thing made him unhappy, that was
that my poor moder should not learn the truth of the gospel. He knew
that she was carried away by bad people, and he afraid that she become
bad like them; but he pray day and night that God in His mercy would
make known to her His great love, as He had made it known to him.

"Oh, if I could but hear that she had become a Christian how happy I
should be!" he used to say to me over and over again. "Paul," that was
the name I had got when I was christened, "you must pray for your moder
wid me, and I am sure that God will hear our prayers."

"At last my fader grew sick, and he made me promise, if he died, that I
would go to Sierra Leone and try to find if my moder was dere. My fader
grew worse and worse, but still him very happy, and taking my hand, he
say, `Paul, you must meet me in heaven, and you must bring your moder
there, and then we all live together for ever and ever, where there are
no more slave-dealers, and no more war, and no more cruelty,' and den
him die.

"After dat I set off to go to Sierra Leone, but slave-dealer catch me on
the way and take me on board slaver, with nearly four hundred other
black fellows, and we were all put down in ship's hold, and carried away
to the coast of Brazil. But English man-of-war catch the slaver. The
English captain find out that I was a Christian, and so he ask me if I
like to serve on board de man-of-war, and I say yes. The captain, good
Christian man himself, so I learn to speak English, and he taught me to
read Bible, and I learn still more about Jesus than I did in Abeokuta.
At last we got back to Sierra Leone, and then I remember my promise to
my father, and while I on shore trying to learn about my moder, the ship
sail away, and no more come back. I no hear about my moder, and have no
money, so I ship on board merchant vessel, and after sailing in her
along the coast for some time I go on board another, and then I again go
on board man-of-war. At last I get back to Sierra Leone, and fall very
sick, and sent to hospital, then a good missionary come to me and I tell
him what my fader had said, and he ask me if I think I going to heaven,
and then he tell me more about the right way, and pray with me. And now
I find Jesus as my own Saviour and Friend, and love Him, and wish to
serve Him, and obey Him. Then the wish came into my heart to preach the
gospel to my countrymen, but I, still poor and very ignorant, and I
thought if I co