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Here this house will stand a prominent object, and be seen from afar on the ocean, greeting the eye of the sick sailor or the timid, tremulous emigrant, assuring both that, although they approach the shores of Africa, yet the religion of Jesus here, as everywhere else, mitigates the pestilence, heals the sick and the diseased, comforts the miserable and the outcast, and is full of healing, consolation, and of love! "May the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish Thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it!"
