my reading classes this week, but much pleased with several others. It is important to choose children of animated speech and habit for monitors, even if they have some faults. It is more easy to lop off an excrescence than to supply a defect; and if either a dull, careless manner, or still more, if anything like a scornful air be seen in a monitor toward her class, it is depressing and stupifying to them.

How delightful are seasons of quiet and retirement when one is in habits of much occupation. I loved such seasons when more of them were in my power, and look back with a thankful heart to the opportunities which have been given by circumstances which appeared in themselves trials; first, in Yorkshire, by a weak state of health, and since, in and near London, when from the suspension of African concerns I was left without settled occupation. O, that there might be a school for Africans in England! if this were the case, of how little account would any sufferings or deprivations seem that may have been endured, or may still be to endure. I know, indeed, that it would not be a life of leisure and of ease that I must look to in such an establishment, but that is not what I seek, and I hope to be kept from shrinking at any difficulty in the way, so that only my spiritual welfare be not impeded by too great a pressure of outward cares.

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"I am satisfied the little meetings on First-day mornings are adapted to the state of the children, and humbly hope that the Divine blessing is experienced in them.

"22nd. I have not any particular time of arrival in England to aim at, except so as to attend any public meeting among Friends, to unfold the con

cerns of Africa. I have to consider also whether some debts of Christian duty may not be required at my hands in some of those places in which I wish to advocate the African cause. I know my memory and thought must be put in much requisition, as more will be expected, I fear, than I can communicate of interesting anecdotes of Africans. This desire for something new must be borne with, and fed, so far as in truth and justice we can feed it. Still it is painful to think that the mind may rest in being much excited, and not be led to do the self-denying work which Christian labour calls for. The gratification of the inquisitive desire may often be used in promoting the great work of general Christian advancement, although the extreme indulgence of the wish for novelty has its many and great dangers; among these, no doubt, is the disposition to make a display of little narratives, so as to colour them in a way almost too brilliant for the truth, and into this some have undoubtedly been betrayed.

“I have been thinking much about the apprentices, and I think if the Governor would, from the apprentice fees, (which I understand are considerable) make little presents to the girls and boys who have behaved well in their places for one year, and after that also at stated times, it would be a stimulus to good conduct both on the part of masters and apprentices. The expectation of these rewards would often sweeten the toils of the poor children. If there are in this colony four thousand five hundred apprentices, surely their welfare and improvement is an object of importance.

"On returning home I shall probably meet with some trials from individuals feeling cold in the cause which I have at heart; but let not this be

either depressing to my mind, or cause any wrong feelings in return, any feelings contrary to Christian meekness and pure fervent charity. Let me think on my Redeemer, and seek to follow Him. Let me gratefully acknowledge the many proofs of true and kind affection I have received from endeared friends, and return their love by fervent charity and unfeigned gratitude. May the fire of Divine love be found in our religious and social meetings, and let that charity which hopeth all things, and endureth all things, ever so cover my mind as to preclude any feeling contrary to its own nature. God has been abundantly merciful and good to me, and if trials should be permitted, of what kind soever they may be, let me seek for patience and submission to bear them well. Let me not talk of trials either past or to come, further than to acknowledge that God has all power to shield and defend in them, and to cause all to work together for good. Let me acknowledge the mercies, the abounding mercies that have followed me, and of which I have never been sufficiently sensible, nor sufficiently grateful. The want of this sensibility and gratitude for Divine mercies, and the giving way to depressing feelings from the weight of the work before me, and the hinderances to its attainment, have kept me low, and rather sad and unsocial at times, when I should rather have been grateful, courageous, and cheerful. O, that I may learn wisdom, and may now return home with a lightened mind and thankful heart, hoping in God, trusting in Him, and feeling and acknowledging His infinite mercy, his infinite power and love, with a heart devoted to Him, and seeking its strength, its consolations and happiness in Him, feeling that whatever there is in us of love

towards human beings, that love must abound in an immeasurably higher degree in Him who is the source and the fullness of all that is great and good.

"24th. The opposite accounts given by S. and his friend respecting Liberia, to those which the present or late Governor Mechlin has given of the state of that colony, are difficult to reconcile. S. gives a report of a jailor there, which conveys a horrible idea of their present views as to the administration of justice in that district; and I cannot but mourn that so much should be done in providing to send liberated slaves, unless they could also send persons to take kind care of them. There are greater sacrifices needed than the giving of money, to make that station answer the high and benevolent wishes of its kind friends in England. I cannot but consider than on the American continent there has been a great mixture of motive in the formation of that colony.

"25th. I must, for the sake of my health, endeavour to be less anxious, yet not less watchful over my children and their teachers. About the future destination of this school I must do my best, and strive to leave the result to Heavenly guidance. Many things need attention about the house, in directing work-people, &c., and I have so little strength that my inclination would lead me to take up entire rest for the day, if it were possible, but occupations press and cannot be put by, so that I must speak with the people as long as there is strength.

"I would gladly see the Language Society renewed under the same title, with an open and bold avowal of obtaining, as far as possible, in print or in manuscript, the elements of all known

languages, and of taking measures to promote the reduction of new languages. It may be some time before this will be fully entered into, but I have no doubt but that H. Townley's feeling respecting it is such as God has given for an object that is to be accomplished. We cannot but expect that ere the universal reign of truth and righteousness, there will be some facilities given by Divine Providence by which the sacred truths of Christianity shall be intelligibly declared to many who are of different nations and people in a way beyond what has yet been seen. All things are possible with God, who can work by means natural or supernatural in effecting His own designs of infinite mercy.

"27th. Perhaps the time for the promotion of the Language Society was not fully come when Dr. Morrison offered towards its library ten thousand Chinese volumes; but this unexpected aid might be an inducement to rather too hasty a formation of the institution, without having sufficient prospect of its meeting with general concurrence and support. I apprehend the recommencement of it must be on a more economical scale as to expense, and with the objects presented in a more certain and tangible form, and not have so much as before to depend for help in the acquisition of the languages to a few sojourners, whose stay in England was very uncertain.

"Would it not be right, supposing the restoration of that society to have within it facilities for the acquisition of some of the principal European languages; and let persons desiring to acquire those languages pay at a specified rate for instruction? The Missionary Societies should defray the expenses of their missionaries in attaining languages,

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