The Power of the Scriptures.
A NATIVE African preacher said: "We know that rocks are very hard. Our cutlasses and hoes can do nothing against them, so we leave them alone. But white people have something that can break up and scatter any rock in Uwet or Umon. You will admit that something must be more powerful than rocks. So we all know what country, laws, and customs are; we can not change them, so we leave them alone. But a thing has come to Calabar, even God's word, and it has broken up and scattered customs that our fathers thought would remain forever! What must you say concerning that word but that it is more powerful than the customs of our country? You know how strong your hearts are. Hearts as strong as yours have been changed in our town, have been changed by this word; and what must you, therefore, say but that this word is more powerful than a Calabar heart? Bend your heads, then, before this word."