But who can affix the adequate price to a human soul?
"What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?" The principles of ordinary arithmetic all fail here; and we are constrained to say, that He alone who paid the ransom for sinners, and made the souls of men his "purchased possession," can comprehend and solve the arduous question.

They are, indeed, "bought with a price," but are "not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." We shall only ascertain the value of a soul, when we shall be fully able to estimate the worth of a Saviour.
Too often have we been obliged to hear what is the price which sordid, unfeeling avarice has affixed to the _body_ of a poor Negro slave; let us now attempt, while we pursue the foregoing narrative, to meditate on the value which Infinite Mercy has attached to his _soul_.
Not many days after my first interview with my Negro disciple, I went from home with the design of visiting and conversing with him again at his master's house, which was situated in a part of the parish nearly four miles distant from my own.

The road which I took lay over a lofty down, which commands a prospect of scenery seldom exceeded in beauty and magnificence.

It gave birth to silent but instructive contemplation.
The down itself was covered with sheep, grazing on its wholesome and plentiful pasture.

Here and there a shepherd's boy kept his appointed station, and watched over the flock committed to his care.