The Rev.M.Banks, of St.Bartholomews, remarked, that one of the grossest of all absurdities was that of _preparing men for freedom_.

Some, said he, pretend that immediate emancipation is unsafe, but it was evident to him that if men _are peaceable while they are slaves_, they might be trusted in any other condition, for they could not possibly be placed in one more aggravating.

If _slavery_ is a safe system, _freedom_ surely will be.

There can be no better evidence that a people are prepared for liberty, _than their patient endurance of slavery_.

He expressed the greatest regret at the conduct of the American churches, particularly that of the Methodist church.