opportunity of eonversing with mo almost from morning to evening. I desired him to eontinue in the faith of my instructions, and persevere in humble and holy walking; and he should certainly possess tho erown of life.
One day, when his master called to see him, he told him he meant to leave me as a legacy to him, and begged he would treat me with civility and affection. He descanted on my qualifications, such as tho variety of useful information whieh I was able to communicate, of my unchangeable veracity, and strict fidelity. He assured his master, also, that I would make men wise unto everlasting salvation; that I had eonvinced him of sin, righteousness, and judgment to eome, all which were necessary in this life to be known and believed; and that I had introduced him to the acquaintance of his God, and of his Saviour, and of all the angelic hosts, who had ministered unto him ever since. He then thanked his master for the kindness he had shewn him for many years, and prayed fervently that the God of Abraham might bless, protect, and reward him, and that both of them might meet at the right hand of Jesus, their Judge. Then his master took an affectionate farewell. On his arrival at home, he rclated the interview he had had with old Teito, which exeited the rest of the family to visit him frequently, and they always brought with them some eordial to revive the heart of old Teito.
In a few weeks, he breathed his spirit into the hands of his heavenly Father, just after he had recommended the Saviour to the notice of one of the young ladies, who ran home in a flood of tears, to tell hor father that Teito was now no more. ‘Blessed are the dead,’ said I to those who were present, ‘who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.’
After the death of Teito, I lay unobserved in his hut for a time; till a young black slave carried me to a distant plantation, and exhibited me to his eompanions as a great euriosity. Many of the slaves, who had been but lately imported from the coast of Guinea, could not eonjeeture what use I was for. However, Susanna, a female slave, who had been taught to read, said she eould make me speak; accordingly, I was handed to her, when I at the first opening said, ‘Unto you, O men, do I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.’ In a little after, I repeated the seeond ehapter of the Ephesians. None of them could comprehend what I meant by boing ‘dead in sins,’ or by ‘the spirit that Worketh in the children of disobedience;’ nor what I meant by ‘children of wrath,’ or by ‘God who is rich in merey;’ or by being ‘saved by grace.’ Of these things, they had never heard. Theso poor
