of colors was maintained.” “Tell our brethren of the Wesleyan connection,” said Mr. B. again, “that slavery must be abolished by Christians, and the church ought to take her stand at once against it.”  We told him that a large number of Methodists and other Christians had engaged already in the work, and that the number was daily increasing.  “That’s right,” he exclaimed, “agitate, agitate, AGITATE! You must succeed:  the Lord is with you.”  He dwelt particularly on the obligations resting upon Christians in the free states.  He said, “Men must be at a distance from slavery to judge of its real character.  Persons living in the midst of it, gradually become familiarized with its horrors and woes, so that they can view calmly, exhibitions from which they would once have shrunk in dismay.”

We had some conversation with Rev. Mr. Walton, of Montserrat.  After making a number of statements in reference to the apprenticeship there, Mr. W. stated that there had been repeated instances of planters emancipating all their apprentices.  He thought there had been a case of this kind every month for a year past.  The planters were becoming tired of the apprenticeship, and from mere considerations of interest and comfort, were adopting free labor.

A new impulse had been given to education in Montserrat, and schools were springing up in all parts of the island.  Mr. W. thought there was no island in which education was so extensive.  Religious influences were spreading among the people of all classes.  Marriages were occurring every week.

We had an interview with the Rev. Mr. H., an aged colored minister.  He has a high standing among his brethren, for talents, piety, and usefulness.  There are few ministers in the West Indies who have accomplished more for the cause of Christ than has Mr. H.[A]

[Footnote A:  It is a fact well known in Antigua and Barbadoes, that this colored missionary has been instrumental in the conversion of several clergymen of the Episcopal Church in those islands, who are now currently devoted men.]

He said he had at different periods been stationed in Antigua, Anguilla, Tortola, and some other islands.  He said that the negroes in the other islands in which he had preached, were as intelligent as those in Antigua, and in every respect as well prepared for freedom.  He was in Anguilla when emancipation took place.  The negroes there were kept at work on the very day that freedom came! They worked as orderly as on any other day.  The Sabbath following, he preached to them on their new state, explaining the apprenticeship to them.  He said the whole congregation were in a state of high excitement, weeping and shouting.  One man sprang to his feet, and exclaimed, ’Me never forget God and King William.’  This same man was so full that he went out of the chapel, and burst into loud weeping.