Extract from the journal of Rev. Mr. Johnson, May 5, 1821 published under the title "An African Negro" in Southern Baptist Missionary Journal, December 1848

AN AFRICAN NEGRO The late Rev. Mr. Johnson gives the following among other instances, of the simplicity of the Christian negroes under his care at Sierra Leone. At one of their Saturday evening meetings a man said: — Massa, them words you talk last Sunday morning sweet very much to my heart; they comfort me, for true. That time me come to church, me so much trouble - my heart full up with sin. Me stand the same like sick person. О me sorry for my sin! Me sit down; and by and by, when you begin to talk them words in Matt, ix 12, you say, “sick people want doctor.” Me say, Ah! that true; suppose me sick, me can’t go for doctor.” By and by you ask, “who is sick in this congregation?” And then you tell us who them sick people be the Lord Jesus Christ talk about in the Bible; and then you begin to talk about them heart-sick people. Ah! massa, what you talk about them, same thing live in my heart, and me say, “them words God send to me this day.” By and by you talk about the Lord Jesus Christ - him the doctor for the heart-sick people. O, them words make me glad! You talk plenty about the medicine he give, and that he take no money - he gives it freely. O, massa, that make me so glad! That time me go home, me comfort very much. Thank God! the Lord Jesus Christ take his own blood for medicine, and take all my sin away. - Christian Missions. Southern Baptist Missionary Journal December 1848 p. 150