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THE WEEKLY CONTRIBUTION PLAN.
Money is needed-

To sustain able and efficient lecturers,-To establish libraries in every town and parish,-To print and circulate petitions, newspapers and pamphlets, that this guilty nation may be aroused from her stupor of death, convinced of the sin of American slavery, and the benefits resulting from immediate emancipation, so that by the combined influence of duty and interest, she may be constrained to do justice, and "let the oppressed go free."
  This can be done by THE WEEKLY CONTRIBUTION PLAN, should every friend of liberty contribute weekly "as God hath prospered him."

DIRECTIONS.
1.  Let this box remain stationary upon the chimney piece or table in the most public room in your dwelling, as it will not only give strangers an opportunity to aid in swelling the bondman's treasury, but it will also remind the contributors of their weekly pledge.
2. The contributors should be punctual, to drop into the box, every Sabbath morning, the amount of their "weekly contribution,"-there to remain until the collectors call for it, which will be on the last Monday of every month.  This will habituate them to active and systematic benevolence.
  There should be a treasurer in each town or parish, and one or two collectors to each school district.
  The collectors should enter the name of every contributor, with the amount pledged, upon a card which will be furnished gratuitously, and on the last Monday of every month make the collections and pay the amount over to the treasurer. The treasurer should enter the name of every collector in a book furnished gratuitously, with the number of contributors and the amount contributed by each. receive their collections, and forward the same to
  WILLIAM APLIN, Esq., 14th Westminster Street, Providence R.I.


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THE WEEKLY CONTRIBUTION.
A SABBATH MORNING HYMN.
By Maria W. Chapman.
1Cor. xvi. 2.

The memory of a gracious deed
Of justice and of love,
How many a swelling heart shall heed,
Of differing nation, name and creed!
How many a soul approve!

As fell upon Corinthian ears
The words of holy Paul,
In other tongues, in other spheres-
O'er wastes of waters and years-
Upon our souls they fall.

As o'er Corinthian fanes of yore,
The Sabbath sun shines fair:
This morn will we lay by in store,
As God hath prospered us before,
Thank-offerings for his care.

Come, Sire!-come, Mother!-bring your gift
To aid the suffering slave!
Let wife and husband's generous thrift
Untie his bleeding form to lift,
And from oppression save.

Come, little children, kneeling by!
Devote what God hath given,
And raise your little hands on high,
Till freedom hath the victory,
And earth becomes like heaven.

In pure religion's conquering name,
Speed on, thou living fire
Of Freedom! till thy beacon flame
From all our hill-tops green, shall shame
The oppressor's low desire.

Nor time nor space absorb the rays;-
The radiance onward streams.
The kindly deed of present days,
Though centuries interpose their haze,
O'er all the future gleams.