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Superintendent was pleased with his anxiety to learn, and took pains to procure him instruction on week days also.  He applied diligently, and soon was able to read and write ; and what was far better, from the instructions he received, he was brought to love the Bible and the truths it contained.
9. If any of your little readers feel tired of their lessons I hope they will think of the "Sweep and the Tombstones ;" and I hope, also, that like him they will learn the best wisdom, "For the soul to be without knowledge is not good ;" but it is of very little use to be able to read and write, if they remain ignorant of Christ, or only repeats texts and chapters by rote.  Then "incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding ;—if thou seekest for her as for hid treasures, then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God." Prov. ii. 2, 4, 5. ANN G.

 1. BENJAMIN BANNAKER, a negro of Maryland, went to Philadelphia, and without any other encouragement than his desire for acquiring knowledge, without books, except for the works of Ferguson, and the Table of Tobias Mayer, he applied himself to astronomy, and published almanacs for the years 1794 and 1795 at Philadelphia ; in which were calculated and exhibited the different aspects of the planets, a table of the motions of the sun and moon, their risings and settings, and the courses of the bodies of the planetary system.  Bannaker has received his freedom. 

Anecdote of two Negroes in France. 

1. In the most flourishing period of the reign of Louis XIV., two negro youths, the sons of a prince, being brought to the court of France, the king appoint-

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ed a Jesuit to instruct them in letters and in the Christian religion ; and gave to each of them a commission in his guards.—The elder who was remarkable for candour and ingenuity, made great improvements, more particularly in the doctrines of religion. 
2. A brutal officer, upon some dispute, insulted him with a blow.  The gallant youth never so much as offered to resent it.  A person who was his friend took an opportunity to talk with him that evening alone upon his behaviour, which he told him was too tame, especially in a soldier.  "Is there then," said the young African, "one revelation for soldiers, and another for merchants and gownsmen? The good father to whom I owe all my knowledge, has earnestly inculcated in me forgiveness of injuries; assuring me that a Christian was by no means to retaliate abuses of any kind."
3. "The good father," replied his friend, "may fit you for a monastery, by his lessons, but never for the army and the rules of a court.  In a word," continued he, "if you do not call the colonel to an account, you will be branded with the infamy of cowardice, and have your commission taken from you." "I would fain," said the young man, "act consistently in every thing; but since you press me with that regard to my honour, which you have always shewn, I will wipe off so foul a stain ; though I must own I gloried in it before."
4. Immediately upon this, he desired his friend to go from him and appoint the aggressor to meet him early in the morning.  Accordingly they met and fought, and the brave African youth disarmed his adversary, and forced him to ask his pardon publicly.  This done, the next day he threw up his commission, and desired the king's leave to return to his father. 
5. At parting he embraced his brother and his friends, with tears in his eyes, saying, "he did not imagine the Christians had been such an unaccountable people; and that he could not apprehend their faith was of any use to them, and if it did not influence their practice.  In my country, we think it no dishonour to act according to the principles of our religion."