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"Black Jacob," a monument of grace the life of Jacob Hodges, an African Negro, who died in Canandaigua, N.Y., February 1842 , an annotated digital edition

Page 10

p. 10

V; PREFACE.
for crime, and no encouragement given to such
as may be repeating the hazardous experiment
of indulged depravity. While one abandoned
sinner lives to repent, thousands die incorrigi¬
ble. While the grace of God reaches and
secures one from the sentence of death, thou¬
sands are abandoned to the wages of unright
eousness, to reap forever the fruit of theu
crimes.