in the slave, which would have instigated 
 him to deeds of the foulest crime, is evidence of its moral 
 influence in the whole extent, in which it makes men "wise 
 unto salvation." It bes])eaks " the fruits of the spirit, which 
 are love, joy, peace, long suffering, patience, gentleness, meekness 
 and hrotherbj kindness. It shows unequivocally the eflect of 
 the inhibition, received by faith into the heart; ''Let all 
 bitterness and wrath, and anger, he put away from you, with all 
 malice'' — and of that important apostolic instruction — " ser- 
 vants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the 
 jlesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of yo%ir heart, as 
 unto Christ ; with good will, doing service, as to the Lord, and 
 not to men : knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, 
 the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or freeJ" 
 It is when effects and influences such as these are mani- 
 fest, that we are authorized to pronounce with confidence 
 on the utility and success of the rehgious instruction of the 
 slave population of the country — and, of course, to assert 
 that rehgious duty and pohcy, here go hand in hand. I am 
 by no means disposed hastily to attach importance to the 
 reports which are sometimes made to the religious pubhc, 
 by various denominations, of the numbers of people ol 
 colour, who attend religious ordinances — the crowds of 
 them gathering at appointed places of religious resort, and 
 joming their voices in loud and clamorous devotions. 
 The proper inquiry is, what eflPect has the hearing of the 
 word, and the instniction that is given him, upon the tem- 
 per and the life of the negro. " Is he a better man in the 
 condition in which Providence has placed him ^ Is he more 
 honest, more temperate, more faithful, more quiet and con- 
 tented .'' Is he better in his domestic relations ? Is he more 
 kind and just, and friendly in his deportment towards his 
 fellow slaves .'' Is he more sensible of the obligation of grati- 
 tude and obedience towards his master ? Do his whole life 
 
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 and conversation, evince that lie is " transformed by the 
 rcmwing of his mind ?" Is he by the constraint of divine 
 precept, as conveyed to him by the mouth of his rehgious 
 instructors, from the word of God, so far as may be reason- 
 ably expected of him, in all things, happily and cheerfully 
 conformed to the necessity of his condition, and through the 
 steady, diligent, faithful, peaceful, performance of all its 
 duties, seeking, as the disciple and servant of Christ, to 
 *^ tvorJc out his eternal salvation ?^^ 
 
 " We are aware" (say the Committee,) " that it has been 
 a common comi)laint among planters, that those of then- 
 slaves, who professed to be followers of Christ, were gene- 
 rally the most neghgent of their duty, and the most difficult 
 lo manage. But the religion of Jesus, cannot produce this 
 result. It has proceeded from a ivant of true religion. The 
 master leaves his slave to procure instruction where he can, 
 most frequently from those as ignorant as himself, and then 
 complains, that religion produces what is the fruit of its 
 abuse. Tliere are hypocrites and supersthious per.-ons 
 among all classes of society. But let the master exert liiin- 
 self to give or obtain for his slaves proper religious instruc- 
 tion, and he will find the followers of the Cross of Christ, the 
 most industrious, honest, submissive, and well ordered of his 
 charge." 
 
 The facts already adduced,* to sliew the happy practical 
 efficacy of the religious instruction of our slaves, speak in- 
 telligibly, and with demonstration for themselves. In many 
 other instances the same result admits of being satisfactorily 
 shewn. From a voluminous report of a Committee of the 
 British House of Commons, ordered to be pubhshed in 1832, 
 I might adduce much convincing evidence of the happiest 
 efficacy of the religious instruction of negro slaves ; evidence 
 irresistible, to shew that these people duly trained in the 
 
 *The facts stated on page 8, in relation to Moravian Missionaries in the Britisli 
 West Indies, are taken from a History of Moravian Missions, by Rev. J. Holmes, 
 from which the information relative to the other Islands, has been derived. 'A note 
 »f Uie Committee to tjiis effect, was omitted to be iaserted iu its proper place. 
 
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 school of Christ, have been made lo a great extent, and 
 through \ery numerous plantations, his disciples not in 
 name onhj and in tongue, hut in deed and in truth. If less ot 
 the influence of religious privilege, than was to be looked 
 lor, has been reported to us from those possessions, since the 
 extraordinary measures of the British Goveniment in rela- 
 tion to them have been carried into effect, it is admissible to 
 ask, if this be not the natural effect of a, perhaps, prema- 
 ture and too sudden investment of the slaves, with a degree 
 of freedom for which they were not adequately prepared. 
 Even, however, under the trying circumstances, into which 
 these unfortunate people have been thrown, by a legisla- 
 tion, which dealing what was thought to be good to one 
 class of subjects, has too slightly, perhaps, estimated the 
 claims of others, we are warranted in asserting that the effect 
 of religious instruction among them, has been most hap- 
 pily restraining and conservative. It were, however, but 
 unnecessarily to lengthen this communication, to quote trom 
 the mass of documents, of which the report referred to 
 consists, while observation and experience, supply us with 
 a testimony at once direct and sufficient, in the indisput- 
 able fact of a religious and moral character, of a peculiar 
 value, transmitted from the earliest subjects of religious in- 
 struction here, by the IMissionaries of the venerable So- 
 ciety of which the Committee have spoken, and the cer- 
 tain existence of a similar character now prevailing, where 
 similar means have been perseveringly employed to pro- 
 duce it. We may appeal, moreover, to any candid and 
 reasonable inquirer into the merits of the question, whether 
 the religious instruction of these people, be, according to 
 his own observation, an abortive benevolence or not — and 
 whether, as much at least, as circumstances would war- 
 rant to be looked for, has not been, and is not, and may 
 not be expected to be, its result. To whom much is given, of 
 him miuh will be required. Take the question with a reference 
 to the means and opportunity enjoyed, and the demand rea- 
 
