ABRIDGED JOURNAL, CONTAINING A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, TRIALS AND TRAVELS OF GEO. S. BROWN, SIX YEARS A MISSIONARY IN LIBERIA, WEST AFRICA: A Miracle of God's Grace. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation, TROY, N. Y.: PRESS OF PRESCOTT & WILSON, CCXXV RIVER-STREET. 1849. EN Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1849, by GEORGE S. Brown, In the Clerk's Office of the Northern District of New-York. PREFACE. FOR Some five or six years past, many of my friends in a wide and long section of country, have urged me from time to time to present them a printed copy of my Journal. I knew that those applicants had the fullest claim on me for such a requirement; for to them, as instruments in the hand of God, I owe all that 1 am. But for the following reasons I have put them off until now, but it may be unreasonable to withhold any longer. First: In consequence of my great deficiency in education, I knew I could not compose anything which would be interesting or edifying to my friends in this day of high learning. Secondly: I am a slow and poor penman, and I feared that the Printer could not read my writing. Thirdly: About six years ago, some serious difficulties took place in the Church to which I belonged, and I have been waiting for the issue of those difficulties, which are but recently terminated. Fourthly: Previously to the present, I have not had time nor means, and even now, I have only the means of copying and publishing a hasty Abridgement. But here it may be asked by some, why I now attempt to publish, under such embarrassed circumstances? to such, I answer: First: To give God a token of my ardent gratitude, joyful remembrance, and cheerful acknowledgment of His great Mercy, Love, Power and Faithfulness, in all His kind administrations towards me. Secondly: In consequence of those difficulties above mentioned, my life is cut off in its midst, and unless I publish, I can never CHI BK 19NOV30 |