Important Discovery

Rf-v. K. Smith nf Ptt.t!.burffhf at a htto convenlimr stníod lliai he had lived 3-2 jmin in n. Slave Staïe-, nnd lie lind always li'ard slaverv spi-ken of at the Soiitd as ft .=in nnd i curse, hy all soris nf pcople nntil 1834, whrn ii ceitain D. D. disco eied SJavr-ry wns n BiMe instituten. Thfl news sprend likti w ld-, fire thinugh tiic Soui!i ninl tlic North also. - Anolher n porlant discovery of his was thus relaled. 'This Rev. Dr. mnde discovery wltich did liim Iitíle mero credit than this: - Thai it was a sin fiir a Sl-ive to pray t tlie Almifrhfv on tliP Sabbnth diy. if tlie mnsicr was Bdilin?8tenng nee!fnl cliastispincnt. - Tliis disc.ivery was made ín tliin wise. I Ie was n ItvehoJder and n f overo one, too; prtd nften vvüli lus cwn liand he oppiied the cmvhidctothn nnked baoïs ot hts sJnve. On ne ocension, a womar. tli'it terved in Ite honfie commi led, on Snb"tH moriiing, an offense ofte) ctfal mapnitude lo gn unpunisli - ed nn'il Mnndny mnrninnr. ïn lownsand citiei-in the Sn'ith, slaves are ft;hijipo? lor the mnpi part in cellar?, t prevent llieir cries from be. iiijr lieard o fat as tliev wuild be m ollinr situations. This is not the rase on the planta' tioiiP. The dweilen in toivn src not % ïlïinr to Iet tlie neighborhood in uliich they !n know Jiow nfter. íhey wliip fhe slaves. Te Dr. livcd in a town. and on this occasion took hU woman into tlie cellar, and as is üpu al ín puch cnr?. stripped her from her waist op, and nppÜed tlie hsk The wonrnn vrirhedand wnr.n] under pnch s-rhf. n cri"d, "Oh Lsrrii Oh Lord!! " LORD!!!' The Dr. stoppod, nnd his hand feil lo lus side a thmijrli htnick wuh palsy, p-'ized on tlie womnn Wiili oittonigïiment, md ih"s nddrrssrd he.. (theronin'ir'''1'1 must pardon nifi fdr epeitnjr hi8r'.rd?) "hnsh. yon b - li, will yon iakethfi immoo"" ihe Lrd in v:iin on liie Stil) lvuhday?' And when ho Imd topporl tJi' wornnnfrom the pross profnnity of crying to God in her distresses on the Sfabbath day, finislied vvhinpinfif her, nnd went nn.d esnayed tprac!i that Go pel lo his congres' i n whirh proclftiniK lierty to the raptive, nnd the open ing of tlie prisnn doors t f hem who are bonnd This was the man who ma' e the importan! disenvery ihat slavery was not sinful; and sure ly he was just the man for such a work. - B-i he is now where the servani is free from his maeter, - he hos gone to bia rewerd."