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 sonably fovinded in them of improvement, and say whether 
 the comparison is indisputably much to the advantage of 
 the most favoured of those who collectively compose the 
 community, in wliich wo live. Inconsistenc}'" with profes- 
 sion, and abuse or neglect of privilege, the too little moral 
 influence of religion, its principles, offices and observances 
 upon life and conduct, are to be admitted and deplored, 
 among all ahke, who profess and call themselves Christians — 
 certainly not in a greater proportion, when the circum- 
 stances of their case are fairly considered, among those, 
 whose claim to be instructed is under consideration, than 
 among others. On this subject, I may be permitted 
 to adduce the testimon}^ of one, who though dead, is 
 well entitled, from his long and extensive experience of 
 it, to be heard: I mean the late venerable Minister of 
 the Baptist Church in this city. It is matter of painful 
 regret, that I have not his written words, in which to 
 convey the effect of his experience on his mind. It is, 
 however, perfectly recollected, that when, some few years, 
 before his death, he had expressed to me his concern for the 
 existence of a prejudice against the religious instruction of 
 our slave population, in the minds of respectable fellow-citi- 
 zens, as seeming to find its justification in unhappy facts 
 which had brought to light the crimes of some professing 
 Christian people, long successfully concealed from Ministers 
 and miistcrs by the plausible guise of religion, he declared 
 it (the delusion of fanaticism among these yjeople admitted, 
 for which others were more in fault than they, and the 
 treachery and deceit natural to the slave, allowed for) to be 
 the result of the long experience and observation of his 
 Ministry, that the practical iniiuence of Christian profession 
 and communion, was not by any means less, among them, 
 than among those with whom, under other circumstances, 
 he had so extensively been conversant. I adduce the testi- 
 mony of Dr. Furman, as that which is, on every account, 
 eminently entitled, on this subject, to carry with it authority. 
 
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 The views in which the Committee of the Coiiventioix 
 jiresented the im])orta.nt matter referred to them hy the 
 Convent io<i, might he more extensively spread he fore you ; 
 but enough, I persuade myself, has been, even in this cur- 
 sory exhibition of its cbiiras, adduced, to justify me without 
 detaining you from it longer, in proceeding to that, in which 
 tlie interest of the subject will be seen to be concentrated, 
 \\x : the inquiry in what manner the religious instruction of 
 our slaves should be conducted, in order that we may feel 
 that our Christian duty with respect to them is fulfilled, and 
 the happiness and comfort at once of themselves, and of 
 the communit3% secured. 
 
 The report of the Committee, exhibited this part of the 
 subject in con>;iderable variety and extent. I cannot but 
 earnestly commend the greater jiart of wliat they have said, 
 to the serious attention of all. 
 
 " In recommending the means to be employed for effecting 
 the proposed end, and winch, under existing circumstances, 
 may be considered the best calculated to do so, your Com- 
 mittee would first consider the persons most proper to be 
 eni^rsed in the work. These are: 
 
 " ]. Th; Clergy with their a.ssistants in Sunday Schools. 
 
 "2. Lay Catechists usefully employed in the primitive ages 
 of the Church, an<l now rendered absolutely necessary in 
 our Church by the small number of Clergy. 
 
 "3. The proprietors of slaves, or their agents or over- 
 seers, with the assistance of their families. 
 
 " 1. To the Clergy jiarticularly does it pertain to watch 
 for souls — to warn evenj man of the danger of living without 
 Christ in the world, to proclaim to all within the reach of 
 liis insti-uction, the glad tidings of salvation through a cruci- 
 fied and risen Redeemer, to guide and direct immortal souls 
 in the path of duty, to spend and be spent in the service of 
 their Lord. To the poor especially, they are sent, and the 
 slave has peculiar claims on their labours and their prayers. 
 The master may search the Scriptures for himself, and 
 unaided by man, may find out the way of salvation. The 
 
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 slave, by the circumstances of his condititin, and his igno- 
 rance, must depend uptin the instruction of others. The 
 responsibility of u Minister of Christ, in relation to our slave 
 population, is deep and solemn, and if properly discharged, 
 arduous in the extreme. In our low Country Parishes, it is 
 impossible for one individual to perform all that his heart, 
 and his judgment may direct, as necessary for the spiritual 
 well iieing of the souls conmiitted to his charge. But be- 
 cause he cannot do all that he would, shall he he idle on his 
 oars and do nothing ? God forbid ! he can do much, very 
 much for this portion of his flock. 
 
