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Show 126 JAMAICA· and hiding her head in the sand. A ~egro lad was pass·m g b y a t the time , and after a fe.w . mom,e nts' melancholy musin~, was overheard saymg, "Every sorncthin" know him own trouble!" Third ~nonth (March) lOth-Having arranged a .·J Ourney to the northern coast, we. left Kingston in two open carriages, being five Prtend8 in company, much united in heart and judgment. J. M. Phi]. lippo and his wife kindly undertook to be our guides, during our first day's journey. This devoted missionary appeared to us to have a far more extensive influence over the laboring population, than any other individual in Spanishtown; and we can, from our own observation, venture to assert, that he exerts it in a beneficial manner-greatly to the advantage of the planter, as well as the laborer. Through many difficulties, he has worked his way to a condition of comparative ease, and of great usefulness. He has eight missionary stations and schools under his care, and, like his brethren in other parts of the island, is greatly beloved and respected by the people. By the last accounts, the Baptists of Jamaica have twenty· six thousand members in church communion, and the Methodists, twenty-two thousand; be~ides the multitude, not in membership, who attend their respective places of worship. Schools are connected, as a matter of course, with most of their numerous congregations. We saw five hundred black children, at once, assem· bled in J. M. Phillippo's chapel. Who can calculate the moral advantages derived to the negro population from these extensive efforts in the cause of religionefforts which have been almost doubled in efficacy JAMAICA. 127 since the abolition of slavery · That these· al1 v antages a1·e at once great and solid, and appeared to us to be counteracted by no unf>1ir bias, we are bound to bear our u.n eq. u.i vocal te. sti. mony · We e·' m e-asi ly suppose t~at md1v1~ual ~1Ss1onarics, during that long con-tmuance of confl1ct and difficulty to which thev have been exposed, have not always confined thc~selves within the bounds of prudence and moderation. We arc ourselves aware of some such instances. But these circumstances are as nothing, when compared to the general influence of these pions men, in promoting both the temporal and spiritual welfare of all classes of the community. The Baptist missionaries in Jamaica, for many years past, have been the unflinchin . . fi. l f g, untmng r1enc so the negro. No threats have daunt-ed them, no insults or persecutions have driven them from the field. They are now rl'aping their reward, ~n the . devoted attachment of the people, and the tncrcasmgly prevalent acknowledgment of their integrity and usefulness. ~e left Spanishtown under a hot sun, the dust Aymg; and, after travelling eighteen miles to the ~orthward, we arrived at J ericho, a Baptist settlement ~~ the highlands, in the midst of clouds, mist, and VIOlent r·a m· .. 'I'hI' S sort o f weather is common among the mountams of Jamaica, while the level plains on the coast are almost burning with heat. Our course ~ through the fertile and well-wooded parish of St. lomas in the Vale, partly along the banks of the Bog n.v e.r , wI H. e I1 present a variety of picturesque scenery. The perpendicular rocks of white limestgne close beside the stream, are in one spot very lofty |