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like Dr. Young's good man, we may say with him, "Here is firm footing—solid ground," and so far as our belief and reception of the truth is concerned, may also add with him, "All else is sea beside; his hand the good man fastens on the sky, then bid earth roll nor feel its idle whirl."
We now regard the Church as fairly under way, launched forth upon the ocean of life, freighted with immortal souls bound for the shores of immortality and heavenly bliss. Oh, what a thought is this, an infant Church, to go out on the ocean of life to contend with the furious storms incidental to life, and the management of it intrusted to mortal hands. Well might the minister exclaim with Paul, "Who is sufficient for these things?" With John Gloucester and his faithful few, in view of all their difficulties, from "this time there was one determination, and that was, to "work while it was day," to work amid every opposing force, each one adopting the Christian's decision:—
"In every trouble sharp and strong,
My soul to' Jesus flies;
My anchor hold is firm in Him
When swelling billows rise."
The first two elders elected by the people to assist Mr. Gloucester in the spiritual wants of the Church, were Messrs. James Prosser and Cato Freeman. These continued to labor until the growing wants of the Church called for more laborers in this particular department of the Lord's vineyard, when Mr. Quamany Clarkson, a member of Dr. Janeway's Church, a man of piety, was importuned, and finally consented to join the African Church, and give himself to the work as an Elder there- in he was accordingly set apart for the office by Mr. Gloucester, through the call of the people. For years