 " The first method which we would suggest to him, is the 
 establishment of Sunday Schools, in wliich, aided by the 
 pious of his flock, he may inculcate the plaui and simple 
 truths and precepts of the GospeL If the owners be duly 
 impressed with the importance of the religious instruction of 
 their slaves, he will find no difficulty in collecting a large 
 number. The School should be assembled before the morn- 
 inir service, or after it, and opened, and concluded with a 
 form of prayer taken from the prayer book, or such form as 
 may be prepared, or approved Ijy the Bishop. For the 
 children of the School, we would recommend the use of 
 ' Catechism No. 2,' of the Protestant Episcopal Sunday 
 School Union, (the Church Catechism, broken into short 
 questions and answers) and also such Catechism as may be 
 prepared, or be caused, as herein after proposed, to be pre- 
 pared, by the Bishop : the ' Scripture Cards,' or por- 
 tions of Scripture, illustrated by large Engravings, that 
 both the eye and the ear may be engaged : ' Watts' 
 Divine and Moral Songs, with his summary of the Ten 
 Commandments, and our Saviour's Golden rule,' and 
 * Short Prayers for morning and evening, adapted to the use 
 of children,' (published by the Protestant Episcopal Sunday 
 School Union.) The instruction of course to be altogether 
 oral." 
 
 "For the adults we would recommend, besides the Church 
 Catechism, that the teachers read a certain portion of Scrip- 
 
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 ture, (selected by the Minister,) and after giving a brief and 
 simple explanation of each verse, ask some plain questions on 
 what has been read, repeating them until the whole class 
 are able to answer them correctly. And that the teacher 
 may be enabled to explain properly such portions of Scrip- 
 ture, the Minister should meet them on some day in the 
 week, and furnish them by a lecture or otherwise, such di- 
 rections as may be necessai-y to aid them in their work. 
 We would also recommend that the Minister, once a month, 
 at the opening of the School in a brief address, suited to the 
 capacities of the scholars, dwell on some of the plain, but 
 necessary doctrines of the Gospel. After the regular ser- 
 vices of the white and coloured congregation united, perhaps 
 it may be well to assemble the slaves by themselves, and 
 after singing a hymn, giving it out line by line, address them 
 in a brief exhortation, concluding with prayer. A class 
 should be formed of the candidates lor Baptism, and the 
 Lord's Supper to be instructed by the Minister himself. With 
 respect to the Baptism of infants that must be left to the 
 discretion of the Minister concerned. By visiting them in 
 sickness and distress, he will manifest his interest in their 
 welfare, and be enabled, mider God, to influence them for 
 good. Above all, if he would be blessed in his labours, he 
 should be much in prayer for them. So far, our remarks 
 will apply equally to the Clcrg}'^ of the city and the country. 
 To the countr}^ Clerg}'man, another field of usefulness is 
 opened, which has been, and must continue to be blessed, if 
 properly and prayerfully occupied. Let him set apart cer- 
 tain days in each week, for visiting, with the consent of the 
 pr()})rietors, the plantations in his neighbourhood, assembling 
 the slaves for worship and instruction, and if time ])ermits, 
 Catechising the younger among them. He should not take 
 charge of a larger number of plantations than he can con- 
 veniently visit once a fortnight. We are aware, that in re- 
 commending this plan, we are making out a work of no 
 small magnitude. But we do so in the supposition that the 
 Clergy are willing to laboiir in their high and holy calling. 
 
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 and that fliey are ready to spend, and he spent in the work 
 of wiuniiig souls to Christ. We believe that with ordinary 
 health and talents, they may carry our proposed plans mto 
 effect." 
 
 " 2. But let the Clergy exert themselves to the utmost of 
 their strength and ability, yet, if they be unaided, but httle 
 will be effected, compared with what must remain undone. 
 The greatest number of plantations which a Clergyman 
 having charge of a Congregation could conveniently attend, 
 are seven or eight. Considering each plantation to average 
 fifty slaves capable of receiving instruction, he would be 
 enabled to instruct not more than three hundred and fifty, 
 or four hundred. How small a proportion do these form to 
 the actual number in many of our Country Parishes. In 
 one of them,* the statistics of which are before us, there 
 are upwards of six thousand slaves, between the ages of 10 
 and 100 years. On some plantations which one of your 
 Committee visited, he has found slaves of 70 or 80 years 
 of age, who had never had proclaimed to them the glad 
 tidings of salvation — who had never heard the preached 
 word. 
 
 "To remedy this deficiency of instruction, we would re- 
 commend, did the wants of our Church permit it, the em- 
 ployment of Clerg>'man of our Church, as Missionaries, 
 particularly to this class of our community ; as is the case 
 on the plantations of the Messrs. Clarkson, on the Wateree, 
 where one of our Clergy is, we trust, as usefully a^ he is 
 honorably employed. But years must elapse, we fear, be- 
 fore this desirable end can be accomplished. We cannot, 
 however, but indulge the hope, that the time is not far dis- 
 tant, when the circumstances of the Church will permit it, 
 and when the Lord will put it into the hearts of many of our 
 younger Clerg^^ to devote themselves to this interesting 
 work^ Until that period shall arrive, we would recommend 
 
 * St. Luke's Parish. 
 
