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Mr. Perkin's Letter

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
July
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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i he iollowmg sentences from this faithful and erainent missionary, ought to penétrate deeply the heart of every supperter of mission3 in thiá land. ♦'In these dark realms of Mahommedan despotism, I have seen nolhing in the shape of oppression to equal, and scarcelyto bear a comparison with the riors and abomination of that under which mili ons of immortal beings aro at this moment groaning, in our own Christian, Protestant and Republican America. "Notwithstanding all the flagrant blemishes on anti-slavcry orgaafeations, stili greater pain and astonishmunt have been excited, in my mind, by the appailing apathy, on tho terrible evil of slavery, that obviously pervadesthe great masa of the ministers, and Christians, and people ol America, and prevenís them from doin" any thing, and seems to nerve them with in almost desperate determination not to do any thing for its removal. "I am by no means forgetful of the difïculties in the way of removing this fearul evil. Still, as Í view the subject cahn y from this distant posilion, I feel a deep vho fear God, or regard man, in America, o 'do something,' and it is cqually my boief, that a feelíng hëart, for the untold misries of the injured At'rican, pervading ven the Christian part of the community, vould not belong infinding out what that something' ís, which ought to be done and might be done, for the entire abolition of