Excerpt from Father Henson's Story of His Own Life

The numerous friends of the author of this little work will need no greater recommend ation than his name to make it welcome. Among all the singular and interesting rec ords to which the institution of American sla very has given rise, we know of none more striking, more characteristic and instructive, than that of josiah henson.

Born a slave - a slave in effect in a hea then land - and under a heathen master, he grew up without Christian light or knowledge, and like the Gentiles spoken of by St. Paul, without the law did by nature the things that are written in the law. One sermon, one offer of salvation by Christ, was sufficient for him, as for the Ethiopian eunuch, to make him at once a believer from the heart and a preacher of Jesus.

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