Excerpt from The African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 8: May, 1832 I address these interrogatories, chiefly to you who have as sumed the direction of the newly planted church of God, in Li beria. If the corruptions of our holy religion are introduced, or tolerated here, you are answerable. If you err through igno rance, why have you undertaken to instruct others, while gro ping thus in darkness yourselves? If you substitute for doctrines the traditions of a sect, through party zeal, and prejudice, you are equally culpable. NO man has the shadow of an excuse for entertaining with bigot pride, the dogmas of a religious part) in this country, where no such parties exist, till he wickedly cre ates them. In so doing, you sin without a temptation, and re main a bigot, from the mere love of bigotry. And will you sully the brightness and purity ofthe gospel ofjesus Christ, and mar the future hopes of Christianity, throughout western Africa, rather than give up the unfounded opinions, which system-makers, and the partisans of some misguided sect, have invented to answer their own ends, in another hemisphere? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.