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If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly. Jupiter Hammon

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime? Jupiter Hammon

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth. Jupiter Hammon

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful. Jupiter Hammon

It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out. Jupiter Hammon

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war. Jupiter Hammon

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever. Jupiter Hammon

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers. Jupiter Hammon

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read. Jupiter Hammon

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is. Jupiter Hammon