of my good works.” About two years before the late war, “the Rev. Mr. Matthew Moore,[2] one Sabbath afternoon, as I stood with curiosity to hear him, he unfolded all my dark views, opened my best behaviour and good works to me which I thought I was to be saved by, and I was convinced that I was not in the way to heaven, but in the way to hell.  This state I laboured under for the space of five or six months.  The more I heard or read, the more I” saw that I “was condemned as a sinner before God; till at length I was brought to perceive that my life hung by a slender thread, and if it was the will of God to cut me off at that time, I was sure I should be found in hell, as sure as God was in Heaven.  I saw my condemnation in my own heart, and I found no way wherein I could escape the damnation of hell, only through the merits of my dying Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; which caused me to make intercession with Christ, for the salvation of my poor immortal soul; and I full well recollect, I requested of my Lord and Master to give me a work, I did not care how mean it was, only to try and see how good I would do it.”  When he became acquainted with the method of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, he soon found relief, particularly at a time when he was earnestly engaged in prayer; yea, he says, “I felt such love and joy as my tongue was not able to express.  After this I declared before the congregation of believers the work which God had done for my soul, and the same minister, the Rev. Matthew Moore, baptized me, and I continued in this church about four years, till the vacuation” of Savannah by the British.  When Mr. Liele was called by grace himself, he was desirous of promoting the felicity of others.  One who was an eyewitness of it, says, That he began to discover his love to other negroes, on the same plantation with himself, by reading hymns among them, encouraging them to sing, and sometimes by explaining the most striking parts of them.  His own account is this, “Desiring to prove the sense I had of my obligations to God, I endeavoured to instruct” the people of “my own color in the word of God:  the white brethren seeing my endeavours, and that the word of the Lord seemed to be blessed, gave me a call at a quarterly meeting to preach before the congregation.”  Afterwards Mr. Moore took the sense of the church concerning brother Liele’s abilities, when it appeared to be their unanimous opinion, “that he was possessed of ministerial gifts,” and according to the custom which obtains in some of the American churches, he was licensed as a probationer.  He now exercised at different plantations, especially on those Lord’s Day evenings when there was no service performed in the church to which he belonged; and preached “about three years at Brunton land, and at Yamacraw,” which last place is about half a mile from Savannah.  Mr. Henry Sharp, his master, being a deacon of the church which called George Liele to the work of the ministry, some years before his