"Tell them," said he, "on your return, that the missionaries in these islands are cast down and grieved when they think of their brethren in America.
We feel persuaded that they are holding back the car of freedom; they are holding up the gospel." Rev.Mr.Cheesbrough, of St.Christopher's, said, "Tell them that much as we desire to visit the United States, we cannot go so long as we are prohibited from speaking against slavery, or while that _abominable prejudice_ is encouraged in the churches.

_We could not administer the sacrament to a church in which the distinction 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_.