him safe out of all—­Myself and brethren were at Mr. Liele’s Chapel a few weeks ago at the funeral of one of his elders, he is well, and we were friendly together.  All our brethren unite with me in giving their most Christian love to you, and all the dear beloved brethren in your church in the best bonds, and beg, both yourself and them, will be pleased to remember the Ethiopian Baptists in their prayers, and I remain dear Sir, and brother,

Your poor unworthy brother, in the Lord Jesus Christ,

(Signed) Thomas Nicholas Swigle.

P.S.  These sugar estates, in the parish where Brother Baker resides, are very large and extensive; and they have three to four hundred slaves on each property.

—­Baptist Annual Register, 1800-1802, pages 1144-1146.

FOOTNOTES: 

[1] The Rev. Mr. George Whitefield’s intimate friend.

[2] The Editor of the Baptist Annual Register said that he had not the honor of a correspondence with this respectable minister but that his name stood thus in the Georgia Association of 1788.  At “Kioka, Abraham Marshall, 22 baptized, 230” members in all.

[3] The character of Mr. Jonathan Clarke, according to the writer, might be learned at May and Hill’s, merchants, Church-row, Fenchurch-street.

[4] It was committed to the care of the Editor of the Baptist Annual Register.

[5] The Rev. Mr. Johnson was well known in London; he sailed for America in the fall of 1790; and laboured in the Orphan House at Savannah, built by Mr. Whitefield, and assigned in trust to the countess of Huntingdon.  On May 30, 1775, the orphan house building caught fire and was entirely consumed, except the two wings which still remained.  Editor of the Baptist Annual Register.

BOOK REVIEWS

The Haitian Revolution, 1791 to 1804.  By T. G. Steward.  Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1915. 292 pages. $1.25.

In the days when the internal dissensions of Haiti are again thrusting her into the limelight such a book as this of Mr. Steward assumes a peculiar importance.  It combines the unusual advantage of being both very readable and at the same time historically dependable.  At the outset the author gives a brief sketch of the early settlement of Haiti, followed by a short account of her development along commercial and racial lines up to the Revolution of 1791.  The story of this upheaval, of course, forms the basis of the book and is indissolubly connected with the story of Toussaint L’Overture.  To most Americans this hero is known only as the subject of Wendell Phillips’s stirring eulogy.  As delineated by Mr. Steward, he becomes a more human creature, who performs exploits, that are nothing short of marvelous.  Other men who have seemed to many of us merely names—­Rigaud, Le Clerc, Desalines, and the like—­are also fully discussed.