143] slave’s FBIEND.' 3 , TRUST IN GOD. Behola the fowls of the air! Consider the lilies of the field ! Matt. vi, 26, 30. And shall the fowls be daily fed by thee? And wilt thou clothe the lilies, and not me ? Begone, distrust! I shall be daily fed, ~ While lilies flourish, and while birds are fed.' S'TEPHEN TO MARY.' Found in Mary Walton's work-box, after the decease of Stephen Ricks, who died at the Shelter for colored Orphans, * in the Udihonth, 1832. * This Shelter for Colored Orphans is in Philadelphia. Some account of it was given in the Slave’s Friend No. 7. It was built by the Society of Friends. ' Mary, once I feared to go From a world of care and woe; But thou taught me how to die- How to fix my hopes on high; Bade my childish fears depart, And revived my trembling heart; Told me in a heavenly land. With a chosen seraph band, I should join in singing praise. And my feeble anthems raise. Yes! thou taught a little child, With affection meek and miid, That his home was far above, In a land of peace and love; Told me Jesus sweetly smiled On a humble, sable child.
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