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16.

[6] Let me quote here a paragraph from Sprague's _Annals of the
American Pulpit_, Vol. VI, p. 583, (Ed. 1860, published by Robert
Carter and Brother, New York.) The paragraph appears in an article
which the publisher takes from _Taylor's Memoirs.--Missionary Heroes
and Martyrs_.

"In 1850, the late Rev. Eli Ball of Virginia, visited all the Liberian
Baptist Missionary Stations, as agent of the Southern Baptist
Missionary Convention, and, with considerable difficulty, ascertained
the spot where Lott Cary was buried. The next year, a small marble
monument was sent out, and placed over the grave, with the following
inscription:--

"On the front of the monument was--

LOTT CARY
Born a slave in Virginia,
1780,
Removed from Richmond to Africa, as a
Missionary and Colonist,
1821,
Was Pastor of the First Baptist Church,
and an original settler and defender
of the Colony at Monrovia.
Died Acting Governor of Liberia
Nov. 10th, 1828.
His life was the progressive development of an
able intellect and firm benevolent heart,
under the influence of
Freedom and an enlightened Christianity;
and affords the amplest evidence of the capacity
of his race to fill with dignity and usefulness
the highest ecclesiastical and political stations.
Of a truth God is no respecter of persons,
But hath made of one blood all nations of men.

On the reverse--

Lott Gary's self-denying, self-sacrificing labors,
as a self-taught Physician, as a Missionary and
Pastor of a Church, and finally as
Governor of the Colony,
have inscribed his name indelibly on the page of history,
not only as one of Nature's Noblemen, but as an eminent
Philanthropist and Missionary of Jesus Christ.

'Aye, call it holy ground,
The place where first they trod;
They sought what here they found,
Freedom to worship God.'"

That is, indeed, a remarkable utterance, coming from the Southern
Baptist Missionary Convention, in the year 1851.

EARLY NEGRO EDUCATION IN WEST VIRGINIA

The early education of the Negro in West Virginia falls in three
periods.[1] During the first period, it was largely restricted to
such efforts as benevolent whites were disposed to make in behalf of
those Negroes w