Excerpt from Plantation Sermons, or Plain and Familiar Discourses for the Instruction of the Unlearned A very solemn responsibility rests upon Chris tians residing in the Southern and South-western States of the Union, in relation to the large num ber of coloured persons, mostly slaves, who are amongst us, as a portion of our population and yet forming a distinct class of our society. Their con dition is such, that if they shall receive instruction in the truths of the gospel, and have access to its privileges, it must be through our agency. Failing to carry the gospel to them is, in effect, to exclude them from it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.