ABSTRACT

FOR several months in the beginning of this year, after ourteacher's departure, the school again devolved on me, and I was at home in it; but its labours being shared by my wife in the forenoon, and Miss Edgerley in the afternoon, were not too severe an addition to other duties. A Ih~W school-house, that we had SOlne time previously completed the erection of, proved a great relief, being large and airy, though it would hardly see a larger or more prosperous school than the old one had done. That was the sixth school-house I had erected, as part of my missionary labours, beside three churches, and three dwellinghouses, in Jamaica and Calabar; and, I must say that, even though necessary, such labours are not what missionaries expect or are prepared for, and prove both uncongenial and secularizing.