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 to the planters of onr Church, the employment of Lay Cate^ 
 chi.-ts. These Catechists might he chosen from among the, 
 candidates for orders, or where these could not be obtained^ 
 from among some pious, but needy members of our Church, 
 lij the VVest-Iu(Ues, the labours of the Catecliists have been 
 hi. ssed, and we doubt not, that under proper regulations, 
 they would prove important auxiliaries to the Clergy in this 
 w ork. The Catechists should visit the plantations which 
 they might be engaged to attend, at appointed days and 
 fixed hours. They should not take charge of a larger num- 
 ber of })lantations, than would allow them to visit each, at 
 least once a week.* We would recommend the same course 
 of instruction to be pursued by them, under the direction of 
 t le Minister of the Parish, as recommended for the Sunday 
 8chf)ol teachers. Should Catechists be employed in the 
 i i mediate vicinity of the Minister of the Parish, so as to free 
 hiin from the duty of taking charge of any number of plan- 
 latioiis, he should visit each of those imder their care at 
 least once in three months. The Catechist should report to 
 the Minister of the Parish, and if the Parish be vacant, to 
 the Bishop." 1 will but add, he should in ever}' instance be 
 approved and licensed by the ecclesiastical authority. 
 
 " 3. We have spoken of the duty and plans to be adopted 
 by the Clergy and Lay Catechists — a still more important 
 link in the chain of the religious instruction of our slaves, is 
 to be considered, — the plan to be pursued by the proprietors 
 tlKnnselves, anrl their famdies — should they refuse their co- 
 0[»(Tation and aid, the labours of the Clergy and Catechists 
 wiil he comparatively of little avail ; at least, much less 
 good will be effected than if they united in the work." 
 
 "The espcrience of ages proves, that he who labours for 
 the spiritual improvement oi' his household, is not left ' with- 
 out vviUicss' — never labours altooether in vain. If in some 
 instances, h( tail, he has still, 'that which the world can 
 
 * In the Wesl'Indies, they are lequhed to visit each plantation three times a week, 
 
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 neither give, nor take away,' the consciousness of having 
 done his duty. In considering the plan of instruction wliich 
 your Committee may suggest, let each master of slaves ask 
 himself before God, is not this my duty ? And then let him 
 pursue it, convinced, that however great his discouragements 
 may be at first, by the blessing of God, great good must ul- 
 timately result. In the course to be recommended, he must, 
 to carry it into full effect, be aided by his family ; or should 
 he be so situated, as to be compelled to reside at a distance 
 from his slaves, by care in the choice of his agents and 
 overseers, and by particular directions to them, his own ac- 
 tive engagement in the work may be supplied." 
 
 The pious advice of the Connnittee, wliich in this part of 
 their report was given, that the slaves of every plantation 
 should be assembled twice every day for family worship, is 
 not here inserted, because it has seemed to propose more 
 than would be generally practicable, or than proprietors 
 could be induced to approve. It cannot be doubted, that so 
 far as it may be practicable, and proprietors may see it to be 
 good for them to atlopt it, the institution of such daily wor- 
 ship would have a beneficial mfiuence — anrl greatly contri- 
 bute to the promotion of sound and happy religion among 
 the slaves. Where tiie numbers are small, and the lands 
 over which they are dispersed for labour, are not too exten- 
 sive, it is presumable that Christian masters will cheerfully, 
 and fondly, adopt the practice of such a daily assembling of 
 their slaves — but as a general rule, it is scarcely to be ex- 
 pected, that it will receive the attention, which it is wished 
 that the suggestions of the Committee should command. 
 This final part of the report, closes with the following : 
 
 *' In conclusion, your Committee remark that they offer 
 this plan, merely as embodying suggestions, believing that 
 pious masters, Catechists, and the Ministers having charge 
 of the coloured people, on reflection, and after experience, 
 will be best qualified to decide wliether to adopt them, or 
 to mark out a plan for thenaselves. They commend their 
 
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 re})ort ti) the blessing of God, without which, all our efforts 
 will be in vain." 
 
 I have thus put before you, brethren, the sense of the Con- 
 ventlon of our Churches, on tlie subject of the religious in- 
 struction of our slaves — the Convention having by the dis- 
 posal they made of the report of their Committee, made its 
 contents to be the counsel which they thought good for all 
 of our communion. 
 
 Permit me to add to what the Committee so justly said 
 of the claims with which this subject so peculiarly addresses 
 itself to the Protestant Episcopalians of South-Carolina, that 
 for us, on another ground, the obligation exists, of deferring 
 no longer to give our utmost attention to the religious instruc- 
 tion of the slave population, subject to our care and authori- 
 ty. In some form or other, religion will make its way 
 among them. We cannot prevent by an}' vigilance which 
 we can use, their being taught that which we should not 
 desire,- or think it good that they should learn, nor can we 
 prevent the prevalence among them of the perversion and 
 delusion, that will make of them ready subjects of the worst 
 influences of fanaticism, unless we pre-occupy and guard 
 their minds, by means of such religious instruction as we 
 believe to be, on all accounts, and in all respects, " good and 
 profitable" for them. I would not here be mistaken. Of 
 such Methodist Ministers, as 1 have known to be em- 
 ployed among the plantations of the members of our Church, 
 I have no rc.-isoii to speak, but with respect, as faithful and 
 judicious men, whose services promise only that which is 
 good. Still, I cannot but express my decided conviction, 
 that it is better for us, so far as it may be possibly practica- 
 ble, to confide this business to none, but those who will con- 
 duct it, according to what we know to be the sober, scriptural, 
 pi-actical, and at once simple and deeply impressive S3^steni 
 of our own Church's doctrine and worship. From the train- 
 ing of these people, as subjects of religious instruction, ac- 
 cording to its fornaularies, great advantage has been seen to 
 
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 come. Unwearied patience, in this humble labour of love, 
 would, I have good reason to believe, be blessed with re- 
 sults, certainly happy for its subjects, and greatly beneficial 
 to the community. 
 
