Perhaps they are better in other lands,--I know not; but well I know they are many of them false and wicked here.

No truth is taught to the people,--no Bible is read in their ears; religion is not taught,--even morality is not taught; men follow the devices and desires of their own hearts, and there is no voice raised to say, 'You are doing wrong.' My country is sunk very low; and she cannot hope to rise, for the word of her Maker is not in her hand.

True, there are a few, a very few Bibles in the great cities; but that is all: that cannot save her hundreds of towns and villages.

Thousands of her people are slaves in body,--all, all are slaves in soul; and yet you ask me what she wants.

Ha! she wants _truth_,--she wants to be purged of falsehood.