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Quote by George Lisle
Desiring to prove the sense I had of my obligations to God, I endeavoured to instruct the people of my own colour in the word of God.
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The speaker says his sense of duty toward God led him to teach other people of his own racial background about God’s word. In this way, instruction became an expression of his religious obligation. The wording presents this effort as a deliberate response to what he believed he owed to God.
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- Nonconformist and Dissenting Studies, 1650–1850
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