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Show An Edueated Chief In We. I Afric a. Kev. Alexander Cromwell. of Liberia, writes to the Ajricun Ivrpnsitortj an account of a visit to Crocker, the chiet of Little Hurra. He was taught by Pr. A aughan, an Episcopal missionary, but became a Baptist, and was for a season employed as a missionary by the Southern Board, lie now supports sup-ports himself by his trade ol' black-smithing. black-smithing. Cromwell says : "Being the son of the la:e king, and himself the chief personage in the neighborhood, his word is iaw among all the great chiefs, and li s authority undisputed. His influence for Christianity Chris-tianity has been great, and numbers of his people have been c"r,vertrd. At an evening service held hon several of the native Christian were present, and listened with attention to the lemarks I adtli'esH'd to them. Crocker prrarhes to his people every Sunday, and has a congregation of from rilir m ixiy per-son per-son native. ' |