It will accommodate two thousand persons.

"Besides free sittings, there will be nearly two hundred pews, every one of which is now in demand." However much disposed the churches of different denominations might have been during slavery to maintain a strict discipline, they found it exceedingly difficult to do so.

It seems impossible to elevate a body of slaves, _remaining such,_ to honesty and purity.

The reekings of slavery will almost inevitably taint the institutions of religion, and degrade the standard of piety.

Accordingly the ministers of every denomination in Antigua, feel that in the abolition of slavery their greatest enemy has been vanquished, and they now evince a determination to assume higher ground than they ever aspired to during the reign of slavery.