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Show 44 THE MONTHLY OFFERING. Messrs. Garrison and Rogers will inform us what are the views of the English people with respect to American Slavery, and of their efforts to bring it to an end. --- Worcester Anti-Slavery Fair. The women of Worcester are to hold a Fair dnring the sittings of the Convention in that place to aid in swelling the bondman's treasury. They are but few in number, and need and expect aid from the friends in different parts of the State. Will not the men and women of this Commonwealth send in their offerings forthwith to Mrs. JOHN MILTON EARL, Worcester, Mass. Let the women in different towns, who intend to furnish tables, inform Mrs. Earl to that effect as soon as possible. And let those who attend the Convention go prepared to purchase freely such articles as may be useful. --- Pray for the Slave. Abolitionists, do you pray for the slave 1 I don't ask whether you labor for him, or give for him, or speak or write for him, or vote or petition for him. But do you pray for the slave 1 If this part of the work is not done faitltfully, rely upon it, nothing else will be well done. And if this be done as it shuuld be, no other duty to the slave will be neglected I don't ask whether you mention him in your petitions at the monthly concert, or in the conference room, or at the family altar, or in the closet, or at set times and places, or in set postures, or set phrases, or in connected expressions or ejaculations-but do you PRAY for the slave? Do you put your soul in his soul's stead, and wrestle with God for his deliverance? Do you pray as much, and plead as fervently, and wrestle as agonizingly, as you MISCELLANEOUS, 45 would if you firmly believed that it is God that must redeem him, if he is ever redeemed, and that HE SURELY WILL oo rr? Prayer is indispensable. It will strengthen our hearts and our hands while we toil. It will soften and sweeten o~r spirits, a?d prepare us to speak the truth in love. It wtll fill us wtth that holy courage so needful amid the popular vwlence nnd haughty menaces that beset us. It will keep our motives pure, and our eye single. It will buoy ~s above the poi!UJwns of worldly expediency, and poise us Immoveably_ tn the pure upper air of principle. It will draw down mtoour councils wisdom from above, and arm our measures w1th the energy of fa1th. Though prayer is not a substitute for other in•trumen• tali ties, yet it is above all, as God is above man and operates with and through all. Therefore, as we ,~auld have God co-operate with us in the deliverance of the enslllved, let US EXALT PRAYER.- A. S. Almanac for 1841. Pray for the Slaveholder. · 0! forget him not ye who plead for his slaves. He needs your prayers. God is arrayed against him. " If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready." 0 pray for him ere the bent bow twangs above him, and the "arrows of the Almigh1y" drink up his spirit. He needs your prayers. Never was mortal more destitute cf prayer. Remember that no effectual prayer can go up for the slaveholder except from those who pray for the deliverance of the slave. As ye love his soul, as ye hate his sins, as ye deprecate his doom, pray for the guilty slaveholder.-Jb. Who shallt>rny for tbe Slave 1 We have agents to srcak for the slave, but who shall pray for him? We have editors and others to write for |