it for me to say, that the name of this very man (Richard Allen,) though now in obscurity and degradation, will notwithstanding stand on the pages of history among the greatest divines who have lived since the apostolic age, and among the African’s, Bishop Allen’s will be entirely pre-eminent.  My brethren, search after the character and exploits of this godly man among his ignorant and miserable brethren, to bring them to a knowledge of the truth as it is in our Master.  Consider upon the tyrants and false christians against whom he had to contend in order to get access to his brethren.  See him and his ministers in the states of New York, New Jersey, Penn.  Delaware and Maryland, carrying the gladsome tidings of free and full salvation to the colored people.  Tyrants and false christians however, would not allow him to penetrate far into the South for fear that he would awaken some of his ignorant brethren, whom they held in wretchedness and miseries—­for fear, I say it, that he would awaken and bring them to a knowledge of their Maker.  O my Master! my Master!  I cannot but think upon Christian Americans!!  What kind of people can they be?  Will not those who were burnt up in Sodom and Gomorrah rise up in judgment against Christian Americans with the Bible in their hands, and condemn them?  Will not the Scribes and Pharisees of Jerusalem, who had nothing but the laws of Moses and the Prophets to go by, rise up in judgment against Christian Americans, and condemn them[22] who in addition to these have a revelation from Jesus Christ the son of the living God?  In fine, will not the Antediluvians, together with the whole heathen world of antiquity, rise up in judgment against Christian Americans and condemn them?  The Christians of Europe and America go to Africa, bring us away, and throw us into the seas, and in other ways murder us, as they would wild beasts.  The Antediluvians and heathens never dreamed of such barbarities.  Now the Christians believe because they have a name to live, while they are dead, that God will overlook such things.  But if he does not deceive them, it will be because he has overlooked it sure enough.  But to return to this godly man, Bishop Allen.  I do hereby openly affirm it to the world, that he has done more in a spiritual sense for his ignorant and wretched brethren than any other man of colour has, since the world began.  And as for the greater part of the whites, it has hitherto been their greatest object and glory to keep us ignorant of our Maker, so as to make us believe that we were made to be slaves to them and their children to dig up gold and silver for them.  It is notorious that not a few professing christians among the whites who profess to love our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, have assailed this man and laid all the obstacles in his way they possibly could, consistent with their profession—­and what for?  Why, their course of proceeding and his, clashed exactly together—­they trying their best to keep us ignorant that we might