s to her soul. But the power of articulation failed, and
this circumstance, joined with her deafness, precluded the further
interchange of sentiment with the departing saint. She continued to
lodge on the banks of the Jordan a day or two longer, till about noon
on Lord's day, June 30, 1833; when she passed through the river with
a gentle and quiet motion, and was lost to the sight of surrounding
attendants, amidst the distant groves of Eden, on the opposite shore.

"No pain she suffered, nor expired with noise;
Her soul was whispered out with God's still voice:
So softly death succeeded life in her,
She did but dream of heaven, and she was there."

_Camberwell._ E. STEANE

SLAVERY IN AMERICA.

A LETTER FROM THE BAPTIST BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS IN AMERICA, IN
ANSWER TO ONE FROM THE BOARD OF BAPTIST MINISTERS IN AND NEAR LONDON,
DATED DECEMBER 31, 1833.

(_See our last Number, p. 534._)

_Baptist Missionary Rooms,_
_Boston, Sept. 1, 1834._

DEAR BRETHREN,

Your communication, dated London, December 31, 1833, was received some
time since, by one of the officers of the Baptist General Convention;
but as the Convention, to which it was chiefly addressed, will not
convene till April, 1835, the communication was, after some delay,
presented to the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, as the executive
organ of the Convention. The board referred it to a Committee, and we
now communicate to you a copy of their Report, and of the Resolutions
adopted by the board.[A] We commend them to your candour, with a
confident belief that you will do justice to the views and feelings of
the board, encompassed as they are by difficulties which cannot be fully
understood by persons in other countries.

[A] The Committee, to whom was referred a communication from
"the Members of the Board of Baptist Ministers in and near London,"
directed to "The Rev. Spencer H. Cone, President; the Board of Managers;
and the Delegates of the Baptist Triennial Convention, United States,
North America;" and addressed to "The Pastors and Ministers of the
Baptist denomination throughout the United States of America;" the
principal object of which communication is, to express the views of the
writers "respecting the character of negro slavery, and as to the course
enjoined by religious principle on the household of faith;" prese