A LITTLE MORE PIETY.

Dear Douglass: — A few days ago, I attended a Missionary Meeting in Rome, N.Y., where a resolution was discussed, in substance, like this: "All that is necessary to make us more successful in making proselytes of the heathen, is more piety."

My business there was to get a notice of an Anti-Slavery meeting read; but I was told that they could not read it. They related some thrilling stories of the people in Bengal. One story that pleased the missionaries very much was, that some one, some where, at some time or other, gave a Catholic girl a Bible, which she read with much pleasure, until her priest became acquainted with the fact, who made her carry it back. This they thought was an unpardonable sin. Oh that I could find words to express my indignation! Do they not know that every Bible they have handled since they have been on their mission, has been in part purchased with the blood of the slave? And if they were honest, they would write on the lid of every Bible, "The price of the blood and souls of those who are not allowed to read it."

Oh what a happy land of missionaries and slaves, Bibles and handcuffs, Bible pedlers and men pedlers, all belonging to the same church! Of all the horrible things that the sun ever shone upon, a baby-stealing, woman-whipping, man-murdering and war-making religion is the most horrible. These men are leaving scenes of suffering here at home; to go to a land where the introduction of them would not for one minute be tolerated. One of the speakers asked his hearers to read the 12th chapter of Rev. He might with great propriety have said the 18th. "I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues; for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities, for trading in slaves and the souls of men." Let us suppose those missionaries’ wives and children were now clanking their chains in India. Would they tell us that they had business of greater importance than their deliverance from whips, and chains, and slavery, to attend to? Would they hail the man that held them as a good Christian and a brother?

Yours for the truth,

JOHN S. JACOBS.