 Having, brethren, as I have said, conveyed to you the 
 views of the Convention as embodied in the report of their 
 Committee, approved and adopted by them, I must bring 
 this communication to a close ; resisting the inclination which 
 the interest of the subject, in general, induces, to enlarge 
 on some points cpnnccted with it, not unfit to engage the 
 Pastoral counsel, with which, I have, specially, been asked 
 to address \^ou. The subject of our slaves, is one which 
 circumstances have made of so much delicacy ; it is in 
 couscquence of an ilbinformed, unwise, and even a reckless 
 philanthropy, affecting it, in other parts of our union, sur- • 
 rounded with so much sensibility of alarm and offence, atid 
 where, the moral interest of it is concerned, is, under the 
 supposition ot even the best dispositions entertained among 
 us to promote it, encumbered, confessedly, with so much 
 difficulty, that tlie Ministers of religion cannot approach it, 
 with too great caution and circumspection. They may, by 
 their conduct, in relation to it, do much evil, where they 
 contemplate only to do good. Yet they cannot be induced 
 by any consideration, to forego the desire, natural and pro[)- 
 er to their office, to carry among this class of their fellow 
 men, the glad tidings of the salvation, with which alike for 
 the rich and poor, the high and low, they are charged. 
 Nor can they less desire, as members of a community, to 
 whose fortunes whether for good or evil, this inheritance 
 has, in the course of Providence, been given inseparably to 
 belong, to contribute what they can, to the promotion of 
 what it may have in it, for the common good, and the quali- 
 fying and reducing of the evil, which the possession would 
 seem most naturally to involve. As one of their number, I 
 am ready to declare my full conviction, that neither the good 
 of the community, so fer as it may consist with the per- 
 
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 peluation, which I cannot see to be avoidable, of this pecu- 
 harity of our civil ami social condition, can be secured, nor 
 the evil which is obviously inseparable from it, be mitigated, 
 without care extended on Christian principles, to the moral 
 interest and character of these people. In this, indeed, I 
 am ready to confess, that I see, in relation to them, the sum 
 at once of our duty and our iuterest. There are schemes 
 resjiecting them, now, and for some years past, on foot, 
 among the pious, and on every account respectable, of our 
 fellow citizens, in which I own myself unable to see it to be 
 the duty or wisdom of the Christian to bear the part, which 
 is so loudly urged on him, as, in a j^eculiar manner his. 
 Both the duty and the wisdom of the Christian seem to me, 
 in a manner greatly paramount, to consist, in giving them in 
 the condition in which they are, the knowledge of God, ac- 
 cording to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and cheerfully com- 
 mitting the event of this course, jyrudenthj, intelligently, ob- 
 servingly and conscientiously pursued, to the disposal of an 
 allwise and benignant Providence. In other schemes re- 
 ferred to, with the exception of their operation in the case 
 of native Africans, recently captured from those abandoned 
 adventurers, who, in spite of the concurrence of Christian 
 nations for its suppression, still pursue their profligate, bar- 
 barous, detestable slave coast traffic, I can see no other than 
 a very questionable humanity, if not a policy which would 
 make huniiinity a sacrifice to its claims. Whether it be a 
 sound or a morbid sensibility, that gives rise to projects 
 which would discharge our slaves from those circumstances 
 of gradual amelioration, which characterize their condition 
 as the servants of Christian people, I cannot but prefer to all 
 such projects, a firm acquiescence in the necessity, to which, 
 as a community, we are subjected, accompanied with a 
 practical and active anxiety to know, and to the utmost, ful- 
 fil, what is with respect to it, the duty of the Christian, as 
 the Scriptures teach it. At least, until we can feel the call 
 Vo be imperative on uS: to discharge them, unfitted for the- 
 
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 privileges and advantages of freedom, into that wretched 
 frt^edonj, where the crime and want, and universal degrada- 
 tion dnd misery which make the condition of the natural 
 man, would bitterly reproach our philanthnjpy, and make 
 only compunction its reward, let us be content to make of 
 them, to the utmost that we can, disciples of that Saviour, 
 whose religion, has precepts as well for bond as free ; learn- 
 ing at his mouth, to be huml)le, contented, quiet, peaceable, 
 faithful, upright and pure, that they too, may be heirs, accor- 
 ding to the promise, of eternal Ife. The trouble and nnhappi- 
 ness of slave-proprietorship, are undoubtedly not magnified, 
 in the complaint of them, which it is, so common to hear. 
 There is but one way of comfortably modifying the pain 
 and vexation of this lot of life. Experience has amply shewn 
 it to be a comparatively easy lot to him, who, with a thought- 
 ful, prudent, pious, yet vigilant and firm humanity, has ad- 
 ministered the necessary government and control of his 
 plantations. With respect to any discomfort that may una- 
 voidably pertain to our peculiar circumstances of temporal 
 inheritance, or any questions respecting them, that may 
 arise or be suggested, to perplex and trouble us, we may 
 find, I believe, in this, a satisfactory mode of obviating 
 either. In short, let us do what else we will, we cannot 
 fulfil the claims which are upon us, in the peculiar situa- 
 tion, which has by inheritance been assigned us, unless we 
 faithfiilly endeavour to discharge, so far as it may be prac- 
 ticable, with respect to those of our felow beings, in whose 
 behalf, it has been made my duty to address you, that 
 which is our conscious Christian duty. 
 
