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VI.—SLAVE PREACHING.
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Vi.—Slave Preaching.
VI . —SLAVE PREACHING .
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, , there The colored at half church past two , where to see I the went Sunday this afternoon school . haunts Saw a me prett . y I little was
- nice delicate little white fellows girl . teaching Tke little 1 _fiye or l w six as little ten ears boys , wooll ld , and y h eaded pu bu pils t gy
them ing eight lier . or w I nin hite never e ; hands you saw should over a prettier their have black si seen ght forehe . her You littl ads think black e and motherl wool of with Eva y to ways that encourage . So , lovel pass did
of Christ I ! God In -like ' another s jud expression gments pew a towards fine of noble young the patience black righteous , ( , quite "was : he telling was , ) very a class not simp of reward le boys and y
eloquent , but quite on the wrong tack , because God does all After even the with school gold came medals the in service this world . I sat , quite humbl the down reverse on . a back y
moved seat , a into negro a said hi " Ma lier ' am , go but forward not quite to in the advance front , ma ; the ' am negroes , " so I up
in the pew said pew " Go g to the front , seat . " I said " No thank but wh ?"
Whv ! because whites you , don't like y to sit with blacks . " " "" I am English , not American ! "
Then they sang , He sends Ms word of truth and love
" Jehovah To all tlie is nation resolved s from to show above ; V --
—What his Almighty power can do . " Etc . * - the feeling I office thoug with of ht which a so bishop when it was I he heard listened desireth the to sermon . a good The , text and work was saw . " , the " The If real a black man reli desire g man ious
preached and eloquence upon , , the then character he , spoke of of a the good perfect pastor pastor very , well and , of with asp iven feeling iration with
in all to be like him . One sentence was remarkable and g an astounding power of expression : " The master passion of man is to imitate God "
. I think he believed it , and that it was felt as true by his flock . After he sat clownnotices were readone was " The Panorama of
, ; Europe and talked will to be the opened women for who colored were people much on Monday enchanted . " witlL I stayed me . very
, I was the only white there . January 10 th .
At five o ' clock went into the black church ; there were eight hundred or a thousand slave or freeand a wliite man
preaching a sermon about negroes the jud , gment day , describing , the tortures of the damned . The negroes shrieked and howled , and repeated the
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/42/
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