Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.