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Show 112 TilE MONTHLY OFF~RING. Father Laxabon were here, would he now say, as he has oftel'l said, and as most men say, that looking back upon life from its close, it appears short as the time of the early rains 1 Instead of this, how long appear the sixty years that I have lived 1 How long, how weary now seems th_e life when I was a slave-though much was done and 1t was the schooling of my soul for the work preparing for my hand I My Margot! my children! how quiety did we then live, as if no ~hange were ever to come, and we were to sit before our door at Breda every evening :ill death should remove us one by one! While I was com• posing my soul to patience by thought and by reading, how little did I dream that I was so becoming prepared to free my race-to reign, and then to die of cold and hunger, such as the meane;t slave never knows! Then the next eight years of toil-they seem longer than all that went before. Doubtless they were lengthened to me, to make my weak powers equal to the greatness of my task; for ev• ery day of conducting war and making laws appeared to me stretched out into a year. These late seasons of reverse have passed over more rapidly, for their suffering has been less. While all, even to Henri, have pitied me during these latter years, t}JCY l<new not that I was r~covering the peace which I shall now no more lose. It JS true that I erred, according to the co.'l1mon estimate of affairs, in not making myself a king, and separating my country from France, as Frauce herself is compelling her to separate at last. It is true I might now have been reigning there in· stead of dying here; and, what is worthy o~ medit~· tion, my people might now have been lnymg astde thetr arms, and beginning a long career of peace. It mtght pos· siby have been so-but at what cost I Their career of freedom (if freedom it could then have been called) would have begurr in treason and in murder, and the stain would have polluted my race forever. Now they will have free• dom still; they cannot but have it, though it is delayed. TO BE CONTINUED IN NEXT NU~IBER. TilE MONTHLY OFFERING. FEBRUARY 1841. Sectarianism. U I attended, last summer, what is technically called "A mon O_onventwn," a meeting of all religious sects, being thereby tnd1cated, for the purpose of lindino- a c g d h. h h . " ' ommon r?un on w IC t ey m1ght all unite. In seel<in" to find tht~ ground, a great number g:'ve their definition" of Sec· t~rJSm. For my own part, f dtd not receive any that was 'lt~~_e_n as the true one. ~Iy definition of Sectarism is ~ to, the sentzmmt that tnduces a man to post one the izZ/ f.!, .l·e rests of acknowle,d ged trut,h to the support oifpa. ny rezous part_y! o~ tr<e promotion of any Teligious creed hen Mr. K~rk, 1~ the New School General Assernbl · moved the mdefin1te postponement of the Slaver ue~: IJOn, he preferred what he deemed the interest of t?? ty to those of truth and justice. All who voted wit~ tarwho had ever acknowledo-ed the J·ustice of A 1· '-'1 liD, · · I d'd 0 n ,.,_, avery prmctp cs, 1 the same. When in the Methodi ·t E · pal Church, the testimony of colored ao-ainst w'h 1·t ptscowas d. e c Ja re d m· a d mi·S SJ· ve. every professoed Abolitioneio t mwehn; contnbuted to produce that result knowinc:-ly and d l'b ateiJ trampled on Humanity, that thereby the imae":n:d goo of t_he Methodtst Church might be promoted. I~ was t_h,s sentiment that created, and as far as it has any active l~fe, that now s_upports New Organization, and it is this sen· tunent, latent m the bosom of many Abolitionists, and a]. ~d~- unlmown to themselves, that at present greatly im· ls tk" the p~ogress. of t~e Anti-Slavery cause. Indeed, it e one thmg whJch Will prevent the peacable abolition |