He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.
Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.