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key to those they think the most powerful. It grieved me to listen to such sycopancy. Not long since an effort was made to introduce colored children into the Sunday School, and some talk of appropriating a portion of the gallery to the use of colored adults; but this was opposed by some on the ground that "it would drive the white children out of the school, and people out of the congregation," and the matter was dropped. Subsequently, the subject was brought up before the Missionary Society of the church, and after remarks made at some length, decided by favoring the establishment of a Mission for colored people in the ward, the Rev W Reid, pastor of the church, and the preacher of this day, offered a resolution for the appointment of a Committee to ascertain where rooms could be obtained and the amount of rent required. A sister earnest in the work succeeded, after much difficulty, in finding suitable rooms, unclear them and opened the Mission on the 24th. of November; upon my stating to her that from the interest manifested by the Society on the evening when the Committee was appointed I had no doubt they would pay half the rent - the other half having been subscribed by a friend of hers. The same persons who objected to the first movement - with one or two additional - also raised