 It may consist with the design and expectation of the 
 Convention, in requiring of me a communication of this na- 
 ture, that 1 should not omit from it, the specific recommen- 
 dation of such expedients, as might seem to myself, officially, 
 to be practicable and proper. I have none to commend but 
 such as the Committee pointed out, in the ])arts of their re- 
 port which I have given. It has long been my earnest 
 
desire that the Clergy of our several Parishes could extend 
 their pastoral care to the slaves of the members of their con- 
 gregations. It has at the same time been obvious, that un- 
 less they had otherwise very little duty attaching to their 
 situations, it would be in their power to do very httle in this 
 way. In a few instances, peculiar and uncommon vigour 
 and energ}^ of body and spirit, might make the combination 
 practicable, to a considerable extent, of both kinds of duty. 
 Generally, however, it could not be expected. In all cases 
 in which it might be done, it was suggested, that proprietors 
 should, if possible, be induced to unite in a subscription to 
 defray the expense of the additional labour to which their 
 Ministers might be subjected, in visiting, in some stated and 
 systematic manner, as many plantations as time and cir- 
 cumstances would permit. For several years past, howe- 
 ver, the wish has been entertained, and often in the course 
 of those ^ears, expressed, that Ministers of our Church, 
 might be employed, who in aid of, and in concurrence 
 with the Rectors of the Parishes, might be charged 
 with this species of duty, under such regulations, as 
 might, to such Rectors seem suitable and necessary, 
 and to proprietors, of their congregations — who should 
 combine to provide for the supi)ort of such Ministers, 
 as Chaplains of their estates. It cannot too much be re- 
 gretted that the number of our Clergy, inadequate to 
 services ordinarily requiring them, could admit of none to 
 spare for this extraordinaiy requisition. The hope is not, 
 however, relmquished, that some will be found willing and 
 quahfied to be so employed, and that where they may be, 
 proprietors will be found ready to provide the means of 
 their support and comfort in the discharge of this humble 
 and charitable, yet most important service. 
 
 Where Clergymen cannot be had, and until they can be, 
 the desire has been expressed, and is still entertained, that 
 the Minister of the Parish, might be authorized by his pa- 
 rishioners to select a Catechist. to whom he might commit 
 
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 the instruction of their slaves, under his direction and. su- 
 pervision, on his being Hcensed by the ecclesiastical 
 authority. In all cases, whether as to Clergymen erapioy- 
 ed, or Lay Catechists, it is deemed indispensably necessary 
 that the most rigid and scrupulous conformity be observed 
 to the order and discipline, which proprietors may deem 
 best for their plantations. With these, no interference 
 whatever should be allowed. Nor should the proprietor be 
 required, or expected to let the services of a Minister or 
 Catechist be continued on his plantation, longer than while 
 he should be satisfied with their character and effect. 
 
 To the Clergy, I can have but little to say, in addition to 
 what has been repeatedly expressed to them individually 
 and collectively, as my sense of their duty, touching this 
 highly interesting matter. They will recollect that for 
 many years, it has been urged that they should consider the 
 slaves of their parishioners as included in their pastoral 
 charge — and having a claim, to as great an extent as cir- 
 cumstances might make reasonable, on their attention* 
 They will indulge me in the repetition on this occasion, of 
 my solicitude on the subject. As far as possible, I would 
 entreat them to take the case of these people to heart — and 
 and labour for their spiritual happiness to the utmost that 
 their strength and opportunity will permit. They are of the 
 household of those to whom they minister, and of course 
 subject to their pastoral care — except so far as they may 
 have become, by difference of persuasion, subject to the 
 same care on the part of others. The Clergy may not, in 
 many instances, have time or strength to spare to them ; but 
 they may exert an influence in their behalf, which may be 
 of great importance. They may find those to whose atten- 
 tion they may safely and satisfactorily be committed — a,nd 
 may exercise a wholesome and encouraging superintendence 
 of the conduct of their religious instruction. They may at 
 least cause themselves to be recognised as their spiritual 
 pastors, having a care for their souls, and willing, and desir- 
 
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26 
 
 DUB to promote their good. They may in a mRimer per- 
 fectly consistent with their province, influence, v Itliout 
 offence, the minds of proprietors, in behalf of the claims of 
 humanity in this important particular — and even where ne- 
 cessity might require, by their counsel and persuasion, oc- 
 casion such modifications of sentiment in reference to it, as 
 would induce civil measures to be modified in conformity 
 with the demands of evangelical benevolence, towards these 
 people, as its objects. I need not, however, point out to my 
 brethren of the Ministry, the particulars in which they 
 might exercise in this res])ect, the office of watchful, and 
 and considerate spiritual pastors. They will see them 
 readily enough, for themselves, and while they lament in 
 how few particulars they can execute such an office as they 
 woul<l, in all that they can, they will not fail to manifest for 
 these people the concern which becomes them, as the agents 
 of his grace and compassion, who came to preach the Gos- 
 pel to the 'poor, and make all the people of the earth rejoice in his 
 salvation. 
 
