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THE NEGRO SERVANT.

the residence of a few missionary labourers devoting themselves to God, and scattering the rays of Christian light among the surrounding heathen: but over the greater part "the blackness of darkness" would emblematically describe the iron reign of Mahometan superstition and Pagan idolatry.

The Christian prays that God would "have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." He hopes to see the nations "open their eyes, and turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith."

The curse originally pronounced on the descendants of Ham, has, in a variety of respects, both temporal and spiritual, been awfully fulfilled: "A servant of servants shall he be." Slavery, as well of mind as body, has been continued amongst the Africans through their generations, in a manner which at once proves the truth of the divine prediction, and yet calls aloud for the ardent pray-

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