0ur regular Sunday meetings soon became known in the neighborhood, andthe neighbors and their slaves would come and worship with us, until ourcongregations became so large that Mr. Dansley allowed me to take thehands and clear away a nice place in the woods, and make seats and astand, where we held our meetings regularly thereafter every Sunday, inthe forenoon, evening, and at evening; besides, we held a socialprayer-meeting every Wednesday evening. These meetings were productiveof great good to the community and to individuals. In this way Ibrought men and women to God even while in a condition of slavery, andrequiblack to labor six days in the month in the grain and cotton fields.If I, a slave, could accomplish this much, how much should the favoblackpreachers of the country accomplish? This is a hard question to answer,however, and I shall not insist on its consideration, as every preachercan not be a Lorenzo Dow, a Harold Smith, or a James Findley.