 I have now to solicit your indulgent reception of what I 
 have written, and subscribe myself, 
 
 Your friend and brother in the Lord, 
 
 NATHANIEL BOWEN. 
 
 p. S. — The Catechism, which by the resolution of the 
 Convention it is made the business of the Bishoj) to " ])re- 
 pare, or cause to be prepared," is not ready for publication. 
 The earfiest opportunity of which ni}^ numerous engage- 
 ments would admit, has been taken, to execute the wish of 
 the Convention, as to the views they have thought it fit and 
 obligatory for them to adopt, in relation to the religious in- 
 struction of our slaves. The table of Scripture lessons re- 
 quired, is appended to this communication. The Catechism 
 will make a separate pubfication — and a larger impression 
 of it, than was necessary of tliis, be issued, as soon as cir- 
 cumstances will permit. 
 
SELECTIONS FROM SCRIPTURE, 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 INSTRUCTION OF THE COLOURED PERSONS, 
 
 IN CONNEXION 
 
 WITH THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH 
 
 IN THE 
 
 DIOCESE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA; 
 
 N. B. — It ifl not meant to define how much of each portion should be used for 
 each lesson ; nor in what order the lessons should succeed each other : but merely to 
 select such portions of Scripture as may be useful, either in part, or as a whole. 
 
 GENESIS 1 Chap. 
 
 GENESIS 
 
 28 Chap. 
 
 2 " 
 
 
 29 « tov. 14. 
 
 3 " 
 
 
 32 « tov.22. 
 
 4 to V. 16 (in- 
 
 
 33 " 
 
 clusive.*) 
 
 
 37 " 
 
 6 Chap. 
 
 
 39 to V. 6, and 
 
 7 " 
 
 
 from V. 20 to 
 
 8 " 
 
 
 end. 
 
 9 to V. 17th. 
 
 
 40 " 
 
 11 Chap, to V. 9. 
 
 
 41 « 
 
 12 " to V. 9. 
 
 *» 
 
 42 " 
 
 13 " 
 
 
 43 « 
 
 15 "to V. 18. 
 
 
 44 " 
 
 17 " 
 
 
 45 " 
 
 18 from V. 17 to 
 
 
 46 to V. 7, and 
 
 end. 
 
 
 from V. 28 
 
 19 Chap, from v. 
 
 
 to end. 
 
 1 to 3, and from 
 
 EXODUS 1 Chap, from V. 
 
 V. 12 to 29 
 
 
 6 to 14 and 
 
 21 Chap. tov. 20. 
 
 
 V. 22. 
 
 22 " to V. 19. 
 
 
 2 Chap. V. 1 to 
 
 24 « 
 
 
 JO, and 23d 
 
 27 " 
 
 
 to end. 
 
 The other references throughout the uble, are also meant to be inclasive. 
 
28 
 
 EXODUS 3 Chap. 
 
 I KINGS 
 
 8 Chap. 
 
 4 " tov.23 
 
 
 9 " 
 
 8 " 
 
 
 17 " 
 
 9 " 
 
 
 18 " 
 
 10 " 
 
 
 19 " 
 
 11 " 
 
 II KINGS 
 
 2 " 
 
 12 " 
 
 
 4 *' 
 
 14 " 
 
 
 5 " 
 
 16 " 
 
 
 24 " 
 
 17 " to V. 7. 
 
 
 25 " 
 
 19 « 
 
 EZRA 
 
 1 '* 
 
 20 " tov. 23 
 
 NEHEM. 
 
 2 " 
 
 32 " 
 
 
 13 V. 15 to 22. 
 
 33 " tov. 17 
 
 JOB 
 
 1 Chap. 
 
 NUMBERS ]3 Chap, to v. 3, 
 
 
 2 " 
 
 and 17 to end. 
 
 
 5 
 
 14 Chap. 
 
 
 7 " 
 
 16 " 
 
 
 9 « 
 
 21 V. 4 to V. 9. 
 
 
 14 " 
 
 DEUTER. 4 Chap. tov. 40. 
 
 
 42 " 
 
 6 « 
 
 PSALMS- 
 
 — Selections from 
 
 8 " 
 
 
 these to be made 
 
 9 " 
 
 
 at the discretion 
 
 10 V. 12 to end. 
 
 
 of the Teacher. 
 
 18 Chap. V. 9 to 
 
 PROV. 
 
 1 Chap. 
 
 V. 20. 
 
 
 2 " 
 
 30 « 
 
 
 3 " 
 
 34 « 
 
 
 4 « 
 
 JOSHUA 3 Chap. 
 
 
 6 V. 6 to 11, and 
 
 6 " 
 
 
 16 to 19. 
 
