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reliable in every respect than sinners, so he and his brother made it a point to do more and better work than any of the other slaves around the farm. The Allens never allowed anything to get in the way of their services to their master and so well did they attend to their duties that their master would insist on them attending religious meetings each week regularly. The gospel seen in the Allens’ lives knitted their master to the beauty of the cross shown in the living epistles walking daily before him. Richard ventured at last to ask his master’s permission to hold prayer meeting at his home which was granted. This worked so well he went further and requested him to allow him to have a preacher come there and preach, this was also granted and we hear the Rev. Freeborn Garrettson lifting up his voice like a mighty trumpet preaching from that ever convincing text “Thou art weighed in the balance and art found wanting.” So stinging was the sermon that master Chew saw that human slavery was wrong still he did not have the courage to free his slaves outright without money and without price. However, he did propose to allow the Allen boys to purchase freedom at