d to justify the
friends and advocates of your color in the eyes of the world.

As the result of our united reflections, we have concluded to call
your attention to the following articles of advice. We trust they
are dictated by the purest regard for your welfare, for we view you
as Friends and Brethren.

_In the first place_, We earnestly recommend to you, a regular
attention to the important duty of public worship; by which means
you will evince gratitude to your Creator, and, at the same time,
promote knowledge, union, friendship, and proper conduct among
yourselves.

_Secondly_, We advise such of you, as have not been taught reading,
writing, and the first principles of arithmetic, to acquire them
as early as possible. Carefully attend to the instruction of your
children in the same simple and useful branches of education. Cause
them, likewise, early and frequently to read the holy Scriptures;
these contain, amongst other great discoveries, the precious record
of the original equality of mankind, and of the obligations of
universal justice and benevolence, which are derived from the
relation of the human race to each other in a common Father.

_Thirdly_, Teach your children useful trades, or to labor with their
hands in cultivating the earth. These employments are favorable to
health and virtue. In the choice of masters, who are to instruct
them in the above branches of business, prefer those who will work
with them; by this means they will acquire habits of industry, and
be better preserved from vice than if they worked alone, or under
the eye of persons less interested in their welfare. In forming
contracts, for yourselves or children, with masters, it may be
useful to consult such persons as are capable of giving you the best
advice, and who are known to be your friends, in order to prevent
advantages being taken of your ignorance of the laws and customs of
our country.

_Fourthly_, Be diligent in your respective callings, and faithful in
all the relations you bear in society, whether as husbands, wives,
fathers, children or hired servants. Be just in all your dealings.
Be simple in your dress and furniture, and frugal in your family
expenses. Thus you will act like Christians as well as freemen, and,
by these means, you will provide for the distresses and wants