They are very devoted and faithful, but are ill-qualified for their duties, having obtained all the learning they possess in the Sabbath school.
They are all pious, and exert a harpy influence on the morals of their pupils.
The number of scholars has very greatly increased since emancipation, and their morals have essentially improved.

Instances of falsehood and theft, which at first were fearfully frequent and bold, have much lessened.

They begin to have a regard for _character_.

Their sense of right and wrong is enlightened, and their power of resisting temptation, and adhering to right, manifestly increased.
On the whole, we know not where we have looked on a more delightful scene.

To stand in front of the pulpit and look around on a multitude of negro children, gathered from the sordid huts into which slavery had carried ignorance and misery--to see them coming up, with their teachers of the same proscribed hue, to hear them read the Bible, answer with readiness the questions of their superintendent, and lift up together their songs of infant praise, and then to remember that two years ago these four hundred children were _slaves_, and still more to remember that in our own country, boasting its republicanism and Christian institutions, there are thousands of just such children under the yoke and scourge, in utter heathenism, the victims of tyrannic _law_ or of more tyrannic public opinion--caused the heart to swell with emotions unutterable.