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school now in Van Buren, and with the incentive of a good school-house I think they would contribute liberaly towards supporting a teacher another year and it would undoubtedly be a means of Affecting some good in other respects, showing to the rebels that a colored school was to be a permanent thing here and that opposition would not prevent it, as they have thus far tried to do, but by the power of God strengthening me and a heart for the work, we have triumphed gloriously ove all the obsticles that have been intentionally thrown in our way, notwithstanding I do so often feel my utter unworthiness to fill this position, when I see the magnitude of the field so great and mostly occupied by those sowing tares, and the labors for right so few, it appears an opening to great for me. But we read that God chooses the weak things of the world