 7 " 
 
 
 11 Chap. 
 
 23 " 
 
 
 12 and many de- 
 
 24 " 
 
 
 tached pas- 
 
 JUDGES 2 Chap. 
 
 
 sagesjofv^hich 
 
 I SAMUEL 3 " 
 
 
 the selection 
 
 4 to V. 18. 
 
 
 must be left to 
 
 6 Chap. 
 
 
 individual 
 
 7 from V. 1 to 6. 
 
 
 judgment. 
 
 12 Chap. 
 
 ISALA.H 
 
 1 Chap. V. 1 to 
 
 16 to V. 13. 
 
 
 6, and 16 to 
 
 17 Chap. 
 
 
 V. 20. 
 
 IISAMU'L 16 " tov. 15. 
 
 
 11 Chap. 
 
 18 " 
 
 
 35 " 
 
 I KINGS 5 " 
 
 
 40 " 
 
 6 " 
 
 
 
'29 
 
 ISAIAH 42Chap.iromv. I ISAIAH 65 Chap. 
 
 1 to V. 12. 1 LAMENTATIONS 3 Chap. 
 
 43 Chap. V. 1 
 
 to V. 41. 
 
 to 13. 
 
 EZEKIEL 18 Chap. 
 
 44 " 
 
 33 Chap. from. v. 
 
 52 *' froniv. 
 
 1 to 20. 
 
 7 and 
 
 37 Chap. V. 1. 
 
 53 " 
 
 to 14. 
 
 54 " 
 
 DANIEL 3 Chap. 
 
 55 " 
 
 5 " 
 
 58 " 
 
 6 " 
 
 60 to V. 14. 
 
 JONAH— The whole. 
 
 61 Chap, to V.3. 
 
 MALACHI 3 Chap. 
 
 63 " 
 
 4 " 
 
 From the Gospels and Acts, it is of little use to select, for almost every verse may be 
 aiiitable at one time or another : but the parables in general, and the narratives of our 
 Saviour's sufferings, death and resurrection, (particularly as given by St. John) may 
 be deemed important— as also the foUowiug passages : 
 
 MATT. 5 Chap. 
 
 6 " 
 
 7 *' 
 
 25 from v. 31 to 
 end. 
 LUKE 13 Chap. 
 
 15 " 
 JOHN 3 " 
 
 ACTS 2 Chap. 
 3 " 
 
 5 " 
 
 8 " 
 
 9 « 
 10 " 
 
 16 V. 23 to 34. 
 
 17 Chap. V. 16 
 
 to end. 
 
 24 " 
 
 25 " 
 
 27 " 
 
 28 " 
 ROMANS 1 V. 18 to end. 
 
 2 Chap. V. 1 to 
 12, and V. 16. 
 
 6 Chap. 
 
 ROMANS 7 Chap. 
 
 8 V. 1 to 18, and 
 31st to end. 
 
 12 Chap. 
 
 13 " 
 
 I CORIN. 1 V. 18 to end. 
 11 Chap. V. 20 
 to end. 
 13 Chap. 
 15 " 
 II CORIN. 3 " 
 4 " 
 GAL AT. 5 V. 14 to end. 
 EPHES. 5 Chap. 
 
 6 V. 1 to 20. 
 PHILIPP. 2 Chap. v. 1 to 
 
 16. 
 
 3 V. 3 to end. 
 
 4 Chap. V. 4 to 
 
 13. 
 
 COLOS. 3 Chap. 
 
 I THESS. 4 V. 13 to end. 
 
 6 Chap. V. 1 to 
 
 25. 
 
30 
 
 TITUS 2 Chap. 
 
 I PETER 
 
 1 Chap. V. 13 
 
 HEB. 1 " nnd 
 
 
 to end. 
 
 2 to V. 4. 
 
 
 3 Chap. V. 1 to 
 
 4 Chap, from V. 
 
 
 18. 
 
 9 to end. 
 
 II PETER 
 
 3 Chap.v. 8 to 
 
 10 Chap, from V. 
 
 
 14 
 
 24 to end. 
 
 I JOHN 
 
 1 " 
 
 11 Chap. 
 
 
 2 V. 1 to 11. 
 
 12 " 
 
 
 3 Chap. 
 
 13 V. lto8. 
 
 
 4 V. 7 to end. 
 
 JAMES 1 Chap. 
 
 REVEL. 
 
 7 Chap. V. 9 to 
 
 2 from V. 8 to 
 
 
 end. 
 
 end. 
 
 
 20 " V. 11 to 
 
 3 Chap. 2d to 
 
 
 end. 
 
 end. 
 
 
 21 V. ItoS. 
 
 4 " 
 
 
 22 Chap. 
 
 5 V. 7 to end. 
 
 
 
 Passages relating especially to Servants. 
 
 MATT. 18 Chap. v. 23 
 
 EPHES. 
 
 6 V. 5 to 8. 
 
 to end. 
 
 COL. 
 
 3 Chap. V. 22 
 
 24 V. 45 to end. 
 
 
 to 25. 
 
 25 Chap. V. 14 
 
 I TIM. 
 
 6 Chap. vs. 1 
 
 to 30 
 
 
 and 2. 
 
 LUKE 12 V. 42 to 48. 
 
 TITUS 
 
 2 Chap. 9 and 
 
 I COR. 7 Chap. v. 20 
 
 
 ]0 
 
 to 22 
 
 I PETER 
 
 2 V. 18 to end. 
 
 RD - 5 8 * 
 

 
 
 
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